Homeland Security: With Talent Like This…
Uh-oh.
From the Homeland Security system that “worked,” we now have word that Secretary Janet Napolitano is mobilizing a broad response to the underwear bomber. As part of this security “review,” Napolitano is dispatching her deputy, Jane Holl Lute, “on a broad international outreach effort” to review security procedures with “leaders from major international airports in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.”
Who is Jane Holl Lute? Or, more precisely, what kind of hands-on experience is presumed to qualify Lute for the serious responsibility of serving as the #2 official at Homeland Security?
Why, the United Nations, of course. Before joining the Obama Department of Homeland Security, Lute worked for six years as an assistant-secretary-general in the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations. During that stretch, UN peacekeeping expanded at speed, and so did the related procurement corruption and peacekeeper sex scandals.
Here’s a Washington Post article from 2007, “U.N. Finds Fraud, Mismanagement in Peacekeeping,” which details some of the peacekeeping corruption uncovered by a special UN task force (which the UN has since dissolved). The task force reported findings of “multiple instances of fraud, corruption, waste and mismanagement at U.N. headquarters and peacekeeping missions.” These included 10 “significant instances of fraud and corruption with an aggregate value of $610 million.”
On the sex-scandal front, Jane Holl Lute was one of the senior UN officials who promised “zero tolerance” of UN peacekeepers sexually exploiting people (in some cases, children) they were sent to protect. Here’s a post from 2008, with a link to her zero-tolerance promise in 2007 — as well as to details that surfaced the following year about allegations of continuing sexual exploitation, gang rape and whatnot by UN peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire, Haiti and Sudan.
None of this is to accuse Lute herself of corruption, or of indifference to the rape of minors. The problem, rather, concerns the questions all this raises about her management skills. She held a senior slot in which she repeatedly either made excuses or promised to clean things up; but the fraud and sex scandals rolled on.
Lute had a long career before that, of course. Immediately prior to joining the UN, she worked as chief operating officer of Ted Turner’s UN Foundation; before that she served on the National Security Council, and in the U.S. Army. But the big fat credential here, the stand-out item you’ll find in her Homeland Security bio, is her experience in UN peacekeeping.
“The problem, rather, concerns the questions all this raises about her management skills. She held a senior slot in which she repeatedly either made excuses or promised to clean things up; but the fraud and sex scandals rolled on.”
Change the “her” and “she” to “his” and “he” and you could be speaking about Obama or anyone else in this administration, both before and after inauguration day.
Therefore it’s no surprise Janet is sending this piece of fluff abroad. Such fluff is the stuff of which all our warm & fuzzy “hope” and “change” is made.
If Napolitano and Holl-Lute are the best we have to offer for this critical mission, our security as a country is imperiled.
Napolitano should have been replaced after the “system worked” faux pas.
Why am I not surprised?
I’ll bet they don’t go to the one place where they might get some good advice: Israel. You see, Israeli security relies on using intelligent people to screen people as they drive to and move in their airports. Our approach seems to be: “Well, the people we hire will be idiots, so we’ll try this and that piece of technology and hope it works.” And, yes, we’ll ask lots of idiots around the world what they think as well.
Napolitano is low in ethics and intelligence.
She needs to appoint people that are the same to fit in.
Janet is a bad person and dishonest. She is a poster child for the liberal values.
Is the corruption, bribery, & scandal at the UN surprising? I’ll be surprised when I hear that doesn’t occur at the UN. I am sick and tired of our tax dollars going to a so-called organization that is anti-American, corrupt, and pretty much worthless. The cretins in charge of the UN are constantly running the U.S. down, stealing, feathering their own nests, and darn near encouraging anti-U.S. behavior. UNICEF might be the one UN program worth keeping, and I’m not even sure about it. I say the U.S. should bail out of the UN, whatever the consequences.
Janet “Heck-if-I-Know and Jane “In-dispute” running the security show.
I feel real safe.
“Ms. Lute consistently diverted blame to other U.N. officials or departments”
This alone makes her eminently qualified to fit right into the current administration, at DHS or anywhere.
As the saying goes, “Sh!t rolls downhill.”
This is just the latest example of an unserious action taken by an unserious buffoon who was appointed by an unserious ideologue elected by an unserious nation filled with unserious people.
Why doesn’t Obama just appoint the Girl Scouts to run homeland security; for one thing at least they would be honest and have a sense of honor.
#6..yes!! Israel.
But, if we asked them, it might work and the Muslims would be unhappy with us…
Napolitano should be looking for another job,
not appointing others
We need a junk yard dog in this position. But, again, Obama will not appoint someone with moxy.
He put an unqualified person in a position that could get many killed. He did this on purpose. He knew who Janet is/was..
As long as Obama and his cronies are in power, we are in danger. This man knows no humiliation..he was blaming Bush for the attack. He’s been in control almost a year and still blames others..
Yeah, with talent like this…
It is not possible to accidentally be as incompetent as this administration is.
Its not the waste or fraud in UN peacekeeping operations that concerns me. I expect large amounts of waste and fraud in any govermental/UN operation. I’m certain there was frightful waste and tremendous fraud in US military procurement during WW2, but we WON the war.
What concerns me the most about UN Peacekeepers is the total lack of any sucessful operations against in the places that matter to us most…Hamas was able to arm itself for years with large, (truck transported!) Syrian/Iranian missiles that went right past the “peacekeepers” patrolling southern Lebannon. Peacekeepers who’s presence and explicit purpose was to PREVENT such arms transports, as per the deal to end the ’83 war with Israel…They’ll stop kicking terrorists A**es, if you (the UN) enforce an arms embargo.
Well, we all saw how well THAT worked a couple years back, right? No shortage of Hamas missles in that splendid little war, was there? It only ended with yet another UN agreement to oversee prevention of weapons shipments in exchange for Israeli restraint. Same story with Hamas in Gaza. Everyone knows the’ll agree to anything to stop the (righteous) kicking of their terroristic butts in exchange for the hollow promises of “peacekeepers” to “monitor” things. But we all know when the UN AND the terrorists have no intention of stopping anything.
Remember,UN peacekeeping “boots on the ground” are Either :
A) from 3rd world countries that sympathisze with the terrorists, or:
B) From the so-called “armed forces” of Europe, which, unfortunately, consist of little more than Generals and/or and Marching Bands.
I would tolerate the waste and fraud among the “peacekeepers”, if they actually acomplished a real mission, but they never have.
Does Ms Lute resemble Ms Napolitano? There can’t be two of them , can there?
Her credentials? Since when does that matter? She showed up for “work” every day, what else is there.
From the article, ” this means she was responsible for corruption and the waste”. It looks like she will fit in just fine. One more fool in a circus of posturing fools.
She looks like she should be passing out cookies at the PTA.
I see bodies, charred bodies in airliner wreckage,bullet riddled bodies in shopping malls. bodies in subway trains. Its coming.
ehunter, I see the same thing, because in the middle east an appearance of weakness invites attack, exactly what Obama specializes in.
6. virgil xenophon:
I agree 100%. In fact why is anybody surprised?
#16,gverdi27, I’ve been thinking the same thing a lot lately.
Working for the UN should immediately disqualify anyone from positions that require competence. The risk of corrupto-incompetence disease is too great; better to treat them like lepers.
Ladies and Gentlemen: I didn’t think it was possible to find another candidate who is just as if not more incompetent then “Janet from another Planet”, but in Jane Holl Lute I think we have a winnah!!!
#25 This is only the beginning of incompetence, we’ve got three more years of this nincompoopishness.
One thing for everyone to keep in mind is that the imposter and chief will not have anyone in his administration that is perceived to be smarter than he is. This is a guy that has had everything just handed to him. So the bar is set very low. How low can we go? We’re going to find out. Someone will always be that scape goat.
Before it’s over Obama is going to own it all.
If the “system worked” why do we need a task force?
The abnormal is being normalized that’s all. If it can’t be fixed turn it into part of life’s rich tapestry.
Now I wonder if anybody else has been thinking about the Air France Jetliner that went down off the South American coast a few months ago.
This is a living example of what the upper strata ruling class looks like. This is the real “enemy” that everybody fears but cannot describe. Notice once in an influential position, she jumps from public to private to public, but never leaves the upper class ruling strata. As she is in her positions she accomplishes nothing that would save or improve lives of those she is in charge of, but she does manage to keep the bureaucracy secure. She’ll do her “job” in this case, which means nothing will be done, no other bureaucrat will be dismissed, and nothing to shake up the thin layer (or maybe not so thin) of ruling elites and bureaucrats that are seeking to control more and more of your life.
This is the growing European statist model of government. Notice she went from the U.N. to Ted Turner to Obama in a seamless transition. That should not happen…unless all three are running along the same lines.
Worse it occurs no matter what party is in charge. There are professional bureaucrats easily willing to run your lives on both sides. On the left it is almost one hundred percent. On the right there are a few left who are decent public servants who struggle with the power and sometimes try to give it back to us. To their horror though, they find many of the citizens are content to let the elites keep that power. Imagine the frustration. People like Mike Pence and Michelle Bachmann who are screaming at the top of their lungs warnings that fall mostly on deaf ears. For example, after months of public review about how catastrophe government healthcare would be to your health, your jobs, your chances of advancement, not to mention the crushing pressure on the nation itself, you have almost forty percent going “Heck, sounds good to me, it’s one less thing I have to pay for and I won’t have to be responsible.” I suspect Pence and the others have bruises on their foreheads from the repeated self inflicted head slaps.
Putting someone who worked for the UN in charge of Homeland Security is like putting Al Capone in charge of the FBI.
And she is married to LTGEN Doug Lute, the “war czar”. The pair are completely incompetent.
Obama had to relax the vetting procedures just to find enough of his friends to even fill the appointed positions he had to fill. He can’t even qualify most of his people, so he just hires them as “Czars”. We have a crappy president and he has the crappiest staff ever assembled in the executive branch. Check that, crappiest ever in the last 40 years.
Merely going from one incompetent, corrupt organization to another. Unfortuntely, this one’s closer to home.
I thought this positioning of Lute was planned before all this. Yes, she and her husband are incompetent!
Now we have two dust bunnies guarding our interests.
the people that Obama has appointed in his adm., are all imcompetent, all have baggage, legal or otherwise. Any, ANY other adm would have been raked over the coals and been the butt of every comedian and Sunday show on earth!!, for the backgrounds and incompetence of such appointees.
Been to UN peace-kept places. The size of the can of powdered milk you gets depends on the specific sex favor.
Question: is this another one of Obama’s trangendered appointments?
Only a fool puts a woman in charge of security. Women see things in terms of compromise and getting along and “supporting each other”.
Goind balls-out after bad guys and demanding competence of your co-workers is a male trait that few women share. Of those women who share it, for certain they don’t stomache working for Ted Turner, the UN or Janet “The Helmet”.
Homeland Security is aware of a terrorist before he gets on a plane, yet he is permitted to board. The army is aware of a terrorist major in their ranks, and does nothing. It is true the government does not run like a Swiss watch, but anyone who believes the system failed because of some administrative mistakes is a bit clueless. Time will tell, but I am convinced there is a well thought out plan unfolding before our eyes. Obama has purposely surrounded himself with unremarkable leftists (like Napolitano) who may not inspire confidence amongst the commoners, but they do know how to take orders. And Obama, clearly not a leader but a follower, gets orders from his bosses before he spouts forth his lie of the moment. The teleprompter feeds us exactly the words needed to string us along. Time grows short.
She should fit rightin with the rest of those that OBAMA surrounds hinself with. child molestor, tax cheats, socialist, markist, racist, the list could go on @ on. No relief for the people from this gutter trash. WAKE UP AMERICA vote vote vote them all out.