I got a gut feeling, a creepy gut, feeling.

So the head, Chief, big babboo, of Home Land Security, Michael Chertoff, made a statement that he had a "gut feeling", that we are about to head into a heightened state of national security. He went on to say that "I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk," and "Summertime seems to be appealing to them," as well as talking about the fact that there is, "not of a specific threat, but of increased vulnerability,". This is the head of Homeland Security people, he isn't supposed to have "gut feelings", or even good ideas about things, a security agency should deal in facts, not fantasy. I swear it feels like they are gloating about something. "We could easily be attacked," Chertoff added. "The intent to attack us remains as strong as it was on Sept. 10, 2001.", another zinger from Chertoff. If we can be attacked as easily now as in 2001, I guess I gotta ask, What exactly is your organization doing? Didn't we already have the F.B.I., C.I.A., N.S.A. and all those other various and sundry black ops organizations that our country built up during the cold war? If all those guys before them didn't do any good and now the new guys are failing, why are we wasting tax payers money to fund failure? How can you base the future of our nations security on a hunch? I don't get it, that's like me basing an all in, high stakes poker hand on the fact that I ate a bad burrito and I am gassy. Our government is using playground politics and it's deciding our future. On a playground even the most poorly educated, unintelligent, gawky buffoons could be picked for a game, even before the talented, or athletic kids just because the knew the captain idiot. Our current state of affairs seems to be about the same to me. Gut feelings and hunches only really count in low stakes situations or in loose cannon cop movies. When you are dealing with all this homeland security stuff, I, personally would prefer that they deal with information, reality and, god forbid, actual facts. I just wanted to bitch about that, thank you.