PAPER: Turf Wars, Low Morale Plague Dept. of Homeland Security

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http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3hs.htm

PAPER: Turf Wars, Low Morale Plague Dept. of Homeland Security
Tue Feb 01 2005 20:24:25 ET

As its leadership changes for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by personality conflicts, bureaucratic bottlenecks (The Constitution???) and an atmosphere of demoralization, undermining its ability to protect the nation against terrorist attack, the WASHINGTON POST will claim on Wednesday.

Reporter John Mintz has filed a story running thousands of words on the agency, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. Editors are planning a Page One splash on the morning of the president's State of the Union address.

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Although the 22-month-old department has vast powers over the lives of travelers, immigrants and citizens, it remains a second-tier agency in the clout it commands within President Bush's Cabinet. Pockets of dysfunction are scattered throughout the 180,000-employee agency.

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As its leadership changes for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by personality conflicts, bureaucratic bottlenecks (The Constitution???) and an atmosphere of demoralization, undermining its ability to protect the nation against terrorist attack, the WASHINGTON POST will claim on Wednesday.

Bottlenecks more like, "Whose training program will we use? Border Patrol? Customs? other?" and such. The Border Patrol, in part due to the switch to DHS and these sorts of questions, haven't run an academy class in about a year.