No Homeland CEO.

Thank you, Fred Kaplan of Slate, for pointing out that what the Homeland Security Department needs right now is not a tough cop like Bernie Kerik (even if he wasn't ethically challenged), but a skilled CEO to manage the ongoing merger of the 22 agencies that were mashed together to create the department. The extreme unlikelihood that such a candidate is even under serious consideration speaks volumes about the political leadership of the federal bureaucracy.