DHS' Cheese Whiz

Did I read this story in The Hill correctly? I can't believe I did. Because it says that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., has charged that DHS has so many vacancies in key positions that it resembles Swiss cheese. And that former DHS Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson actually wrote the following words to Thompson in a letter of response:

DHS’s leadership team would more fairly be compared to a fully intact wheel of the undisputed king of cheeses, Parmigiano Reggiano, carefully nurtured to maturity and ripe for superlative service. The number of unencumbered positions … is virtually nil.