The Oklahoma Republican, Tom Coburn, is retiring because of health issues, and he issued a final report as Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs titled, “A Review of the Department of Homeland Security’s Missions and Performance.”

It’s not a pretty picture. The DHS was thrown together quickly following the 9/11 jihadist attacks and one of its major problems is being too large and bureaucratic. Plus, there is no reason for the agency to include FEMA and natural disasters, in particular.

Coburn didn’t mention that the administration is not genuinely trying to enforce the border and immigration laws, because it wants the new illegal aliens to be future Democrat voters. So bureaucratic slowness is a plus for Obama, because the public tends to forget about thousands of foreigners with children trooping across the border unopposed last summer who don’t show up months later for court appearances.

According to Coburn, the DHS has five main tasks and it is not performing any of them adequately, as noted in a January 3 press release about the report: