Failure Foretold

Susan B. Glasser and Michael Grunwald, Washington Post, Dec. 22, 2005: "To some extent, the [Homeland Security] department was set up to fail."

Anne Laurent, Government Executive, June 10, 2002: "The dirty little secret about the hastily and secretly composed Homeland Security Department proposal is that it is almost certainly doomed to fail. The sad truth is that it's all but a done deal."