DHS out of DC commo loop

Shaun Waterman of The Washington Times writes that local and Federal law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia will be linked up by the new Integrated Wireless Network. Well, except the agencies that fall under the Homeland Security Department;

“You need someone to be in charge and you need a place to put the money,” said the former official, “DHS had neither.”

The component agencies within DHS, like the Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), each have their own legacy communications systems, and there was no power center in the department that could force them to work together on modernization.

See, I was confused. I thought that the Homeland Security Department was formed to solve the interoperability problems that plagued the law enforcement community before 9-11. I guess that I didn’t take into account that there were larger problems to be solved by HSD than homeland security. Problems like unharassed airline passengers and returning veterans becoming terrorists.

Category: Liberals suck, Terror War