Napolitano’s Inept Homeland Security Department

May 18, 2010 04:35


Here we are fighting a war against Islamic terrorism with many plots going on at the same time against America and here they are pulling over people who have bumper stickers they don’t like. If you look at the lexicon of that report, people who are strongly pro-life—that was something they were telling people to watch out for and possibly pull them over to question them.”

by  Rowan Scarborough at Human Events

In New York’s Time Square, it was a hot dog vendor who spotted a bomb-laden Nissan SUV. The man who parked it there, Faisal Shahzad, was able to board a Persian Gulf-bound jet many hours after Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of airport screening, knew his identity.

In an airliner over Detroit, passengers prevented Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from igniting an underwear bomb. The bomber was known to DHS as a potential saboteur, but was able to board the U.S.-to-Amsterdam flight on Christmas Day.

A month earlier, base police stopped Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, a radical Islamist, after he killed 13 of his Army colleagues. Hasan’s growing extremism and links to a fanatic al Qaeda preacher in Yemen were not acted on by the Obama Administration, including DHS.

Throughout these DHS failings, Secretary Napolitano, the highest ranking civilian responsible for protecting U.S. citizens, showed a reluctance to face up to who the enemy really is.

  • Napolitano told a German magazine she preferred the term “man-caused disaster” rather than terrorism. She does not seem to know her own department’s priorities.
  • She will not allow immigration agencies to increase deportation of illegal aliens.
  • She allowed the release of a DHS report that said the real homeland threats were war veterans, pro-life activists and gun owners.

“The Obama Administration is just adopting the wrong priorities,” said Danny Gonzales, spokesman for the pro-military group MoveAmericaForward.org. “Janet Napolitano is one of the worst. The Department of Homeland Security report where they were talking about supposed right-wing extremists and saying our military could be recruited by far-right racist Christian groups—that was obviously a huge major flaw in priorities. Here we are fighting a war against Islamic terrorism with many plots going on at the same time against America and here they are pulling over people who have bumper stickers they don’t like. If you look at the lexicon of that report, people who are strongly pro-life—that was something they were telling people to watch out for and possibly pull them over to question them.”

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