Napolitano Piling Up the Mistakes

(Jack Kelly — Real Clear Politics)

“Can somebody please tell us how U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job?” asked Canada’s National Post in an editorial April 22. “She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late night radio call-in yahoo.”

The National Post’s question was triggered by an interview Ms. Napolitano gave to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) April 20, in which she claimed some of the 9/11 hijackers entered the U.S. through Canada. (All 19 came directly to the United States.) A few weeks earlier, in a speech to the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Ms. Napolitano said: “One of the things that we need to be sensitive to is the very real feelings among southern border states and in Mexico that if things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border.” […]

Ms. Napolitano was governor of Arizona when President Obama chose her to head DHS. She had no discernable qualifications for the job, and has demonstrated repeatedly she lacks the judgment for such an important and sensitive post. Read more here.