According to a GAO report that was issued last week, more than four years after the process started, the Department of Homeland Security “lacks a comprehensive integration strategy with overall goals, a timeline, appropriate responsibility and accountability determinations, and a dedicated team to support its efforts.

“Despite some progress,” the auditors for the Government Accountability Office concluded, “this transformation remains high risk.”

“Managing the transformation of an organization of the size and complexity of (Homeland Security) requires comprehensive planning and integration of key management functions that will likely span a number of years.”

But the DHS’s implementation of such changes is lagging. Its “financial management systems still do not conform to federal requirements,” and it “has also not institutionalized an effective strategic framework for information management,” the GAO report said.

I probably don’t need to remind you that DHS is the agency that supervises the TSA.

Yes, DHS, the same agency whose website has the tagline, “Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America.”