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Homeland insecurity

In ten years of operation, the unwieldy Department of Homeland Security and its science directorate have seriously underperformed, says Peter D. Zimmerman.

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Zimmerman, P. Homeland insecurity. Nature 477, 153–154 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/477153a

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  1. It is unsurprising that the DHS has not performed well, given that the motivation for creating it was emotional and political, not rational &#8211 public fear and the wish to be seen doing something. The speed at which it was created is another reason for the dysfunction: essentially, the different agencies were relabelled as subunits of the new DHS.

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