Shell Game
If your agency did something wrong, and later dissolved, and its functions were taken over by another agency, can you claim your agency was not responsible for the bad act?
You can if you are DOJ Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
The INS used to be part of DOJ. In 2002 then-Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson signed the order deporting Maher Arar to Syria. INS later dissolved, and deportation functions are now handled by DHS under Sec. Chertoff.
Thus, Gonzales was able to claim that "we [DOJ] were not responsible for [Arar's] removal to Syria," even though, well, they were. KAREN DeYOUNG of the Washington Post is restrained enough to let you draw your own conclusions.