REVOLVING DOOR: Ex-Homeland-Security Officials Score On K Street. “So, is the marginal improvement in safety worth the costs? This is not the sort of calculation our leaders are likely to make. For one thing, there’s political pressure to ‘do everything possible’ to prevent another terrorist attack. But just as important, there is now a growing entrenched set of special interests who profit more when homeland-security spending grows more — regardless of whether it makes us safer.”