Thread: CONGRESSMAN: JANET NAPOLITANO DISGRACEFUL

CONGRESSMAN: JANET NAPOLITANO DISGRACEFUL

By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
May 17, 2009
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When the World Health Organization raised its global alert level regarding swine flu, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano held a press conference to address the crisis within the United States.

Secretary Napolitano told reporters that the Obama Administration is reacting as if the swine flu outbreak is a full pandemic and that the President said the threat of spreading infections is cause for concern but "not a cause for alarm." But Napolitano disappointed many Americans when she took no action to seal the US-Mexican border during the pandemic.

But not everyone is comfortable with having Secretary Napolitano designated as the leader in a health crisis. Her past statements and actions give pause when she takes charge of any crisis, real or imagined, according to Mike Baker, a political strategist.

"President Obama has filled his cabinet with left-wing ideologues who are unqualified for the positions they hold. You have a former smear-master [Leon Panetta] as CIA Director, a Clinton retread [Eric Holder] heading the Justice Department, and others who are Internationalist and worry more about the United Nations than their own nation," warns Baker.

To many Americans, even more disturbing is Napolitano's -- and President Barack Obama's -- refusal to address the growing problem of illegal aliens entering the US from Mexico. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509655,00.html

"Napolitano mirrors the feelings of Obama and [Speaker of the House] Nancy Pelosi -- that border security is 'Un-American," said veteran cop Lieutenant Stephan Rodgers from New Jersey.

"In fact, one of Napolitano's first orders was for ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) agents to stop workplace inspections to arrest illegal workers and identity thieves," said Lt. Rodgers.

More than one conservative congressman is concerned over the Homeland Security Secretary's brief track record. She has been involved in what must be characterized as controversy on more than one occasion.

First, during her testimony on Capitol Hill, Napolitano noticeably failed to use the words terrorist or radical Islam even once while testifying, in spite of the fact her very job was created as a result of terrorist attacks perpetrated by radical Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001.

The former Arizona governor has been slow to respond to the violence and chaos that exists at the US-Mexican border and continues to hesitate in dealing with an out-of-control immigration problem. Instead, Napolitano pointed to the US-Canadian border as cause for concern, going so far as to say the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States from Canada.

Napolitano subsequently was forced to apologize to the Canadian government and had to correct her erroneous statement. The fact that the nation's top terrorism fighter didn't know from where the men -- who committed the worst terrorist attack in US history -- entered this nation did not instill must confidence in her knowledge and ability.

Then Secretary Napolitano's department released a report characterizing war veterans from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan as possible right-wing extremists. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Aust ... d_security That same report also cast suspicion on American citizens who oppose abortion and gun control, or those who oppose the federal government's intrusion into the business of individual states or citizens.

Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) gave the following statement in response to ongoing controversy over the Department of Homeland Security's recent report on right-wing extremists and potential domestic terrorism, as well as Secretary Napolitano's failure to appropriately apologize for the offensive assertions made in the report:

"The outrageous, unsubstantiated, politically-loaded DHS report on 'Right-Wing Extremism,' shows a stunning lack of understanding of the real and imminent threats America is truly facing," said Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ), who is a member of the Committee on Armed Services, Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee, Military Readiness Subcommittee, Committee on the Judiciary, Constitution Subcommittee, and is ranking member on the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.

"It is also a disgraceful insult to the true heroes of our country. If veterans, pro-life and states' rights advocates and those who seek to protect the Constitutional rights of themselves and their fellow Americans are at higher risk for becoming domestic terrorists, then over 80% of the people in my District can be categorized as a potential national security threat," said Rep. Franks.

Franks also noted http://www.house.gov/franks/ that it would be very interesting to see what taxpayer-funded resources went into producing "this disgraceful report and what documents and evidence they are using to justify it."

Franks and other conservatives believe that using the vast and powerful resources of the Department of Homeland Security to target and ostracize political opposition, as it would appear is being done, sets an incredibly dangerous precedent and it's something America's federal government should have no part of.

Franks said, "The report claims the election of an “African American presidentâ€

Nappy and her cohorts in crime knew about the Mexican Swine Flu long before it came into our country.

Janet Napolitano is an absolute disgrace. So far she takes the cake over the rest of the obnoxious Obama choices.

Originally Posted by butterbean

Janet Napolitano is an absolute disgrace. So far she takes the cake over the rest of the obnoxious Obama choices.

Well said. She is doing exactly what I suspected she would. Which is basically nothing. She sucks.

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

Originally Posted by butterbean

Janet Napolitano is an absolute disgrace. So far she takes the cake over the rest of the obnoxious Obama choices.

Well said. She is doing exactly what I suspected she would. Which is basically nothing. She sucks.

Nappy started out as an Arpaio supporter, then she went against him. Now she's against the American people as a whole. Traitor, treasonous liberal bedwetter.

She sure is a DISGRACE!
It's an embarrassment to America that SHE????is protecting all of us?

NOT GOOD FOLKS!

So far Nappy ought to be an embarrassment to the administration. Wonder what she'll say next?

To be continued....