SAYONARA, CIA

Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., unveiled a plan to dismantle the CIA and reorganize the majority of its functions under a new management structure.

It's about time.

The bloated, impotent and political bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security does little to fix the serious flaws exposed in the Sept. 11 Commission report.

Few have yet to see the plan, of course, but this is the first right idea that's come out of Capitol Hill in a long time with regard to national security.