So after numerous failures to upgrade, coordinate, and empower our force of dipshit agents we call Homeland Security, it seems that Bush is convinced we just need more frosting on the timebomb despite so many expensive decisions leading no-where.

Hinting at a blossoming future of freedom's past, this section of a NYT post on the subject makes me feel security blanket warm and fuzzy inside:

General Michael V. Hayden, the deputy director of national intelligence, said the government would take steps to ensure that the changes did not impinge on American civil liberties. But in a briefing for reporters, General Hayden also said that the United States no longer had the luxury of maintaining divisions between its foreign and domestic intelligence structures, because "our enemy does not recognize that distinction."

But why are we fixing the ever-broke intelligence agencies yet again you hopefully ask?

These are the findings of the WMD commission, so named for that really big fuck up in intelligence that led America to believe we had every legal right to invade Iraq. Of course documents like the Downing Street Memo do tend to shed more light on why intelligence agencies are considered irrelevant but this commission has decided we need a special office designed just so the FBI and CIA can share that doctored data.

Yay for America, we're safe at last from terrorists even though the agency we're giving this office to just blew $100,000,000 on technology upgrades that were found to be very poor investments.

Yay for bank robbers, kidnappers, electronic fraudsters, mobsters, and everyone else who will continue enjoying that calculated freedom from justice that is the manual following intelligence agency of these United States.

Guardian story here...

Presidential WMD panel's findings here...

March 31st Recommendation to fix FBI/CIA problem here...

Camp Bush Responds with this...

World Tribunal: Findings of Jury of Conscience here... (spoiler, they think the US should be punished for invading Iraq)