Meet The New Homeland Security Boss -- National PostIt’s difficult to overstate just how badly Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano comes off in her train wreck of an interview with the CBC’s Neil Macdonald, which was broadcast on last night’s The National. The juiciest excerpts follow:
NM: A couple of weeks ago, … you cited a feeling in the United States that if things—this is a quote—"are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border. We shouldn't go light on one border and not on the other."
You know, 6,000 civilians were killed in drug violence in Mexico last year. They export kidnappings. I think we can all agree that's not happening in Saskatchewan. Why the need for same level of security on the Canadian border as on the Mexican border given two drastically different realities?
JN: Look, the comment you read of course was taken out of context. The law doesn't differentiate. The law says the borders are the borders and these are the kind of things that have to be done at the borders.
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Update: The Border For Dummies -- National Post
Update #2: Border comments spark diplomatic kerfuffle -- CTV
My Comment: I saw this interview (I live in Canada), and it is worse than what the transcript shows. But what can one say when the U.S. has a Homeland Security Boss who is more concerned about justifying reports that target right wing U.S. citizens or returning vets as "possible" terrorists .... but tells officers in her own department to not target illegals who are entering the country.
As a Canadian .... I am perplexed that this person can have such an important job. As a person who observes and studies American politics/history/and military affairs very closely .... I am not surprised.