Maj Gen John Batiste (Ret.): “Mr. President, you did not listen. You continue to pursue a failed strategy that is breaking (our military).”

By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department (HSD) is known chiefly for being the agency in charge of America’s color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system (“Good morning, Americans. Today is Yellow. Be vigilant. Report all suspicious people.”) It’s boogeyman nonsense, of course, doing absolutely nothing to make our country safe. But such…