When Congress returns from its August recess, topping its agenda will be consideration of a new Department of Homeland Security. Indeed, some are pressing for final passage of legislation creating the mammoth new federal agency by Sept. 11. On balance, I believe we are just as likely to be able to protect ourselves, and more likely over the long haul to preserve our fundamental liberties, if we don’t create a massive new bureaucracy whose principal mission is as all-encompassing, amorphous, and alluring as “homeland security.”
Don’t get me wrong. I understand that the threat to our domestic security is real and long-term. There are terrorists and rogue states that want to strike at America — again. President George W. Bush had it right in his July 16 report “National Strategy for Homeland Security,” when he said, “The terrorist threat to America takes many forms, has many places to hide, and is often invisible.”
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