Comments on: National Insecurity – Fire Janet Napolitano! http://libertariancomment.com/national-insecurity-fire-janet-napolitano/ Blog on Libertarian Ideas and Politics Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Glenn http://libertariancomment.com/national-insecurity-fire-janet-napolitano/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Glenn Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:26:44 +0000 http://libertariancomment.com/?p=214#comment-30 How would you know what's going on at DHS? It just so happens I have a highly placed source in DHS who catalogued a series of politically correct actions direct from Napolitano, that belie her incessant focus on rights, diversity, senstitivity, cost reduction and 'greening' the department that have NOTHING to do with protecting us from such attacks. And this is definitely a change of tone from previous leadership. As for whether someone should be held to account for this screwup, who do you suggest, if not Napolitano? As I catalogue in my article, there were several basic operational screwups that occurred - that we know of only a few days afterwards, who knows what will come out eventually. And then for her to come out and say the system works? Absurd! The incompetence of DHS almost caused the loss of 300 lives (only spared because of the idiotic terrorist's screwup), what if you or your loved ones were on the airplane, would you be so sanguine? I doubt it. How would you know what’s going on at DHS? It just so happens I have a
highly placed source in DHS who catalogued a series of
politically correct actions direct from Napolitano, that belie her incessant
focus on rights, diversity, senstitivity, cost reduction and ‘greening’ the
department that have NOTHING to do with protecting us from such attacks. And
this is definitely a change of tone from previous leadership.

As for whether someone should be held to account for this screwup, who do
you suggest, if not Napolitano? As I catalogue in my article, there were
several basic operational screwups that occurred – that we know of only a
few days afterwards, who knows what will come out eventually. And then for
her to come out and say the system works? Absurd! The incompetence of DHS
almost caused the loss of 300 lives (only spared because of the idiotic
terrorist’s screwup), what if you or your loved ones were on the airplane,
would you be so sanguine? I doubt it.

]]> By: Mark Birch http://libertariancomment.com/national-insecurity-fire-janet-napolitano/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Mark Birch Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:37:49 +0000 http://libertariancomment.com/?p=214#comment-29 You could have stopped at #1. The fact that nine years later the US and UK are not joined up on these lists is troubling. After 9/11, it was recognized that global coordination on the fight against terrorism was essentiaL Clearly it is not happening, even amongst supposedly closest of allies. As for Napolitano, I am not sure this incident requires her resignation, nor do I think political correctness is driving the agency's agenda. What is clear though is that the agency is a behemoth and needs to be examined thoroughly to understand if it even effective at its purpose of keeping our country safe. You could have stopped at #1. The fact that nine years later the US and UK are not joined up on these lists is troubling. After 9/11, it was recognized that global coordination on the fight against terrorism was essentiaL Clearly it is not happening, even amongst supposedly closest of allies.

As for Napolitano, I am not sure this incident requires her resignation, nor do I think political correctness is driving the agency’s agenda. What is clear though is that the agency is a behemoth and needs to be examined thoroughly to understand if it even effective at its purpose of keeping our country safe.

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