Pure Genius, I wonder how she figured all this out?
"One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens,"
ore than 120 people have been indicted in federal court on terror-related charges. About 50 of them were U.S. citizens
Dammit Janet, at least you seem to be catching on.
USA Today
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano offered a sobering assessment of the terror threat facing the United States on Wednesday, saying it was at perhaps the "most heightened state" since the Sept. 11 attacks nearly a decade ago.
Napolitano, appearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, said the threat from al-Qaeda, the group that planned the assaults in 2001, has been augmented by al-Qaeda-inspired groups and the emergence of homegrown radicals in the USA.
"One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens," she said. "We are now operating under the assumption, based on the latest intelligence and recent arrests, that individuals prepared to carry out terrorist attacks and acts of violence might be in the United States, and they could carry out acts of violence with little or no warning."
During the past two years, more than 120 people have been indicted in federal court on terror-related charges. About 50 of them were U.S. citizens, said Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., homeland committee chairman, citing Justice Department statistics.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
U.S. faces terror threat from within, Napolitano says
Monday, February 15, 2010
Janet Incompolitano karate chops islam out of terror review
A 108 page security review paper and islam isn't mentioned a single time.
Washington Times
The 108-page Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, made public last week by the Department of Homeland Security, uses the term "terrorist" a total of 66 times, "al Qaeda" five times and "violent extremism" or "extremist" 14 times. It calls on the U.S. government to "actively engage communities across the United States" to "stop the spread of violent extremism."
Yet in describing terrorist threats against the United States and the ideology that motivates terrorists, the review - like its sister document from the Pentagon, the Quadrennial Defense Review - does not use the words "Islam," "Islamic" or "Islamist" a single time. [...]
"There was not an active choice" to avoid using terms derivative of Islam, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Policy David Heyman told reporters on a conference call. President Obama had "made it clear as we are looking at counterterrorism that our principal focus is al Qaeda and global violent extremism, and that is the terminology and language that has been articulated" by Mr. Obama and his advisers, Mr. Heyman added. He declined to use the I-word.
Friday, January 29, 2010
"Where the hell is Secretary Napolitano?"
From CNS News:
"Top Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee publicly scolded Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for failing to show up at a Wednesday hearing where the committee examined the attempted Christmas Day suicide bombing of Northwest Flight 253. One Democrat on the committee said he wanted to know “where the hell” Napolitano was.
That evening, Napolitiano did prominently show up at the Capitol to attend President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. But earlier in the day, she dispatched Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute to testify on her behalf in the Homeland Security Committee on what went wrong in the homeland-security process that allowed would-be suicide-bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a plane bound from Amsterdam to the Detroit.
The committee has primary oversight over Napolitano’s department ..."
Thursday, January 28, 2010
What a snoozer. Janet Napolitano caught snoozing during Obama's SOTU speech
Janet Incompolitano catches some zzzz's during President Obama's State of the Union speech.
Via Yahoo! News
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Homeland Security too incompetent to carry out it's job says Inspector General
The Department of Homeland Security is “is functional only in name,” according to the Inspector General.
Janet Incompalitano. CNS
(CNSNews.com) – The Homeland Security Department’s National Operations Center (NOC) is “unable” to do its job of ensuring coordination among the 22 federal agencies that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and focuses too much on disaster management rather than terrorism prevention, according to its own inspector general.
The National Operations Center, in fact, functions largely in name only, and current operations apparently have diminished its ability to respond to terrorist threats.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
A Systematic Failure ?
And why does Janet Napolitano Still Have a job ?
How Many American lifes , have to be put in harms way before these jackass's understand the threat ?
In a blunt statement, Mr Obama said he wanted to know why a warning weeks ago from Mr Abdulmutallab's father did not lead to the accused being placed on a no-fly list.
"We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix flaws in the system," Mr Obama said.
"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could have cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred.
"And I consider that totally unacceptable."
Meanwhile, unnamed officials told the New York Times that Washington had intelligence from Yemen before Friday that a branch of al-Qaeda was discussing "a Nigerian" being prepared for an attack.
The intelligence did not include a name, although officials said it would have become clear had it been linked to information about Mr Abdulmutallab, the New York Times reported.
CIA spokesman George Little said the agency had become aware of Mr Abdulmutallab in November when his father visited the US embassy to seek help in finding him.
He said the agency had ensured the Nigerian's name was added to the government's terrorist database, and was forwarded to the National Counterterrorism Center.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Napolitano says 'system worked' with flight 253 attack
The 'system worked'? Are you freaking kidding me. The system completely broke down. The privileged terrorist was allowed on the plane without a passport.
And Napolitano has the nerve to say that the system worked. If it wasn't for the bomb failing and the flight passengers subduing the terrorist, things could have been different. Un-freaking-believable.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Napolitano warns of threat from al Qaeda sympathizers
A little late with the warning...huh? Boy, Janet sure is a quick one isn't she.
From Washington Post
Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night. [...]
"The fact is that home-based terrorism is here. And like violent extremism abroad, it is now part of the threat picture that we must confront," Napolitano said. "Individuals sympathetic to al-Qaeda and its affiliates, as well as those inspired by their ideology, are present in the U.S., and would like to attack the homeland or plot overseas attacks against our interests abroad."
Monday, November 16, 2009
Janet Napolitano says it's time to legalize illegal immigrants
Another brilliant idea from Napolitano. The Homeland Security Secretary has declared victory over border security so she's recommending that Congress pass a bill in 2010 to legalize illegal immigrants.
Huh? I dunno, I don't share Napolitano's optimism that border security is no longer an issue. Especially after reading this.
What could go wrong? Washington Times
Declaring success in border security and immigration enforcement, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the federal government has done its work and now it's time for Congress to pass a broad bill to legalize illegal immigrants. [...]Indeed.
Ms. Napolitano said members of Congress and voters who balked at an immigration bill two years ago, fearing a repeat of the 1986 amnesty that only made the problem worse, can be assured this time is different. She said in those two years, the flow of illegal immigrants across the border has dropped dramatically and the government is doing more to catch fugitive aliens inside the U.S.
"The security of the southwest border has been transformed from where it was in 2007," she said in a speech to the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. "The federal government has dedicated unprecedented resources to the Mexican border in terms of manpower, technology and infrastructure - and it's made a real difference."
But Republicans said her declaration of victory on border security was premature.
"How can they claim that enforcement is 'done' when there are more than 400 open miles of border with Mexico, hundreds of thousands of criminal and fugitive aliens and millions of illegal immigrants taking American jobs?" said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Janet Napolitano working to prevent anti-muslim backlash
Homeland Security would rather protect the muslim community from a non-existent anti-muslim backlash then actually protect Americans from radical muslims.
From AP
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas.
Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims following Thursday's rampage by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Hotel accomodations for detained illegal immigrants
Will that include room service? Reuters
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said illegal immigrants ranging from criminals to newly arrived asylum seekers would be held in different facilities according to the risk they pose.
"This is a system that encompasses many different types of detainees, not all of whom need to be held in prison-like circumstances," Napolitano told a conference call.
Referring to noncriminals such as newly arrived asylum seekers, Napolitano said, "We will begin efforts to house these populations near immigration service providers and pursue different options like converted hotels or residential facilities for their detention."
Napolitano Says Al Qaeda-Type Terrorists in U.S.
Another Statement from a Master of the obvious !
Homeland Security Secretary ,Janet Napolitano !
Foxnews....
Law enforcement authorities are tracking terrorists with Al Qaeda leanings in the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Bloomberg Television on Monday.
"It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to Al Qaeda-type beliefs," Napolitano told Bloomberg. "And so it makes information-sharing, it makes effective law enforcement and it makes the shared responsibility of law enforcement ever so important."
Napolitano told Bloomberg that since the Sept. 11 attacks, information between local, state and federal law enforcement agencies is "much improved."
But, she warned that the threat of an attack is "always with us," Bloomberg reported.
Napolitano said the combination of some Al Qaeda leaders being killed or caught, and their financing being traced or blocked, has prevented the terror group geographically.
She told Bloomberg its kept the main organization contained to northwestern Pakistan, but that they are using other affiliated groups to help plan attacks.
Nice paying attention there Janet !
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Canada chides U.S. for remarks on 9/11 plotters
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government moved on Tuesday to correct U.S. homeland security chief Janet Napolitano after she wrongly said some of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks had crossed into the United States from Canada.
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan -- who met with Napolitano in March -- said his aides had contacted her office on Tuesday after she made the remarks to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
"She was well aware at that time (in March) and understood clearly that none of the 9/11 terrorists came across the Canadian border into the United States ... We confirmed with her office this morning that she continues to be well aware of that," Van Loan told reporters.
Napolitano raised concerns in Canada with remarks indicating she wants to clamp down on border security, which businesses fear could throttle vital trade flows.
She told the CBC on Monday that "to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border".
Asked if she was referring to the 9/11 plotters, she replied: "Not just those but others as well."
Van Loan said Napolitano had been speaking about Algerian-born Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested in December 1999 as he crossed into the United States from Canada with a car carrying explosives.
Ressam was sentenced to 22 years in jail in July 2005 for plotting to set off a bomb at Los Angeles airport on December 31, 1999.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist group
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security will never monitor ideology or political beliefs, the head of the agency said Wednesday, responding to criticism of a recent report on right-wing extremist groups
"Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a written statement.
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sounds like some pretty tough words to Me!
to bad they are just spoken towards the wrong people !
There have been numerous tragedies committed by Americans with no relations to the military ! Many school shootings , and the events of the beltway sniper have caused great fear and trauma to many people , like a terrorist attack would do ! none were related to the veterans of the united states !
However, it said, "Despite similarities to the climate of the 1990s, the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years."
It warned that the groups may use proposed restrictions on firearms and the debate on immigration as recruiting tools, and said the groups may try to reach out to veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I would sooner entrust my well being to a Veteran , any day of the week than to trust nitwits that can't see that Al Qaida , The Taliban , Somali Pirates , And Mexican drug cartels , are by far a bigger threat than any Man or Woman in Uniform Has ever Been !
