Your gun-totin’ government at work

In his 2008 campaign, candidate Obama promised to develop a civilian agency with the same budget and power of the Defense Department.

That had already started, but was spread over much of the Federal Government:

“Former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) … points out that, ‘In the nine years until 2014, we found 67 agencies unaffiliated with the Defense Department bought $1.48 billion in weapons and ammunition. Of this total, $335.1 million was spent by agencies traditionally viewed as regulatory or administrative, such as the Smithsonian Institution and the US Mint.’”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/08/the_enemy_is_us.html#ixzz4ILpE8vPN

Back in 08, somebody in the Obama administration truly believed in the need of a "civilian" agency as armed and as numerous as the Defense Department.