One of these jobs is not like the others
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| New teammates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James L. Jones, Janet Napolitano and Susan Rice (EPA/Anne Ryan/Pool) |
When President-elect Barack Obama raised the diaphanous curtain on his national-security team on Monday, I was reminded of the Sesame Street ditty "One of These Things (Is Not Like The Others)." The roll call went: Hillary "It's 3 a.m." Clinton as secretary of state; Robert "Vicar of Bray" Gates as secretary of defense; Susan Rice as chief representative to the U.N.; Gen. James Jones as national security adviser; Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary; and Eric Holder as attorney general.
Huh?
Since when is the attorney general part of the national security team? Granted, the Justice Department prosecutes accused terrorists and traitors, and the FBI -- which defines protection of the nation from terrorist attack as its No. 1 priority -- exists uneasily under the DOJ aegis. But the attorney general's brief is much broader than national security, comprising anti-trust law; civil rights; liaison with state and local law enforcement in the investigation of bank robberies and street crime; and the defense of federal statutes in the Supreme Court.
More cosmically, the mission of DOJ is symbolized two statues -- one of a woman called the Spirit of Justice, the other of a man known as the Majesty of the Law. Neither is depicted as studying military maps or listening in on phone calls from suspected terrorists.
Obama's grouping of Holder with Clinton, Gates et al. is particularly perplexing in light of the new president's policy positions. While not endorsing the L.A. Times' proposal that all accused terrorists be tried in ordinary criminal courts, Obama has promised to close Guantanamo and his aides have told reporters that some, if not all, detainees will be processed through the criminal justice system. One of the changes that some Obama supporters believed in was an end to the Bush-Cheney policy of subordinating the pursuit of justice to the war on terror.
An alternative explanation for Holder's inclusion in the national security cluster is more benign: that Obama wanted to remind diehard Cheneyites that the war on terror can't be fought with a blind eye to civil liberties. But is drafting the AG on to the national security team the best way to send that message? Surely the transition team could have afforded to hold a separate get-acquainted session for the nation's top law-enforcement official.
Sleep tight, America. Get ready for the North American Union under Napolitano and Obama, and the 111th Congress, that's pretty clear.
We have had the technology for an environmental friendly border fence for over 50 years....with lazer infrared technology all that is needed is posts and invisible lazer lights. Not Napolitano's ridiculous comments on 50 foot walls.....that is in order to gain sympathy for her illegal buddies and voters (Arizona does have the highest identity theft in the nation, by the way). Our former chief protector of national security, Bush created this agency (rather than securing our borders prior to even setting foot on foreign soil, as an attack from within by expired visa holders), and now six years later has expanded the Homeland Security Department to a whopping 100,000 new agents at $70,000 a pop plus benefits, who by the way are corruptible to boot. There is big money in the
auto theft rings, drug trafficking, and property crimes going on by the border hoppers, and the human smuggling rings. They may catch a few, but how many agents are cutting a cut of the action and being paid off. A fence is not corruptible as a human is, and can be done at minimal cost.
Now, as one of Chertoff and Bush's final acts in office, instead have opened our borders under a VISA waiver programs to over 40 different countries with free pass VISAs. We are another 9/11 waiting to happen. If you doubt my word, check the CBP website for the information on the free VISA
waiver program. Expect Napolitano to increase the numbers of visa for the CAFTA countries - and watch more heroin and cocaine pour into this country. I think most of those politicians are getting campaign contributions from those involved in the drug trafficking - she may be an ex prosecuting attorney, but is a Lewis and Roca lawyer alumnist whose criminal defense lawyers are paid with a great many of those drug proceeds.
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>It's the underground economy, and Washington is not about to give it up - or Arizona.
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>Napolitano's illegal immigrant support has risked our national security, and also caused untold millions to Arizonans with her ridiculous stances. It is
just too bad that Arizonans have not figured out that there is a Constitutional provision that REQUIRES the federal government to secure our borders and provide for the common defense - in fact, it is the feds main functions. And all either the citizens or the legislature has to do is sue the feds for the money in order to secure it with virtual fencing, if you will, or lazer light fencing - environmentally friendly to boot - and also cut our tax burden. The Dept. of Homeland Security has over 180,000 employees - and Nappy will rape that treasury just as she did Arizonas for her own political gain and purposes. >Sue the feds for the money to secure those borders before another 9/11 occurs - which WILL happen eventually. A country without secure borders is really no country
at all. And this woman is the devil incarnate in her disregard for her fellow countrymen, proven in her governorship of Arizona - and will ultimately be confirmed by how she supports "commerce" rather than "security" in her new position. So far, her stabs at homeland security in Arizona have merely resulted in stationing all local law enforcement officials on holidays and weekends outside the local sports bars and restaurants to lock up the social drinking crowd - a severe threat to public safety as promoted by the now prohibitionist MADD crowd.
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>I'm sure McCain is loving having a kindred soul now in that position.
Posted by: Betsy Ross | December 02, 2008 at 04:08 PM