The Department of Homeland Security needs to be renamed the Department Who Cried Wolf. They are trying to get more money because of the homemade explosive devises are a “rising threat” in United States.  From the Washington Post:

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI agree that the homemade explosive devices that have wreaked havoc in Iraq pose a rising threat to the United States. But lawmakers and first responders say the Bush administration has been slow to devise a strategy for countering the weapons and has not provided adequate money and training for a concerted national effort.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who told the Senate last month that such bombs are terrorists’ “weapon of choice,” said yesterday at a local meeting that President Bush will soon issue a blueprint for countering the threat of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. Chertoff’s department said in a draft report on IEDs earlier this year that national efforts “lack strategic guidance, are sometimes insufficiently coordinated . . . and lack essential resources.”

IEDs are not terrorists “weapon of choice” they are insurgents weapon of choice. The United States doesn’t need a strategy for countering these weapons because we already have one–good old fashioned law enforcement. We don’t need “strategic guidance” because this isn’t a threat in the United States that needs countered. Come on DHS, why not at least show us some evidence that this is a real problem in the United States first?