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A major thing the DOE does is keep track of where the world's plutonium is— it's energy-related, but also a national security matter. Michael Lewis's excellent
by mikepurvis 7y ago
A major thing the DOE does is keep track of where the world's plutonium is— it's energy-related, but also a national security matter. Michael Lewis's excellent book The Fifth Risk examines some of these agency functions in the context of what was lost when there Trump administration stepped into power with essentially no transition plan or concept of how to run them.
- dnautics 7y agoYou're making my point.
- mikepurvis 7y agoThem having critically important functions that are different from what their names might imply is not at all the same thing as "we'd be better off without them".
- dnautics 7y agoI was definitely in the "we don't need this reorg" camp when the DHS was created. Which camp were you in?