via Hot Air: House GOP: Napolitano must go
Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.
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.
As a former governor of a border state during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks she should have known this for years. As the current head of the DHS she should really know it without thinking. But it seems par for the course for Obama appointees.
Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday said he believed some of the 9/11 hijackers entered the United States from Canada, triggering a new round of frustration and anger among Canadian government officials only days after a similar remark by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Mr. McCain, an Arizona senator who has championed free trade ties with Canada, told Fox News Ms. Napolitano was accurate when she suggested the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington crossed into the U.S. across the Canadian border.
As a senator from a border state (same border state as Napolitano), and national security pretensions, a presidential candidate, and a former officer, he should know this in his sleep. Reminds me of all the good times.
Despite all the wind at their backs the democrats had, and how much Obama is “The One”, he lost because he didn’t deserve to win.
Oh, and he should tell his daughter to get some class and put a sock in it.
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