Everyone should know when the government creates a new department you are going to suffer for it.

The DHS was a mistake from the start as was all of the reactionary legislation. It always is, no matter what the emergency.

We are perhaps marginally safer flying today than we were in 2001, but that is debatable. All they needed to do was stop box cutters from being legal to transport and to restaff airport security with US nationals rather than recent immigrants.

We then went after two repressive regimes because there was no place else to look, unless we wanted to go back to Somalia or into Sudan.

We have spent billions on hi-tech toys but no one is any safer and all of us have and are sacrificing our liberties for it.