"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Hindsight in Lieu of Foresight: Corruption Among Border Officials was Foreseeable, Preventable
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2011-04-10 03:00
"Gosh, how could anyone have predicted this outcome? Unless, of course, they read this Grits post when the Bush-era hiring expansion was launched, in which this blog argued: Seriously - if you were a cartel leader, wouldn't you be manufacturing phony ID papers and sending in your lieutenants to apply for these slots as quick as you could? And do you think the Bush Homeland Security department will handle vetting 10,000 new agents any more competently than, say, the response to Hurrcane Katrina?"
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