David Frum

Now, understood that their operation was distinct from the Trump operation.

And that's one of the reasons they're in trouble.

It's like the Sopranos.

They forgot to put the cash in the envelope for Tony and ran their own grift without telling Tony about it.

And as everyone remembers, you get whacked.

But it will raise the question, if law is allowed to take its course, if Pam Bondi doesn't protect Lewandowski and Noem, if taking bribes at DHS in the millions and tens of millions is wrong, why is taking bribes at the White House in the hundreds of millions and billions okay?

Well, can we pause there because I don't want to get too far to the Iran news.

The United States is now engaged in a global war spanning from the Caspian to the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean against the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, so designated year after year by the U.S.

State Department.

The leading state-sponsored terrorism uses a lot of terrorism, and Iran has a long history of activating terror networks all over the world, including in the United States.

So you would think it would be, for the administration leading the war, a matter of vital concern to have a non-bozo as head of the Department of Homeland Security and maybe also a non-bozo at the FBI.

But while...

Telling everyone that one of the reasons that the United States needs to fight Iran is the threat of terrorism.

How unserious about terrorism are you if you put this team of bozos in charge of defending the homeland against terror attack?

So let me just remind people why the Department of Homeland Security was created.

And maybe it wasn't a good idea, but here was the logic back in the Bush days.

When the 9-11 investigations were conducted, one of the things that was found was that the CIA had possessed a lot of the information, maybe sufficient information, necessary to prevent the 9-11 attack.

But the CIA had no operating ability to do anything about it.

The FBI did have the operating ability to do something about it, but it didn't have the information.

And the reason that they didn't have the information, it was not just a bureaucratic screw up.