Posted on 04/24/2009 9:49:58 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob
Today comes news that the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, is replacing Roger Mackin with Phillip Mudd. Who? What? So?
Roger Mackin was the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis. He was responsible for the memo issued just before the 750+ Tea Parties attended by 1 million+ Americans. You know that memo, which said people who oppose abortion, attend church, and own legal guns are potential terrorists. And don’t forget that it also said veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan are risky, too.
Before talking about that appalling memo, let’s back up a minute. What is the purpose of the Homeland Security Department? It is to protect Americans in their homes, businesses, schools and shopping malls from being slaughtered by (mostly) Islamofascists who have announced their intentions to keep killing Americans, as they did on 9/11.
It is NOT the purpose of Homeland Security to keep President Barack Obama safe in the political polls by creating factually baseless attacks against people who are perceived as his political opponents. Anyone who thinks in terms of protecting the President’s political stances, rather than protecting the lives of ordinary Americans should NOT be drawing a paycheck from Homeland Security. So, good riddance to Mr, Mackin.
And welcome to Mr. Mudd, who has a background with the FBI and the CIA, and who might have a better idea of what his mission is. But that brings us to the question of Secretary Napolitano. Unless she was totally incompetent, she had to have seen this memo before it was released, and to have played a role in choosing its release date just before the Tea Parties took place across the nation.
If she thinks that the proper role of Homeland Security is to protect the political butt of the President, rather than to protect the lives of American citizens, she should be dumped as fast as the Secretary of that Department, as Mr. Mackin was dumped as Undersecretary. Is there other evidence that the Homeland Security Secretary has no clue what her job entails? Evidence that she has in other ways acted to endanger Americans, rather than protect them?
Prior to becoming Secretary, Napolitano was Governor of Arizona, a key target for the invasion of illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States. That state passed a series of laws to make it harder for illegals to work in that state, laws which proved very effective and caused many aliens to “self-deport.” But those laws were passed over the determined opposition of Napolitano.
Just recently, Napolitano stated in public that the 9/11 attackers came across the Canadian border. That is dead wrong. All 19 of those murderous hijackers entered the US via our own airports and under lax regulations on tourists and students.
This week, Napolitano announced that she wants revisions and relaxation of the Real ID Act passed by Congress years ago, and now going into effect. That law was occasioned by some states having incredibly lax regulations so that aliens, and terrorists, could easily get US drivers licenses. My state, North Carolina, was a particularly bad example. As I understand, almost half of the 9/11 criminals got their first licenses in North Carolina, which they could then exchange for licenses from any other state.
I was invited to speak to a national meeting of state legislators six years ago on the subject of the security of drivers licenses. I told them that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link; either the states would have to adopt proof of who you are and whether you are a US citizen as a minimum standard for licenses, or Congress would force the issue. Congress did force it, rejecting state drivers licenses as valid ID from those states which still had sloppy standards.
Is Secretary Napolitano too stupid to recognize that obvious point? Or, does she think that following the winds of politics is her higher duty?
Either way, Napolitano needs to be fired as quickly as humanly possible. The longer she stays, the more likely it is that thousands, tens of thousands, or millions of Americans (if the terrorists smuggle in a nuclear weapon made in North Korea, Iran, or Pakistan) will be killed. In such case, the murderers who push the button will not be any of those who were slandered in her biased threat memo.
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About the Author: John Armor practiced law in the Supreme Court for 33 years. He now lives on the Eastern Continental Divide in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina. John_Armor@aya.yale.edu
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John / Billybob / Ben
Thanks John.
This is a good summation.
So the DHS extremist report author gets a big promotion.
figures.
I hate to judge people by their looks, but when I see Janet, I see a high school principle (at best). I can’t believe she ever made it to Governor in Arizona. What happened to that once great state? I sure California refugees will be blamed... :}
I couldn't find it. What promotion did Mackin get?
This raises a question ~ what was the full nature of those contracts ~ was Chertof tracking down Conservatives and Christians?
John / Billybob
Napolitano is a figurehead with no clue about anything. She simply regurgitates what she’s fed by the pimp(s) who hired her. She is a disgusting reminder to all real Americans of how far we as a nation have fallen to have allowed our country to be hijacked by a bunch of treasonous losers.
California, Illinois, and Michigan transplants have destroyed us, along with lots of arriving illegals.
I’m beginning to think that Obama/Emmanuel/Pelosi/Reid Soros
WANT a successful attack on an American city. If THAT happens, they will be free to call out martial law and use the resulting chaos to snuff out all Obama’s philosophical opponents.
Funny, I've thought much the same thing - except in my case it was a kindergarten teacher.
“”It is NOT the purpose of Homeland Security to keep President Barack Obama safe in the political polls by creating factually baseless attacks against people who are perceived as his political opponents””
His entire administration is designed to protect and promote HIM and his political cause that is driven by his handlers. By their estimation, Mr. Janet is likely doing a superb job and they will praise and reward his Anti-efforts.
Why would you think TOTUS gives a damn about the actual safety of our homeland and its security? DHS to him (them) is a tool to be manipulated for ‘the cause’. Before their screw-ups lead to disasters, the various versions for the cover-up stories have already been written.
And, I agree with FR Zulu and others that predict any catastrophic attacks upon US soil will be utilized as an ‘opportunity’ to tighten the stranglehold about liberty’s neck. These tragedies will be further distractions and excuses to usher in rotten changes our Founding Fathers would have never envisioned in their worst nightmares.
If that happens, then, if the next president is Republican and he/she has a Pub controlled congress, they should go after ALL of them with their long knives. If they hold hearings over prisoner “abuse” at Gitmo, then go after Zer0 and his bunch of merry traitors for allowing, he!!, inviting and attack on our soil. Turnabout if fair play.
Bump!!
EXACTLY. Turnabout is fair play and roughing up a bunch of thugs is far less an offense than treason.
La Gubernadora Ping!
Girl’s P.E. coach is more like it.
The only good thing about her is that she is now out as being Governor of Arizona. Everything after that is downhill.
So Mackin was appointed by a Bush appointee.
Roger is returning to public service after nearly four years in the private sector, where he furthered the development of fusion centers around the country.
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Roger received an undergraduate degree from the University of Miami. His service to the nation began in the United States Air Force, where he earned two bronze stars for special operations assignments in Vietnam. He advanced to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force reserves upon conclusion of his active duty service, at which time he launched a career as an operations, paramilitary and counter-intelligence officer in the Central Intelligence Agency that lasted nearly 30 years.
Philip has spent a 24-year career working in the Intelligence Community and comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he serves as National Security Branch Associate Executive Assistant Director. Bart comes to DHS from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), where he serves as Director of Homeland Security and Law Enforcement, but he spent the majority of his career in state and local law enforcement—most recently as Colonel in the New York State Police.
Notice the part about the "fusion centers" in the Mackin statement? IIRC, one, or more, of those "fusion centers" had previously put out the same kind of trash on the "right wing" threat, well before BO and JN came on the scene, and before he was appointed to the position from which he was recently relieved.
In this case it may really have been Bush's Fault.
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