Didn't Bush opposed Homeland Security Director as Cabinet post?

[flpoljunkie]

And didn't Bush flip-flop on this, too? After it would not fly with the 9-11 family members and the American people?

The 9-11 Commission felt that the National Director of Intelligence needed the clout that comes with a Cabinet position to to able to deal effectively with the 14 intelligence agencies.

Making the NDI a cabinet member also makes the President more directly responsible for intelligence failures--perhaps a responsbility that President bush is also unwilling to accept.

[flpoljunkie]

1. Yes, and here it is! Flip-Flop #11, Department of Homeland Security

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=42263

11. Department of Homeland Security

BUSH OPPOSES THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY..."So, creating a Cabinet office doesn't solve the problem. You still will have agencies within the federal government that have to be coordinated. So the answer is that creating a Cabinet post doesn't solve anything."

...BUSH SUPPORTS THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY "So tonight, I ask the Congress to join me in creating a single, permanent department with an overriding and urgent mission: securing the homeland of America and protecting the American people."

[mdguss]

2. Joe Lieberman:

Is the one who got that to become a cabinet post.