Posted on 01/17/2025 2:27:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
GOP senators railed against a host of Alejandro Mayorkas’ failures in Friday’s confirmation hearing for Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The hearing at times seemed like a Republican therapy session for lawmakers who needed to express their disgust with current DHS Secretary Mayorkas, whom Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio described as “the worst cabinet member ever in the history of the United States of America.”
Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, recounted how Mayorkas established the Disinformation Governance Board “using taxpayer resources to police speech on the internet and elsewhere, to tag American citizens’ viewpoints as either legitimate or not legitimate, and used the power of the state to censor them.”
“This has got to be the darkest chapter, I think, in DHS’s short history,” Hawley said. “[Mayorkas] eventually withdrew the board under intense criticism but has never fully repudiated it and never promised not to do it again.”
The theme of the hearing was that DHS has moved away from its mission. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican, summarized conservative criticism of the department in his opening statement:
Instead of focusing on critical threats like securing the southwest border, DHS has shifted its gaze inward, targeting law abiding Americans. DHS, under the Biden administration, has often used its vast powers to target Americans exercising their constitutional rights. It’s become an agency more focused on policing speech, monitoring social media, and labeling political dissent as domestic terrorism than addressing genuine security threats. While cartels traffic people and fentanyl across an unguarded border, DHS has spent its time and resources creating partisan disinformation boards spying on Americans through invasive surveillance technologies. The mission drift is dangerous.
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Just close the POS down. Fire everyone.
Lots of rot, yeah, but the post doesn’t focus on the real damage done to the whole concept of Federal law enforcement.
A DOJ investigation is itself a crushing punishment for anyone caught up in one.
Even with no prosecution, no trial, no judge, no jury tens of thousands of people have been frightened, forced to hire lawyers, lost time and travel expenses and otherwise suffered for being seen as on the wrong side of some government orthodoxy.
Wrong protests, wrong commerce, wrong work conditions, wrong medicine, wrong journalism, even wrong social media can leave an American fearful of some government action. No crime is needed to intimidate the “wrong”.
“Just close the POS down. Fire everyone.”
They’ll never do that. Too much power there.
Did crazy Mazie get any “unwanted sexual advances today”? I was busy all day and couldn’t watch the hearings. I was rootin’ for the little old Japanese Kabuki lady finally getting a couple “unwanted sexual advances” from somebody. Shiffty or Schumer. She’s working hard for them as their main hearings clown.
Bust up the DHS and eliminate it.
Power, once acquired, is never relinquished voluntarily
She will have a JOB to clean out that pit. It reminds me of the Labor of Hercules—cleaning the Agenian Stables—Like Herc she may need to divert a river to sweep sway all the poop. That or build a whole new stable.
IF she does well, she may redeem herself enough to be a viable candidate next election- We’ll see what happens
Her South Dakota staff gave her a flame thrower a while back.
They also raffled one off for a fundraiser. I lost.
“ Fire everyone ”
Yeah especially the Coast Guard.
Oh. Who knew the Coast Guard didn’t exist before Homeland Security? Moron.
Pleased to hear that they are shutting down CBP One as soon as possible and that they understand the value of preserving the data accumulated by that app. My suggestion would be to create an app that could be used by illegals to facilitate flights out of the US. And have some sort of incentive to getting tome to self-deport. Like granting permission to apply in 15 years under a very carefully vetted admission process.
Can always count on a Buffoon like you to defend a ridiculous statement.
Ooh sick burn. Dork.
Dork ????. What are you 1000 years old LOL
Let me ask you a question. When you make a stupid broad based generalization like “fire them all” are we expected to read your fricking mind and understand that your position is much more nuanced and you didn’t really mean what you wrote. Where I come from “fire them all” generally means fire them all. Not sure what it means to you.
While we close it down, let’s not forget to give credit to the cretin that established it and also gave us the Patriot Act—George Dubya Bush.
Exactly. That POS wrecked the US in addition to the ME and Central Asia.
Here is a response to DHS BS.
DHS guts cyber review board as Trump moves against ‘misuse of resources’ (Jan 21, 2025)
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/01/dhs-cyber-review-board-cleaned-out-trump-move-eliminate-misuse-resources/402392/
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