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Holey security blanket, Batman! When those polls pop up showing that the American people think President Bush more trustworthy than his opponent on fighting terrorism and securing the homeland, your blogstress can't help wondering, on what planet do those surveyed dwell? Are they not on the planet where Border Patrol officers, agents of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, and indeed all of the Department of Homeland Security, toil under a hiring freeze? Do they not inhabit the blue marble on which the folks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforce the law not only under a hiring freeze, but under a spending freeze , as well? Then there's the second resignation of a cybersecurity chief in the last 18 months, apparently out of frustration for the lack of resources afforded him for securing the computer-driven infrastructure that regulates, among other things, the electricity grid. As if that's not enough, the Department of Homeland Security