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Ya that's right! Let's have the Department of Homeland Security focusing on what's in someone's pants and not, you know. HOMELAND FUCKING SECURITY!?
But in all seriousness. Why does that department even exists? I'm sure their work is covered by the FBI and CIA just fine.
9/11, fear, turrists, freedom fries, 'murica. Things in the early 2000s got weird.
I am deeply sorry to gen-z and younger. They will never know what the US was like before the stupid times. For them, this is normal.
I'm squarely millenial and I don't even really know what it was like before the stupid times.
Imgaine if not everything and everywhere was 100% focused on tracking where you go who you talk to and what you do.
Like that. But with lo-res games.
I walked into Canada without any ID. Boarder guards asked "You American?" I answered yup and they waved me through.
From a Canadian perspective:
As a child (not even a teen), my friend and I would travel to the US alone, on a bus, with only our birth certificates and some hockey cards. We would walk to the arena and wait around to try to get autographs.
As a teen/20's we would pile in a car, drive across the border to bars or see concerts or afterhours clubs.
There used to be 20,000 american kids every weekend coming across here because the drinking age is 19 vs 21 over there.
Also, selfies and cellphones didn't exist yet.
I have vague memories of getting into Canada with a fake ID my Dad made when I was really young. 😁
In the wake of 9/11 it reported that the FBI/CIA/NSA all some information about the attacks before they happened, but no single one of them had enough of it to figure out what exactly was going to happen and when, and had no dedicated channels for coordinating on that sort of thing.
DHS was then (theoretically) created to solve that problem.
Sounds to me like poor leadership and communication from other departments. Creating a whole new department when emails, phone calls, meetings, and generally giving a shit would solve the problem is waste we can do something about.
At the scale those agencies operate at that sort of coordination requires a level of bureaucracy, especially when you consider that we're talking about intelligence agencies who are often, by the very nature of their jobs, looking at vague incomplete pictures of things.
We're not talking about 3 or 4 agencies here, we're talking more like 25 so without some sort of centralized department even knowing who you may need to email about any one thing is easier said than done. (And that's keeping in mind that with just a small bit of a picture that the thing you want to talk to someone about could be nothing.)
That's not to say that there's no bloat in the US intelligence apparatus, but your comment feels like a wild oversimplification of the problem the agency was intended to address
If our intelligence agencies are too bloated to even communicate or form a joint task force to resolve basic issues like sharing information than the last thing we need is another agency/department. Yes it's very complex but not on this issue. It's there anything the DHS is doing that is unique or not already covered by another department?