Another list from the Dept of Homeland Security!

In the same article in The Washington Post Arkin goes on with anther list the Homeland Security folks have brought us - this one listing priorities for "Intelligence/Information requirements." Here is his conclusion about it:

Ten pages of "priority" intelligence requirements, a list that suggests thoughtfulness and government action actually has the opposite effect of its purpose. No true priorities can really be divined from the endless mass. Like the National Assets Database, it is undifferentiated and useless.

This "For Official Use Only" document, in all of its seeming completeness, does convey the overall message that there is a real and present "threat" in these United States. It is more interesting for the insight it provides into the mindset of the homeland security goons.

No wonder the New York Daily News opined this morning that the Department of Homeland Security is a "blundering behemoth of a bureaucracy with less sense than a mule or a groundhog."

Now I don't know about Homeland Security or much of anything else, except what happened to the Roman Empire, but I can certainly see that "Intelligence" certainly is a desired requirement. May they acquire some soon.

postscript: At least the groundhogs had enough sense to get listed as a national asset.