Meant everything to those who find speeches and slogans to be satisfactory for emotional comfort. But creating an ineffective organization did little to put the rest of us at ease. We need intelligence, talent, patience, aptitude, and efficiency- qualities that this president nor his new creation really exhibit. And the real politically-incorrect thing believed in DC that no one says publicly is that there are too many almost-CIA's and almost-FBI's in Homeland Security. . .in other words, less talented people who weren't good enough to break in without a sweeping mandate from arguably one of the least gifted presidents of recent memory.