One of President Obama’s former protectors, Daniel Bongino, an ex-Secret Service agent and currently a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Maryland, told The Daily Caller he’d like to see Justice Department reform so “debacles” like Operation Fast and Furious don’t happen again.
Bongino recommends consolidating different DOJ agencies, like the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He describes an “overly bureaucratic” system in place now, and says it has to be streamlined so the officials who make decisions are the ones who are held accountable for them.
“We have to have these different agencies explain why exactly we have this overly bureaucratic mechanism,” Bongino said in a phone interview. “Why do you need a separate and distinct department with three and four different levels of management, to do something that frankly, can be done with some of the existing structures we have now if you were to be incorporated.”
Bongino stresses that he isn’t recommending laying off law enforcement agents, but rather quashing the bureaucracy and territorial self-protection political officials at the various agencies regularly partake in. “You have levels of management that don’t want to be the ones to put out the fire,” Bongino said. “So what they do is they assume the last guy okayed it and it gets kicked up the chain again.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/11/former-secret-service-agent-senate-candidate-justice-dept-reform-needed-to-prevent-future-%e2%80%98debacles%e2%80%99-like-fast-and-furious/#ixzz1aV2OCePk
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