Correcting Homeland Security corruption

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Washington Times:

With new leadership comes new vision. As President Obama mulls over his options for some new faces in his Cabinet, he would be wise to take a page from another revered president of the left. In 1960, President-elect Kennedy had the foresight to select a former bean-counter who had worked his way up to be president of Ford Motor Co. to run his Department of Defense.

Although Robert S. McNamara remains a controversial figure because of his leadership during the Vietnam War, he single-handedly reformed how the Pentagon did business. He quickly became one of the stars of the Kennedy team, offering advice to the young president in areas of business and the economy as well as national security. The day after being sworn in, McNamara explained to a New York Times reporter that his job at the Pentagon was “to bring efficiency to a $40 billion enterprise beset by jealousies and political pressures while maintaining American military superiority.”

McNamara wasted no time challenging the Pentagon’s top brass by establishing elaborate controls over department resources and refusing to spend funds for weapon systems he did not approve. He consolidated seven of the Defense Department’s assistant secretary posts into five and created a new Office of Management, Planning and Organization Studies. He applied the same business principles from his years at Ford Motor Co. to the department and created a Planning, Programming and Budget System that enabled leadership to project the first five-year budget in the department’s history.