[Infowarrior] - Homeland Security HQ to move into loony bin

[Richard Forno]

Homeland Security to move into loony bin
By Michael Hampton
Posted: March 20, 2007 12:34 pm
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/03/20/homeland-security-to-move-into-lo
ony-bin/

The Department of Homeland Security is moving its headquarters to a lunatic
asylum. As Dave Barry is fond of saying, I am not making this up.

Under a plan projected to cost $3 billion, beginning in 2011 DHS will begin
moving most of its 60 Washington, D.C.-based offices to a new building it
will construct on the grounds of St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum
still in operation in Washington.

St. Elizabeths Hospital holds the dubious distinction of being the first
federally sponsored mental hospital in the country, according to its web
site.

    The U.S. Coast Guard will be the first element of the DHS to move into
the new building in 2011, department Spokesman Larry Orluskie told United
Press International.

    The DHS¹s headquarters functions will follow in 2013, and the other
components slated for centralization will move in after that.

    Orluskie said that the U.S. Secret Service, the biometric system for
tracking foreign visitors called U.S.-VISIT, the new Domestic Nuclear
Detection Office, the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services and the DHS Science and Technology Directorate will
probably remain in their current locations. ‹ United Press International

It somehow seems fitting that the Department of Homeland Security, based on
a loony premise, should move into a loony bin.