TAP: Web Feature: The Barn Door:. by John Prados. June 7, 2002.

Initial impressions may be misleading, but it appears the department will advance security in just one way: By unifying border controls at entry points to the United States and combining this activity with aviation security and emergency response. At the same time, the plan threatens to weaken United States security in at least three other ways: By establishing a new agency that will compete for the homeland defense mission; by drafting offices and services from all over our government and combining them willy-nilly into a new entity; and by creating fresh cross-cutting competition among elements of the U.S. government.