rexi@rexi@mastodon.social
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Act_of_2002#cite_note-U.S._Government_Printing_Office-9
I had a bad feeling in my gut about this back when W. signed it into law in the paranoid wake of 9/11
How it got turned around to be a tool of an #authoritarianregime: no mystery.
The original compartmentalized nature of many smaller agencies also gave it a different kind of strength, it turns out.
Those inherent checks and balances are now more than absent, they are turned on their head.