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Napolitano Scolds Reporter for Airing Complaints of Dead Border Agent's Family

Published December 23, 2010
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, leaving the funeral of a murdered Border Patrol agent Wednesday, scolded a reporter for asking her to address the victim's family's concerns that not enough is being done to secure the southern border.

The family of agent Brian Terry had complained that Napolitano had offered them "empty words" when she called to express her condolences. Terry's father, Kent Terry, in an interview with ABC affiliate KGUN, said he told Napolitano to "wake your man up in the White House," to which she replied that he's done more in two years than any president.

Napolitano attended the Detroit funeral Wednesday where she vowed "swift justice" for Terry's killers. But asked about the family's concerns outside the service, Napolitano said "now is not the time to talk about all that has been done."

She said more agents and technology are on the border than ever before, but told the KGUN reporter it's time to remember the fallen agent and not start picking fights.

"Listen, I don't know who you spoke with in the family," Napolitano said.

After being told the concerns came from his father, mother and stepmother, she continued: "Listen, we are here today, the commissioner is here today, the chief of the Border Patrol is here today and we are here and his comrades are here with the family, who said other things to me by the way, so I really don't think it appropriate for the media to try to pick this as a fight," she said. "This is a moment to remember a fallen agent."

Moments earlier, Napolitano had delivered remarks for Terry's service. She pledged to punish those responsible.

"We resolve, I resolve, to pursue swift justice for those responsible for his death, and we resolve, I resolve, to do everything in our power to protect those who put their lives on the line every day for our nation's safety and security," she said, according to MyFoxDetroit.

Terry was fatally shot while tracking a gang last week near Nogales, Ariz. Four people have been arrested in connection with the case.

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according to MyFoxDetroit

See Story Here:
Hundreds Attend Funeral Service for Border Agent Terry
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There is nothing Napolitano can ever do or say that will ever convince me she gives two hoots about born and bred Americans.
How could we, as a nation, ever ended up with all these clowns in powerful positions.

POTUS
Napolitano
Holder
Pelosi
Boxer
Reid

the list is endless...

"WE HAVE DONE MORE THAN ANY OTHER BLAH BLAH BLAH"

SPIN SPIN SPIN

Repeat a lie often enough and .........................

This evil skagg has to go asap

Bleach won't even wash the blood off this woman's hands!

She is in mind a classic example of being promoted into incompetence.

Simply the rules of engagement need to change on the border it is a war zone.....................

Napolitano says this but the day of the dream act, she sent out letters saying to ignore E-verify and put the waivers in, so she is a liar

Originally Posted by fatfenders

There is nothing Napolitano can ever do or say that will ever convince me she gives two hoots about born and bred Americans.
How could we, as a nation, ever ended up with all these clowns in powerful positions.

POTUS
Napolitano
Holder
Pelosi
Boxer
Reid

the list is endless...

I don't like any of them never did . OBama is first On my list & it so on down the line
the border Is a war zone it just like NYC close the border ON all side

Terry's father, Kent Terry, in an interview with ABC affiliate KGUN, said he told Napolitano to "wake your man up in the White House," to which she replied that he's done more in two years than any president

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Wonder what his reaction was to that outrageous comment. She just had to get a plug in her for boss. Unbelievable!

Family: 'Empty Rhetoric' over Border Agent's Death

By Paul Strand
CBN News Washington Sr. Correspondent
Thursday, December 23, 2010


Brian Terry was a member of an elite border patrol unit in Arizona.

He died Dec. 14 in a firefight that broke out when his unit confronted bandits who prey on illegal immigrants and drug smugglers pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border near Tucson, Ariz.

Terry's family contends if the U.S. government were doing all it could to control the border, he wouldn't have been killed.

On Wednesday, Terry was honored at his funeral in his native Michigan. Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano took part in the service.

"I'm proud to be carrying a personal note to you from the president of the United States to your family. He, like I, honors Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry," she said to his family during the service.

The night before, Napolitano telephoned the family, but ended up squabbling with Terry's father, Kent.

"I said you got to wake your man up in the White House," Kent said of their conversation. "And she said he's done more in the last two years than any other president."

The family said with chaos and violence so rampant in the border area, Napolitano's comforting words are nothing but empty rhetoric.

"They had no meaning to them," Terry's stepmother, Carolyn, said. "She was pacifying us."

"She has Christmas in a couple of days. She'll forget about it tomorrow," Terry's brother Kent Junior added.

When a local reporter relayed the family's feelings to Napolitano at the funeral home, she responded angrily.

"I really don't think it appropriate for the media to try to pick this as a fight. This is a moment to remember a fallen agent," she said.

The death of Agent Terry was the latest incident of deadly violence rampant along the border. However, Napolitano defends the government's efforts to get the violence under control.

"There are more agents, more technology at the border than ever before, and more is on the way," she said after the funeral.

But for the family of Brian Terry, they say those efforts are too little, too late.


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