Napolitano: Terror Threat Highest Since 9/11
Warns Terror Groups Are Becoming 'Innovators'
In testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano insisted that the threat of terrorism against the United States is at its highest levels since 9/11.
She warned that al-Qaeda and other factions are increasingly looking to carry out attacks against the US and are recruiting Westerners to carry out such attacks. She and other administration officials insisted that the threat is increasingly centering around the “innovators” in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
At the same time officials were attempting to tout their “progress” in the endless global war on terror, centering around claims that the parent group in Pakistan is “at one of its weakest points in the past decade.”
Which seems to be of little comfort if 10 years of constant war later the overall threat is getting worse, and the official answer to this problem is more of the same solutions that didn’t work for the past decade.
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skulzfontaine
February 9th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Be afraid, be very afraid…
Blah blah blah. Ten years (okay almost. cause you know, the big 10 year anniversary is still some months away) and America has learned nothing. Well, we've learned that Janet Napolitano is just another run-of-the-mill "national security" shill. Usama bin Ladin is "somewhere out there" lurking. Scary panty-bomber crazies are around just about every corner AND 'terror threat level assessments' are supposed to leave one crapping in one's skivvies. Bulls*@t!
Enough is freaking enough.
oneselbow
February 10th, 2011 at 3:49 am
DHS was caught flat-footed by the Arizona shooting. Next time Big Sister Janet will be ready to frame al-Qaeda for any highly publicized act of violence.
bogi666
February 10th, 2011 at 5:15 am
As Einstein is reported to say have said, a definition of insanity is doing the same failure behavior repeatedly expecting a different result. I said to a shrink once that war is a collective mental and emotional breakdown. He was a WW2 vet and agreed. Anyone whom thinks that this country, USA, isn't in a state of moral, spiritual, physical collapse is a fool or a profiteer. KEEP FEAR ALIVE JANET.
VietnamWarVet
February 10th, 2011 at 6:43 am
It was Hermann Goering who said it way back when: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders – tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger."
Keep the people in a constant state of fear – keep the war machine rolling – continue to destroy liberties at home.
Janet Napolitano is as INCOMPETENT as incompetent gets – sue Arizona for trying to do what the Federal Government is suppose to do – secure and protect our borders – then raise fears in America.
NO potential terrorists nor murdering drug dealers coming across our open borders – you think?
Yes – Krueschev was correct – America is indeed falling like a rotten plum from a tree – being destroyed from within!
RickR30
February 10th, 2011 at 7:19 am
Great stuff. The Global War on Terror is a rousing success!
But wait, we have never been in more danger! Watch out! DHS and the rest of the government zombies need more funds to keep us "safe". We'll have to cut funding to all services in order to guarantee our safety.
That these people have no shame speaking bull and contradicting themselves in the same sentence is no secret, but they seriously believe that the people are going to keep falling for the lies?
theothercanada
February 10th, 2011 at 8:28 am
DHO's Big Sister is right on, 2012 is getting closer and closer, she looking for another gig as the Oppressor in Chief.
bob35983
February 10th, 2011 at 11:34 am
Terrorism threat at the highest level since 9/11? 10 years of war and this is the result? Then obviously someone ain't doin' their job.
Terrance&Philip
February 10th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
It's almost impossible to take seriously threats about terrorism from a woman who as Governor of Arizona left her southern border wide open,
pendulum
February 10th, 2011 at 3:57 pm
she looks like a school teacher, grade one or so. A teacher is a person who went from one of the class to the other.
bogi666
February 11th, 2011 at 3:59 am
Great comments, thanks.The USG/MIC, Mafia Industrial Complex, has perfected Goering strategy and they don't even give Him credit. The KEEP FEAR ALIVE, is SOP for the USG/MIC which foreces contribution, withholding taxes, to fund the Pentagon/DHS protection racket scheme of; fund US, the Pentagon/DHS, for protection or else……….! At least Al Capone with his protection racket gave back to the community as a person could ask him for help and Al would do so.