On September 11, 2001 the world changed. The US government realized they had all the pieces of the puzzle before the attack on America but did not see the whole picture: the warning sign of the terror to come.
President Bush tried to reform the federal bureaucracy dealing with the national security. Unfortunately instead of improving communications between the existing departments he created a new bureaucracy: the Department of National Security that was composed from agencies taken away from various departments.
The US spent over 7 billion dollars on accommodation of the new Department. Instead of spending those money on communication improvement the federal government wasted it on new office desks and draperies, drawing pictures for new department seal and medals and all kind of construction and design activities.
Was it worth it?
Letâ??s see how the DHS performed during the second attack on US soil since 9/11: the Christmas Day bomber. Abdul Mutallabâ??s father told the name of the terrorist to the US embassy in Nigeria almost a month before the attack. The embassy sent the name to the State Department. If Bush didnâ??t create the DHS, the State Department would have been responsible for revoking the terroristâ??s US visa. However Bush added a new layer of bureaucracy and Hillary Clintonâ??s people sent the message to the Department of Homeland Security and there nobody acted on it. Somebody mumbled that Mutallabâ??s name was misspelled in the process. No kidding!
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