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DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns
schwit1 writes with news that the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has resigned her post. Napolitano entered the office at the beginning of President Obama's first term, and she was only the third person to hold the position since it was created in response to the September 11th attacks. In a statement, she said the Department of Homeland Security "has improved the safety of travelers; implemented smart steps that make our immigration system more fair and focused while deploying record resources to protect our nation's borders; worked with states to build resiliency and make our nation's emergency and disaster response capabilities more robust; and partnered with the private sector to improve our cybersecurity." Napolitano will be taking over the presidency of the University of California's 10-campus education system. "UC officials believe that her Cabinet experiences –- which include helping to lead responses to hurricanes and tornadoes and overseeing some anti-terrorism measures — will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas."
"They said 'California is the place you outta be' so she loaded up he spooks and she moved to Beverly..."
I'd say "good riddance!", but I'm fully confident that the administration will find some crony just as eager to continue our security theater.
Its going fantastically after $100 BILLION/10 years spent. Well done results are fantastic. See immigration reform = surveillance reform as military tactics move inland from US borders
GFY Janet, you fascist, power-grabbing hooligan.
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"implemented smart steps"
With the huge pile of body scanners sitting unused in warehouses thanks to DHS's wild (and illegal) binge on ineffective and invasive scanning technology, I have a hard time with their using the phrase "smart steps". In fact it's so bad, it almost seems like an inside joke. Not funny. And Janet? You make me sick
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"UC officials believe that her Cabinet experiences –- which include helping to lead responses to hurricanes and tornadoes and overseeing some anti-terrorism measures — will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas."
It's a good thing there's no need to have the head of a university system have experience in anything like education or research. All that matters is those security-industry connections!
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has improved the safety of travelers;
Prove a negative. Nice.
implemented smart steps that make our immigration system more fair and focused while deploying record resources to protect our nation's borders;
So...nothing. No, wait! Nothing, but we spent "record resources" achieving it.
worked with states to build resiliency and make our nation's emergency and disaster response capabilities more robust;
So..nothing again. At least, nothing quantifiable, which is pretty much the same thing.
and partnered with the private sector to improve our cybersecurity.
Did...she just list PRISM as an accomplishment on her resume?
Stunning.
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when will the official groping policy be implemented on the campuses?
Except the beverly hillbillies got rich first then moved to Beverly Hills. In this case, UC is currently paying their president $600K and will probably pay her. Which is odd, because last I heard, the UC system was still cutting scholarships, teachers, and classes due to budget problems.
/s. This is idiotic. Why is a taxpayer supported institution wasting money like she's a CEO?
But I'm sure that money is well spent: I mean, if Napolitano can bring the same magic to the UC system that she did to DHS, then maybe the UC system will be safe from imagingary threats from Al Quaeda. And isn't that more important than students getting an education? We decided it was more important than the constitution, so yes, the answer is yes whether you like it or not.
[Citation needed]
'nuff said.
The theory is that you get what you pay for. A $150,000 salary might attract someone who can save $5 mil. A $600,000 salary might attract someone better who can save $10 mil. In the end, taxpayers might be better off with a higher paid person if they can bring in the benefits. Professors at research universities operate on a similar principal... they might get paid $250,000 because they bring in $10 million in grants.
Of course, that's the theory.
We need someone to keep an eye on those hippies over at UC Berkeley.
Have gnu, will travel.
I understand the UC admission process will now include fully body cavity searches.
"Written on the pages is the answer to the never ending story..."
that may be, but Napolitano didn't save any money. She increased costs substantially, caused economic turmoil for the country with the policies she supported, and spent over 200 million bucks on those scanners which have saved us approximately $0. Did I mention the amount of tourism lost because people were like "Fuck this country" over things like claiming we can randomly stop people in 3/4 of the country. You may think it's a TSA thing, but TSA and DHS go hand in hand. Plus DHS harassing the shit out of foreigners, as well.
So does that mean she's working gratis? sadly, no.
Above a certain level, though, you start to pull in the wrong kinds of people. You can definitely get a better professor for $100k than $60k, and probably can get a top one for $200k. But if you're paying an administrator $600k? Now you start pulling in people who don't care about academia, and are just in it for the money. I think it might be better not incentivizing them to jump to academia; academic administration is becoming a revolving door of people from industry and government doing 3-year stints to put on their CV, when it would be better served by people with some kind of actual knowledge about, and commitment to, research and education.
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and a cry went up from the dark corners of campus, "woo-hoo, strip-search the co-eds."
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/s. This is idiotic. Why is a taxpayer supported institution wasting money like she's a CEO?
Why do you get a CEO? Sometimes it's only for the connections. And Janet Napolitano has a lot of connections. The key is this quote:
"will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas."
There are groups in the government that want to take those programs away from UC, and privatize them (or whatever). UC wants to keep them because they bring in a lot of money from the federal government. Janet will help with that because of her connections.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
if Napolitano can bring the same magic to the UC system that she did to DHS, then maybe the UC system will be safe from...
If by "magic" you mean her using her DC connections to get more federal dough into the UC system one way or another, then probably. This reeks of hiring a DC insider to get cash...
Never happen. Sadly, something like that would be the work of the Obama We Voted For, rather than the Obama We Got.
FWIW the police in Berkeley have long had a reputation for being strict and unkind. They are virtually the figurative personification of the man. So she'll fit in that niche.
Plus, being California, the vast majority of people who have the balls and/or means to fight against such authoritarian bullshit are already in prison.
Should make completing the fascist takeover a fairly straightforward manner.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Yeah, but for the scanners we wasted money on, that was revenue and probably a lot of profit for the manufacturers. You do realize that the entire sole purpose of the Federal government, is to subsidize a select few friendly mega-corps at our expense (monetary expense, freedom expense). Napolitano did that job perfectly.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
I think the whole math of paying someone more thant $75k/year to attract top talnet starts to go haywire.
A a point you tend to attract people who either cheat, game the system, or have connections, more than skill.
You're thinking about it all wrong. They're not paying her to work there, they're paying her NOT to work at DHS!
The need to have political mercenaries. Don't have that infrastructure, don't need the protection racket.
And a sizable percentage of UC's supporters would rather see Napolitano in prison than in charge of that institution. Perhaps the regents should have considered what this is going to do to their funding before they chose someone like Napolitano to run their institution.
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Seems to be the going paradigm for those high up in the current administration.
I kinda long for the past days of where it was just the #1 guy getting a hummer outside the Oval office. At least that didn't hurt US citizens' lives.
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Maybe a new university that has colleges that specialize in grant writing? How about doubling the universities so that out of state kids can get a good education. How about the california students that slogged through the requirements to go to a UC school but can't get in, because the schools are full; because there are not enough facilities for them? How about hiring educators to teach the kids so that those kids can step into jobs? The job is a lot of work, I hope she's up to it.
Something that may cause Chancellor Janet to grin, just a little. The difference between the UC system, and that candy ass operation she headed in DC is that in California, the Tea Party is forced to do something it doesn't feel comfortable doing; think.
I'm curious about what scandal was about to break that involved her...?
Seems to be the going paradigm for those high up in the current administration.
I kinda long for the past days of where it was just the #1 guy getting a hummer outside the Oval office. At least that didn't hurt US citizens' lives.
No scandal- she probably just won't go as far as our center-right authoritarian overlord wanted her to.
I anticipate we will be stunned by what her replacement is willing to do, stunned even given recent revelations.
I realized that Napolitano is basically the Margaret Thatcher of the US. Hated, and people will be much happier when she's dead.
I'm curious about what scandal was about to break that involved her...?
Seems to be the going paradigm for those high up in the current administration.
That is my thought exactly, or maybe she is just fed up with managing and defending a corrupt and over-reaching
government department and wants out before she becomes unhireable.
Stepping out of DHS she will lose all the protection that the administration would provide, but that protection
might not mean much when the next shoe drops.
The other possibility is she sees that she will the scapegoat for the Snowden affair anyway so she might as
well get out of the street before she gets thrown under the bus.
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Napolitano: "deploying record resources to protect our nation's borders"
And here is the main clue for us all. "record resources" is just another way for the government to say "Transfered record amounts of middle class tax dollars to a few good friends."
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
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They are one of two varieties: Sexual libertines (what passes for the true left in the United States) or fiscal libertines (what passes for the right in the United States).
You can tell the sexual libertines by their rabid defense of the abortion industry and an absolutist right for everybody to the Holy Orgasm.
You can tell the fiscal libertines by their rabid defense of the financial industry and an absolutist right for the rich to control the Holy Grail of Private Property.
But both are liberals, make no mistake.
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