DHS, Dysfunctional as Usual

—By Jonathan Stein

| Wed Feb. 7, 2007 7:30 AM PST

With news that Dick Cheney's son-in-law is the primary culprit in a Department of Homeland Security effort to block any oversight, I thought I'd point you all to this chart we drew up last year. Follow the link and you'll find that many DHS workers are so unhappy with their jobs, they'd probably rather be working fast-food.

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