Congress Created Them All

Here's a letter to the Washington Post:

You're right to worry that Uncle Sam responded to the public's anxiety about terrorism by creating an overgrown intelligence bureaucracy with bloated budgets that strain our wallets and arbitrary powers that mock the Constitution as they threaten our freedoms ("The overgrowth of intelligence programs since Sept. 11," July 22).

But why do you not also worry about similar extensions of government's reach into areas such as health-care and finance?  As with...