Expensive Homeland Security

Doyle McManus, a frequent guest on the PBS show Washington Week, writes for the Los Angeles Times. His column deals with the idea that we're now spending too much on homeland security. I particularly like this quote:

There's no such thing as too much security. But there is such a thing as security that's too expensive.

McManus gives examples where "terrorism" was used as an obviously phony excuse to extract money from the government.