If you haven’t heard yet Napolitano is stepping down to run Univ of CA. That’s a bit of an odd job change wouldn’t you say?! I hope the republicans will capitalize off of this and really vet whomever the emperor appoints to replace her when time comes for confirmation hearings. If that man or woman is not tough on border security, that one issue alone, should be reason enough to not confirm. The second big item on the list should be that the next candidate acknowledge the true threats from radical islam.
During the confirmation hearings the nominee could simply be asked if they believe the Ft Hood killing was work place violence or a terror attack? See it’s not rocket science, but for our “elected leaders” to come up with such tough questioning well these two items to be asked would be a miracle!
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Homeland Security chief Napolitano to resign
Fox News
Janet Napolitano is resigning as head of the Homeland Security Department and seeking a post as president of the University of California, the long-time Obama confidant announced Friday.
Officials told Fox News that Napolitano does not plan to leave her post until September. But she announced the move on Friday after it began to break in the media, revealing that she has been nominated to lead the California university system.
“For more than four years I have had the privilege of serving President Obama and his Administration as the Secretary of Homeland Security,” she said in a statement. “The opportunity to work with the dedicated men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, who serve on the frontlines of our nation’s efforts to protect our communities and families from harm, has been the highlight of my professional career. We have worked together to minimize threats of all kinds to the American public.”
Napolitano has ridden out a rocky tenure, having endured a string of lawsuits and multiple controversies regarding the agencies that DHS oversees. Among the complaints, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accused the department leadership in a lawsuit of failing to properly enforce immigration law. Their complaints center on the practice of using “prosecutorial discretion” — allowing department lawyers to selectively determine which immigrants to pursue for deportation, and which to let go. Her aides claimed it was a matter of prioritizing resources, though some agents claimed it ran afoul of immigration law.
Napolitano’s department later enacted a Dream Act-style policy giving young illegal immigrants a reprieve.
“Secretary Napolitano’s tenure at the Department of Homeland Security was defined by a consistent disrespect for the rule of law,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., one of her chief critics, said in a statement…more