‘Big Sis’ Napolitano Says Drudge Report ‘Just Wrong’ on Privacy Fears
- Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:11pm by
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Director of Homeland Security Janet "Big Sis" Napolitano
Director of Homeland Security Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano has a bone to pick with Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge about privacy fears apparently stoked on his news site. That said, she has mixed feelings about her Orwellian nickname. In fact, she kind of likes it.
In an interview with Politico.com, the DHS Chief completely dismissed notions that her branch of the federal government tramples on civil liberties. On the contrary, Napolitano said:
“I think that what he means is we are watching too much—kind of an Orwellian view. He’s just wrong. I mean, he’s just wrong. We want to be conscious of civil liberties and civil rights protections—and we are, we don’t do anything without kind of running it through our own civil rights and privacy office. We’re one of only two departments in the federal government that actually has a presidentially-appointed privacy office and officer.”
For many, the self-licking ice cream cone of an internal DHS civil rights office may not inspire a huge vote of confidence. One could even process the secretary’s answer in this way: Of course the organization that has brought us “enhanced screening procedures“ would need some sort of privacy, otherwise who would get re-assigned after all the federal lawsuits?
Matt Drudge
But the Secretary is sticking to her guns, so to speak, and claimed that the full body airport scanners are becoming even more respectful of privacy. Instead of showing a full, naked body image, the new iteration of the scanners will apparently show a stick figure with a region of the body that requires further scrutiny (perhaps with an enhanced pat-down).
The head of Homeland Security also defended the proliferation of surveillance cameras across the country, claiming they are a “very, very helpful methodology, particularly in areas where we know there are constant threats.”
As for being called “Big Sis,” Napolitano said getting your own nickname is an honor of sorts. She claimed that she may have a nickname for Matt Drudge, but decided not to share it.
And the good news? According to Politico, Napolitano said you may not have to take your shoes off much longer at the airport. But that bottle of shampoo you left in your carry-on will be confiscated for the foreseeable future.
(h/t Politico)
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Comments (134)
Countrygirl1362
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:50pmShe is a liar just like her boss. All runs in the family.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:01pmTrue CountryGirl. As for her comment:
“…we don’t do anything without kind of running it through our own civil rights and privacy office.”
Without KIND OF? And running it through their OWN civil rights and privacy office? You mean the one that trampled on the rights to begin with? Heifer.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:02pmAnything this bunch of fools put out just believe exactly the opposite and you will be right on track. Yes, they are watching, just not the right people, not the ones who would fly planes into buildings, just the ones they fear are a threat to their power.
Please Janet, we aren’t a stupid as the people who put your boss into office.
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:09pmI think Big Sis and Chaz Bono should be partners on DWTS . Who’s with me ???
Report Post »chalkdust
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:10pm“We want to be conscious of civil liberties and civil rights protections—and we are, we don’t do anything without kind of running it through our own civil rights and privacy office. We’re one of only two departments in the federal government that actually has a presidentially-appointed privacy office and officer.”
Oh, so you are your own watch dog. That fills me with confidence. How this guy got to be Secretary of Homeland Security is an enigma. Drudge is not wrong. Big sis is out of control.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:25pmWhy do they refer to this man as ‘big sis’ and why is he wearing earrings and lipstick ?
Report Post »Wayne
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:36pmIs this a man or woman or it??????? no wonder we are having problems with Homeland Security after looking at this.she can’t look this bad and be smart.
Report Post »Emrys
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:37pmOf course they use Orwellian as a derrogatory term; Communists, Socialists, Fascists, and all other totalitarians do! And they hate it when the masses recognize them for what they are. Of Course they deny it! meh!
Report Post »palmettopalflorida
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:38pmExcellent, PROBIEMSOIVER, simply excellent.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:43pmIndeed, you cannot trust anyone like her and the sheer audacity for the security fraud and civil rights violations that keep happening.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 5:24pmMarci
Report Post »You missed an important part of the statement!
We’re one of only two departments in the federal government that actually has a presidentially-appointed privacy office and officer.”
presidentially-appointed
That says it all!
Servant Of YHVH
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 5:39pm“She claimed that she may have a nickname for Matt Drudge, but decided not to share it.”
Report Post »Actually most of us have a nickname for her and it’s NOT “big sis”. We won’t share it either because it is not clean enough for use in public.
The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:49pmHehe…TheBlaze screwed up and put up a photo of Jerry Lewis…lol. Oh…wait…
Report Post »PineyWoods
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:42pmI’m with you! When I saw that picture, I thought OMG, Secretary Napolitano forgot to shave this morning!!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:49pmUncle Janet!! I love it!!!! Never heard that one! I can’t breathe! Insane laughter! Hey Ingraham, do your impression of Uncle Janet on your show tomorrow.
Oh, and get ‘em all, Drudge! You rock.
Report Post »jackbauer
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 5:50pmUncle Jerry, I mean Janet, are you listening? I know you are there, aren’t ya. We just luv being looked at by U! U R soooooo important, aren’t ya? U R keeping us sooooo safe, dontchaknow. Tell us, all knowing, all seeing one, why do we feel sooooo violated?
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:47pmI‘ve noticed this woman’s rise in Arizona. From what I’ve noticed, she is vicious and would surprise me greatly if she genuinely cares about our privacy.
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:04pmThis_Individual
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:47pm
I‘ve noticed this woman’s rise in Arizona. From what I’ve noticed, she is vicious and would surprise me greatly if she genuinely cares about our privacy.
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That you ENTERTAIN the thought that she MIGHT “genuinely care about our privacy” scares me!!!
Awww… I HAVE to tease you for THAT! Bless your sweet little naive heart. I have some darling aunts like you. We need people like you to remember what USED to be normal. You are still normal – the world you live in now, just isn’t normal with you.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 7:13amShe’s in the Obama Administration! Hello!
Report Post »staggerlee32
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:47pm“It” was on TV the other day and I asked my daughters (4 & 6) if that was a man or woman speaking on TV, and they both said a man. She’s like Pat the androgynous charactor on SNL.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:49pmTrue image of “LIPSTICK ON A PIG”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:04pmIf she was dancing with Chaz Bono, who would lead?
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:05pmSuch a perfect Nail!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:18pmSome people see Jesus on a tortilla.
Report Post »I saw Janet on a run over armadilla.
team1blazer
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:45pmHey Incompetano, SEAL OUR BORDERS! TWIT
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:45pmI think several places on her face just twitch all the time. Like her eye and her eyebrow, and her corner of her mouth and her cheek bone…
I think she wears a monocle when she is not near cameras.
I think she has an inflatable doll in the image of Joseph Mengele in drag as Eva Braun.
Report Post »onyxsky101
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:42pmAnd BIG SIS is the authority on privacy, riiiiiiiight. If you believe that I have a nice, new , shiny, never been used bridge to sell ya! Forgive me for not taking you at your word moron!
Report Post »Coulterr
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:40pmThis from the person that can’t find millions of people in the country illegally. Amazing.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:56pmBut during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. Maybe we should give each of them a cow?
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:37pmJanet Incompitano? I don’t know how these people sleep at night. Their total existence is a lie—24/7 …
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:42pmPut these cameras in the Whitehouse. America’s biggest threat comes from the current inhabitants
Report Post »Therese
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 8:02pmLet us not forget she has stated “We Sleep Fast”. When asked if her or her administration get any sleep. That should comfort all Americans.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:35pmAnd our borders are safer than they have Ever Been, right Janet…
Report Post »DNoyce
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:33pmAirport security is a bunch of crap! My wife was pulled aside and treated like a terrorist suspect while burka wearing middle Easterners were waved through. All of this because my wife travels with a cup of yogurt to stave off hypoglycemia! While they searched, four new lip sticks were confiscated from her. This is all a feel good scam for progressive bed wetters. Airport security are thieve and couldn’t stop a concerted effort by terrorists if they faced one. I believe 90% of the “officers” are over weight, or over the hill. No wonder other countries laugh at us. We no longer put forth an image of capability, but an image of weakling misfits!
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:31pmI never believe anything that comes out of her mouth
all you have to do is look into her eyes and
you get the real picture!
she deserves her nickname
Report Post »it suits her…O so’well-ian ways!
AvengerK
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:39pmDidn’t Janet Incompetano tell us “the system worked” when passengers on an airliner had to wrestle a terrorist to the ground who had escaped detection from airport security?
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:41pmShe’s no “Big Sis”.
Report Post »Big Daddy, maybe…Big Brother..100%.
She and Monicne are probably one and the same person.
Kerri g
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:31pmSeems like her own privacy and civil rights office is not doing their job. Seems they have never read the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. You know that part about being secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause and so on. So big sis, where IS our privacy and our security in our person? ooops. Better go back to the drawing board. You have usurped the Constitution of the United States of America and civil and criminal law. How does that happen in this country?
Report Post »PoliticalSmackdown {Subscribe & Friend me on YouTube}
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:27pmThat Napolitano is one Handsome Guy!
Report Post »THE-FINAL-ACT
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:35pmstudmuffin
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:27pmSomehow, I don’t believe Uncle Janet.
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:25pmI always wondered why all the intrusive scanning, etc at the airport when she and others could care less about the insecure borders. They have no idea who is coming over, enemies or other unknowns. My big sis would have done anything to protect me as I would her.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:25pmAh yes, this from the agency that seized 80,000 internet domains along with ICE (huh?) last year for 3 days – most of which were doing nothing illegal. http://www.dotweekly.com/when-mooo-com-was-seized-by-ice-80k-subdomains-affected/
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:42pmThanks BenInNY, I didn’t know that. I swear, I learn more from reading comments/links than I learn from reading Blaze articles.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:25pmSo I guess Drudge is going to be on the homegrown terrorist watch list.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 8:31pmAnd he’ll get a viait from the IRS
Report Post »paying-for-freedom
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:25pmNothing like having an immoral bull **** looking after the civil rights of us crazy religious people!!! The government has become a joke!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, so far the joke is one us!
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:25pmshe is one big ugly lesbian i ve ever seen , grosses me out to look at her
Report Post »Sy Kosys
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:12pmI dunno…Janet Reno and (s)he make a compelling pair….
….compelling a bowel movement from my mouth
Report Post »Sy Kosys
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:20pmNothing to see here…move along….move along…..
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:26pmwe don’t do anything without kind of running it through our own civil rights and privacy office. We’re one of only two departments in the federal government that actually has a presidentially-appointed privacy office and officer
Is that bthe same civil rights department that determined it was within governmental power to require people purchase healthcare or face fines.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:19pmDrudge is notoriously disrespectful, and Miss Napolitano is extremely gracious to take this all in stride.
I believe the DHS should be disbanded because it is just big government created to make us “feel better” after 9/11.
For example, it would be 1,000 times cheaper and 100 times more effective to just let airline passengers control airport security instead of having 50,000 TSA agents with equipment at 450 airports.
TEA
PS Drudge can laugh all the way to the bank. He is an entertainer not a newsman.
drago
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:30pmYou again kid? I thought i told you to stay in your moms basement playing warcraft,anf to stfu, moron.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:31pmIF Drudge is “notoriously disrespectful” (a concession I DO NOT make), then what is Keith Olbermann? And is he an “entertainer” or a “newsman”? You lefties can dish it out, but you sure as hell can’t take it. *******.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:42pmThe sound of flatulence you hear is MONACNE posting again.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:42pmThe notorious muckraker Olbermann is a card carrying UNION entertainer. He used to be a sports announcer before he was hired to pretend to be a left wing politico.
Little Kieth belongs to “The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.” Union representing professional actors, dancers, singers, and broadcasters.
TEA
MODEL82A1
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:54pmOK, ENCINOM, why don’t you give us all a good belly laugh and name for us one, Bona-Fide, MONICNE-Endorsed “newsman”. This oughta be good.
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:55pmToo Funny! Whoever writes this material should go to Vegas. LOL!
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:42pmSniper; I am sure you know there are thousands of journalists, who like Buck Sexton, who put in an honest days work responding to news events with truth and fact.
There are also the Radio and TV spin doctors at MSNBC, FOX, EIB and GBTV whose only aim is ratings, not the truth. They are Union broadcast personalities responsible for ratings. If they harm the network, they get cancelled.
And, I do not take assignments – do your own homework. TEA
AvengerK
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 5:35pmMore flatulence from MONACNE. Somebody open a window.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:18pmThe only Napolitano I like is JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO and he would tell you what the CONSTITUTION says regarding your actions, big sis!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 5:14pmSorry wrong clip. here is the one that has Judge Napolitano endorsing RON PAUL !!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg3EptrKOms
The RON PAUL movement is EXPLODING !!!!!
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:17pm“self-licking ice cream cone”
Report Post »Hey no jokes about her sex life okay?
squeaker
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:26pmunbelievable – she has a sex life…..un oh… I think I just barfed..!
Report Post »Homeschoolmama
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:28pmYou made me LOL, doesn’t happen often
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 3:47pmULYSSES…I just threw up in my mouth…
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 4:35pmAre they implying this man is a ‘big sis’ because he wears earrings and lipstick ?
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