DHS efficiency

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has no shortage of critics, but few are as fierce – or as informed – as former Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who retired from Congress this month.

In one of his final acts before he left Washington, the former ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee dropped a scathing oversight report that says, in essence, the department is an incompetent mess.

DHS has five primary missions: enforcing immigration law, securing the border, preventing terrorism, safeguarding cyberspace and strengthening national preparedness. According to Coburn, it does none of them well.

“Based upon the available evidence, DHS is not successfully executing any of its five main missions,” Coburn wrote in the report’s introduction. “Many of DHS’s programs, in fact, are ineffective and should be reconsidered.”

 9 months later, Homeland Security still a black hole