Napolitano Defends Clapper’s Ignorance of UK Terror Arrests
- Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:52pm by
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says people should “be fair” to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper after he revealed in an interview last week that he was unaware of a string of terror arrests that happened in Britain hours prior.
Clapper had been working on Capitol Hill on issues involving START and North Korea and went into the interview before his briefer had a chance to relay the information, Napolitano told CNN Sunday.
Asked if the revelation that Clapper wasn’t in the loop was disconcerting, Napolitano said all Homeland Security officials that needed to know were informed.
When CNN host Candy Crowley said the lack of awareness might leave Americans “a little disconcerted,” Napolitano insisted there was no problem beyond the PR screwup.
“I knew. John Brennan knew. We also knew there was no connect that had been perceived to anything going on in the homeland and that we were in perfect connectivity with our colleagues in Britain,” she said. “So one of the things I think that should be very clear to the American people is that those of us in Homeland Security who needed to know, we knew.”
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Comments (96)
BoilitDown
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:44amAnything further that Napolitano pronounces must be considered irrelevant as it relates to substantive protection of our country. Her words and actions need only to be scrutinized for clues to the administration’s skewed agendas. This is the sum total of her value to the citizens of the United States. She is only a character in the Federal Government’s theater.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:14amFire Napolitano.
Then fire her boss.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:04amHere’s a video on Hamas-linked CAIR.
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths but to become dominant.
The Koran, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth!”
~Omar Ahmad, Co-Founder, CAIR~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP-czMu73uU
Here’s another video about the Muslim Brotherhood, the stealth Sharia and Jihad shadow organization behind CAIR:
http://www.vimeo.com/18014677
If you want to become informed about stealth Sharia and stealthJihad in America and it’s 35 terrorist camps on our soil please join us at the ADL (American Defense League) today. We aim to do something about it and to demand that the dhimmis in our government, whose CIC says we can absorb another terrorist attack and that we should accept this Hamas-linked Imam Rauf’s request to build a victory mosque near Gound Zero where they mass-murdered 3000 Americans, act now to protect us! Here’s the link:
http://www.facebook.com/AmericanDefenceLeague
The ADL is just one of many Defense Leagues that have popped up all over the world, starting with the EDL (English Defence League) in England, where we the people intend to do something about Islamofascism which is turning our countries into armed camps and eating away at our freedoms bit by bit, drip by drip. We think 270 million non-Muslims killed under the sword of Islamofascism since the advent of Islam 1400 years ago is enough! What about you?
Report Post »Leetron
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:37amWell, well. As a professional investigator and interrogator, it is VERY obvious to me Napolitano is lying. Not only didn’t Clapper know anything about the arrests in Britain, neither did she. This is truly a pathetic lot – and the most frightening thing is these fools are IN CHARGE of Homeland Security – and Napolitano is nothing more than a POLITICAL HACK appointed by Obama to reward her for her support during the election. She was a mindless piece of dog doodie before her appointment and remains so now. I only pray our folks in the field can continue to protect us in spite of her VAST deficiencies and total lack of experience and leadership.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:42amNo reason…and no excuse……to keep these people employed…..to maintain our safety. These fruitcakes are dangerous.
Ever time their screwups surface, and cause for their resignations…….all of a sudden we the people have another manmade crisis
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Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:58amIt gives me little comfort to know that John Brennan knew. Don’t make me laugh out loud. This is the same guy who referred to Jerusalem as al Quds! He’s probably rooting for the Islamofascists who want to blow up everything.
And, Napolitano? Well, she’s another laughing stock! She thinks the border is secure and they’re chopping up people down there. I just looked at a photograph where there were only trunks left of the bodies and bloodied heads strewn all over the ground. This woman needs to step down asap. She’s a disgrace to all America, and she doesn’t have our interests in mind.
How many gaffs do these people have to make before we get serious about demanding that they step down?
Where are the Republicans in Congress who are demanding accountability from these dhimmis who are condoning a Hamas-linked CAIR organization to determine who’s teaching our kids in the schools and colleges in America and using our taxpayer monies to send their Hamas-linked Imams over to the Middle East to raise funds for their victory mosque near Ground Zero after killing 3000 people there, not to mention allowing them to raise money for Hamas in a mosque in Florida?
Who the heck do these people take us for? They think they can take our taxpayer money and give us a few scraps and expect us to sit back while their CIC says that we can absorb another terrorist attack!
Vote the dhimmis out! And, then do it all over again, every year! Until they’re cleansed of their dhimmitude and we can get to work fighting this war that the Islamofascists have waged against us. We are not going to bow down to Mecca and kneel on their bloodied mats like they would have us do! And, we’re NOT GOING TO ACCEPT ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK ON AMERICA!
Got it? Dhimmis!
Report Post »alshere
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:40amNot telling the security guy is like not telly the chicken the fox in the hen house!!! This woman is so stupid she would jump in the creek to get out of the rain.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:33amya…ummm..one word………….. TWIT
sad thing is its a TWIT with some power
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:30am@CHEEZWHIZ Dec. 26, 2010 11:10 p.m.
What she is saying: We know it didn’t happen here because we saw on Fox News that it happened in London. We are busy looking at the X-Ray pictures taken by the TSA to make sure that London didn’t overlook anybody.
Report Post »tbear44
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:27amAll Nappytano cares about is effing global warming. Someone needs to give her a swift kick in the ass!
Report Post »fordfan
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:10amIt’s a simple fact that the Director of National Intelligence is unintelligent along with Big Sis and Brennan. And….there are so many government people in these departments now that they can’t keep up with them to know who to brief and it would take a month to brief them all if they did. I think everyone should be FORCED to take care of THEMSELVES and fire all of these MORONS!
Report Post »DeltaHawk
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 12:37amShe didn’t know it either. Pray, buy Ammo ! People who don’t believe in God will believe anything else!
What the hell would she know about connectivity? She doesn’t know her ass from a hole in the ground!
Report Post »IVillageIdiot
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 12:27amTHIS… is the principal reason, you don’t appoint political hacks to security positions.
She is trying to solve the only problem she sees and is capable of solving, the political fallout. The REAL problem, how is it that the MAIN function we’re paying for and expect to be carried out with the utmost confidence and professionalism (because it is life and death… HELLO!??!?!) was not only missed proving we’re all in less than competent hands, but apparently is not even being covered in briefings or the briefing aren’t taking place for those making the decisions?
Methinks that there is a real good chance… that the decisions being made are 100% politically orientated, and so the briefings aren’t really needed in their eyes!
Report Post »dlmstl
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 12:25amVery disturbing! Watched the video twice. He bobbled the question not once but twice! Even Sawyer was taken aback by this display. A ‘deer in the headlight’ moment would be putting it lightly!! Brennan put a good spin on it and somewhat salvaged the situation. He has a hearing aid and at first I thought he may have missed the question but he looked just as baffled the second time. Most people in his position would be better ‘on their feet’ bs-ing their way through unknown territory. He maybe the proverbial ‘fish out of water’ character. Where do they find these people and what is he paid?!!!!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 12:23amF.Y.I…go to helium.com and in the search box type: Inside TSA Scanners
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 12:35amAnother F.Y.I. (I know this is off topic…but wanted to post it anyway)…re: TSA Scanners
http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
Report Post »bcullum1952
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 12:15amSo DHS knew that the arrests had taken place. But Chief of National Intelligence did not. Clapper advises the President. Napolitano oversees pat-downs and body scans, border security, passes for illegals and disaster response. Seems like the disconnect in the Obama Administration wasn’t important to DHS. It was important to us “ordinary citizens”. Makes us wonder just how much information falls between the cracks.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:29amThe disconnect in the Obumbler administration is the disconnect form reality.
Report Post »reckless
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:36pmIs there anything else that some people don’t need to know?
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:32pmC’mon. The guy is the Director of NATIONAL Inteligence. Things happening in Britain are obviously INTERnational, so why should he know THAT?
Here I am spending time and money finishing a PhD so that I can earn 30 grand a year at best as a teacher when these people can draw massive federal salaries with no more intelligence than your average whino.
Report Post »So
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:29pmFirst she’ll defend him. Then she will punish the dissenters.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 12:04amLike that pilot out of SFO who posted video on youtube of the
Report Post »T housands
S tanding
A round
terryinlasvegas
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 9:14amShe’s lousy at defense, but very good at punishment…
Report Post »So
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:24pmIgnorance defending ignorance.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:13pmTakes a moron to defend a moron. She is beneath disgusting.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:07pmAren’t we paying these buttheads to know things like this?
Report Post »bulletsinthegun
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:02pmAn idiot defending an idiot, Why is this becoming the norm????
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:02pmHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says people should “be fair” to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
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Oh ye Incompetant Nopales,
Report Post »Why don’t you try to be fair to non-muslim American citizens ?
Liberty_Forever
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:00pmI was watching when this little “incident” took place and I know I was D*MNED concerned: How could the Director of National Intelligence NOT know terror arrests took place in England? Am I the only one who thinks that oh, I don’t know, it could be linked to bigger plans that may include OUR country. Ms. Napolitano, save your breath your excuses are weak and, thank you Mr. Clapper for making the title “Director of National Intelligence” look like an oxymoron to the world.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:12pmIts Director of National Ignorance ..
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:21pmDepartment of
Report Post »Nopalitano’s
Incompetance
Xcori8r
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 10:53amIt wouldn’t surprise anybody if Clappers next down in hierarchy is out looking for a job about now. Clapper probably doesn’t pay too much attention to little things like national media.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:26amThis administration is just one big poor excuse. It must have been Bush’s fault.
Report Post »LSX
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:54pmNext – how is she going to defend HER ignorance?
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 10:58pmLet’s see..
Report Post »Doc_Slammin
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:04pmI so wish I was this woman’s boss so I could have the pleasure of firing her.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:10pmWe also knew there was no connect that had been perceived to anything going on in the homeland and that we were in perfect connectivity with our colleagues in Britain,” she said.
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Huh ?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:14pm“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for”. And that is her problem.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:28pmNothing new here. We all knew they will stick together and watch each others back. I think Napolitano is a very evil woman. She has that cold look to her.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:36pmOh, that really is his name.
AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
Report Post »jds7171
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:36pmThey yell at tony blair for not knowing what was going on the oil rig, but they make excuses for a guy who is suppose to know what is going on in the defense of the nation. These people are ignorant.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 11:56pmThis is the best we can do? SAD…. :- (
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:35amAnother incompetant talking head who got her pay off for being a mega brown noser for Obama.
Report Post »canuck44
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 7:07amShe is living proof that you can’t pick a turd up by the clean end.
What a difference from her successor Governor Brewer….the latter is doing a tremendous job of restoring the state from years of Democrat mismanagement.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 7:19amA lying, bumbling idiot, defending an uninformed fool…..now, it’s just getting sad…..
Report Post »Hermeneuticals
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 7:46am1 – She has to realize she’s ignorant
2 – She woudn’t be capable of defending herself
Napolitano is actually a lot like Obama. Talks a lot and says little with frequent contradictions, it just gets tiring dealing with her which is how she gets away with so much.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 9:12amhttp://www.infowars.com/big-sis-strikes-back-agents-raid-home-of-pilot-critical-of-tsa/
Report Post »OH, I Get It!
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 9:29am“No I haven’t read the Arizona Immigration Bill,”, She already tried to defend herself.
Report Post »Phoenixsoulfire
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 10:48amlol you beat me to it.
They make a mistake, it is a learning experience tea party or repubs make a mistake. We are in bed with satan inbred insestual people
Report Post »4CueB
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:08pm################@@@@@@@@@@@@@################
Still an arrogant, lesbian *******……………Buon Natale, Bigggg Cyst!
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 6:22pmAs you go up the ladder in Homeland Security you find dumb and dumber. When you get to the top, you find dumbest. TSA ditto.
Report Post »kreese
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 11:34amObama is not that smart—he made sure those around him were dumber. Does the name “Biden” come to mind.
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