Earlier this year the House Committee on Homeland Security issued a report card on the department it oversees.
Five years after the attacks that changed our Nation, America remains on alert.
America’s ability to field and deploy new technology is critical to the Long War.
Our Nation’s first responders still have trouble communicating among themselves.
While the Congress acted promptly on Commission recommendations to restructure the Executive Branch, and while we have so far succeeded in preventing any further terrorist attacks in the United States, Congress has done little to reform itself.
It should be an independent agency with a direct line to the President.
We should focus more on what it does than where it goes.