Metro Spirit national security blog

Homeland Security contracting is a mess, says a consultant's confidential audit reported in the Washington Post. That's not exactly a revelation, at this point, but there are some nice details in the story. For example: "At the outset, the team of acquisition specialists could not locate 33 of the 72 contract files it had selected for the review, so the consultants had to select 33 others."

Memo to Chertoff: Blame the consultants.

No, wait. Blame the Washington Post.