Posted By LambChop
And the chorus chanted, “Ding Dong the witch is dead!”
Conservative bloggers and pundits agree that Janet Napolitano’s departure is a good thing for the nation, after her shaky tenure as chief of the Department of Homeland Security. Napolitano’s record is so deficient it is laughable – the stuff of a late night comic’s wet dream. While liberals champion the spotty record, pretending there were “no terrorist attacks on her watch,” the facts do not bear this out. Her resume speaks for itself.
Napolitano’s early years of experience formed her progressive statist beliefs. After law school she served as a law clerk for Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit is known as the liberal clown car in the circus of insane liberal decisions. The Ninth has been reversed so many times by the Supreme Court; the joke is that TWO Supreme Court dockets are needed: one to reverse the Ninth Circuit; and another to hear all the other cases.
To add to her liberal resume, Napolitano then served as an attorney for Anita Hill. Anita Hill testified in the U.S. Senate that then U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her ten years earlier when she was his subordinate at the federal EEOC. Thomas was confirmed despite the media circus and Hill’s accusations were never proven. Thomas has never been accused since then of any impropriety.
In 1993, Napolitano was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. As U.S. Attorney, she was involved in the investigation of Michael Fortier in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing who cut a deal and was mysteriously placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The key to connecting the OK bombing with the Islamic terrorist who planned the first bombing on the World Trade Center, Yosef Ramzi, was subsequently buried by the administration.
Napolitano was appointed head of the Department of Homeland Security in January of 2009 by President Barack Obama.
PROBLEMS IN DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY UNDER NAPOLITANO
One agent was “humiliated” when a drunken Barr called him in his hotel room and screamed that she wanted his “c*ck in the back of [her] throat.”
By July of 2012, Napolitano was accused of allowing discrimination against male staffers within the Department of Homeland Security. Her two buddies, Dora Schriro and Suzanne Barr were at Ground Zero of the antics. James Hayes Jr. a special agent of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, filed a federal discrimination lawsuit, alleging that Dora Schriro and Suzanne Barr harassed male staffers. The suit said that promotions were only given to women who were friends of Napolitano. A complaint was apparently reported to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) office which resulted in Napolitano launching a witch hunt – she began a series of trumped -up misconduct investigations against the whistleblower who made the report to the EEOC.
Another stupid idea. Napolitano produced a video message that was played on TV screens in Wal-Mart with a "public service announcement" that instructed customers to spy on each other and report suspicious activity to any Wal-Mart manager.
After the budget sequester controversy, Napolitano was caught lying that “major” airports experienced huge delays in security as a result of the sequester. Yet NO airports actually experienced any of these falsely reported delays. She said that airport security lines were "150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect" as result of the federal spending cuts that went into force on Friday. "We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend. " Napolitano was then pressed for specific airports and she cited Chicago's O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), adding: "I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform." The UK’s The Daily Telegraph, then contacted spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry, who ALL denied that airports had been hit by delays.
TERRORISM
“Her record was the underwear didn't explode,” said FOX News analyst Charles Krauthammer.
Napolitano worshipped at the altar of Obama’s pro-Islam theology. She began with the politically correct denial of the existence radical Islamic terrorism almost immediately. Soon after taking her post at DHS, she told the Germany’s "Spiegel Online" that while she presumed there is always a threat from terrorism: "I referred to 'man-caused' disasters’. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”
Janet Napolitano also issued a ban for toner & ink cartridges on passenger flights in response to the October 2010 Yemen bomb plot. As a result of this attempted attack, she also initiated the invasive pat down procedure which resulted in passengers being sexually abused by the TSA agents. No other terrorist plots were ever thwarted by these increased “security” measures.
Napolitano was roundly criticized for claiming (during an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley) that, "the system worked" referring to the attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009. The reality was that the system failed horribly and the terrorist was actually brought down by fellow passenger Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch film director. The bomber’s attempt was never classified as a terrorist action by the Obama administration.
Napolitano was ridiculed after defending her Department of Homeland Security threat assessment report entitled "Rightwing [sic] Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” The report that suggested the real homegrown terror threat was not from Islamic extremists (despite all statistical evidence to the contrary),but from unnamed "rightwing extremists" concerned about illegal immigration, abortion, increasing federal power and restrictions on firearms. The report singled out returning war veterans as susceptible to recruitment by dangerous groups.
Napolitano ignored the Fort Hood Attack as an example of terrorism on her watch. Nidal Hasan, a military psychiatrist, murdered 13 and wounded 30 on the army base shouting, “ Allahu akbar!” as he shot the unsuspecting people. Hasan had as many as 20 communications with terrorist recruiter and radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Despite the communications and the fact that al-Awlaki later praised Hasan as a “hero” after the murders, the Obama administration claimed there was no evidence the attack “was part of a broader terrorist plot.” Hasan’s actions have been classified as “workplace violence.”
Similarly, the recent Boston Bombing was a comedy of errors, with terrorist watch list suspects who had strong circumstantial ties with the bombing being visited in the hospital by the First Lady. The Saudis were later were mysteriously sent back Saudi Arabia in the dead of night by the Obama administration. It was also noted that bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had previously been able to re-enter the U.S. (after a trip to Russia) despite his disturbing background and warnings by the Russians to U.S. security officials.
Napolitano promised under oath and several times since 2011 to present Congress with country-by-country data on the number criminal immigrants who overstay visas and remain in the United States illegally, but the information has never materialized.
IMMIGRATION AND BORDER SECURITY
“Our borders have, in fact, never been stronger.” – Janet Napolitano
DHS had long measured progress in border security in terms of the "miles under effective control" by the Border Patrol, but in 2010, 44% of the border with Mexico was deemed under control. By 2011, Napolitano simply abandoned the measure, promising a better set of metrics, but she never released another report again.
In speeches, press conferences and testimony before Congress, Napolitano (a former border-state governor) repeatedly insisted that the U.S. border with Mexico was "more secure than ever." Of course, immigration slowed considerably beginning in 2006 when Texas began cracking down on employers who hired illegals and once again in 2008 when the construction and service industries stopped hiring because of the Obama Great Recession.
Napolitano championed Obama’s selective enforcement of laws and abuse of executive power. In 2012, Obama issued a bizarre directive to stop deportations of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. Law enforcement agents instructed to ignore the law when it comes to certain illegal immigrants, implementing a DREAM Act via executive order. ICE National Council president Chris Crane said, “Agents are forced to apply the DREAM Act, not to children in schools, but to adult inmates in jails. Releasing criminals back into communities throughout the nation, criminals who have committed felonies, assaulted our officers, and who prey on children.”
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