As I’ve stated before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security was unnecessary. President Bush should have never have pushed to create the department. Better information cooperation between the FBI and CIA should have been the lesson. Instead we have another buearcracy. Now that Obama is president he’s put a complete idiot in charge. Secretary Janet Napolitan has no business running the department. I expect the White House will soon be putting a muzzle on Napolitan.
In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that “suspected or known terrorists” have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack.
All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked. Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: “I can’t talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here’s the future. The future is we have borders.”
What is she talking about? These are the ramblings of a person who has no business running a major department in the government. Certainly there has to be someone who is at least competent. I’ll settle for someone who is at least relatively informed about recent history.
the republicans used the same misleading notion about border security to raise the spectre of illegal immigration from mexico. politics of fear.