A retired Coast Guard officer, he has advised both the Bush and Obama administrations, including as the homeland security policy adviser for President Obama's 2008 transition team. (CNN) There are three cardinal rules for homeland security, and Donald Trump has been breaking each one with abandon. What were people supposed to do when the US Department of Homeland Security declared condition orange or condition red? After 9/11, elected leaders and national security and homeland security officials would often say : "Terrorists have to be right only once, while we have to be right 100% of the time." But the outcome was to create overinflated public expectations about what can and was being done to make the homeland safe.

Source: CNN November 06, 2016 20:41 UTC