Homeland Security and the Very Bad Steve

State Representative (and friend of the show) Rick Noriega hands out some beatdown to state Homeland Security director Steve McCraw over border security. Seriously, Steve, what did you expect?

One of the oldest methods of argument in politics is to justify your own position by claiming the other side doesn't understand or know what it is talking about. I am no CNN expert, making claims about Salafi this or Barelwi that to a glassy-eyed desk anchor, but I know a thing or two about politics and terrorism, and I will tell you that Noriega is right: many aspects of terrorism and border security are represented incorrectly for political reasons.

Small airports and seaports do represent more of a fundamental risk than the US-Mexico border. As the Homeland Security director, with a mandate to also keep an eye on drug interdiction, yes, you can certainly make the claim that resources should be concentrated on the U.S.-Mexico border to aid in both drug interdiction and national security. To shield that argument behind claims that Noriega is ignorant to homeland security issues based on the (very valid) arguments he's made is ridiculous.