“THE BIGGEST REORGANIZATION SINCE HARRY TRUMAN:” That’s what the White House is promising. That could be good or bad. We really need a massive reorganization in the defense/intelligence/antiterror area. But reorganizations are also what managements that aren’t sure what else to do tend to focus on. We’ll see about this one.

UPDATE: Taegan Goddard is skeptical too, and offers a link to this book excerpt on the usual fate of government reorganizations.

As I said, we need a reorganization here. It’s just hard to do these things well, so we need to pay close attention to what Bush is doing. Reorganization is a means to an end, but such efforts all too often become ends in themselves.

UPDATE: Charles Austin is more hopeful. I hope he’s right.