Posted on 04/01/2013 1:16:35 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
We've already detailed the cognitive dissonance created by DHS head Janet Napolitano's statements on email usage. Last September, she blithely pointed out that she doesn't use email "at all," and in fact, "avoids many online services." She went on to say that some would call her a "Luddite" and seemed to present the incongruous situation as comical. Hilarity ensued. Powerful government official says, "What, me internet?" LOLS at 11.
So, we all had a good, if disbelieving laugh at her our own expense (we're still paying her salary), and Janet Napolitano went back to not checking the email account she doesn't have and not internetting with any regularity -- the sort of thing that might be considering endearing if it weren't for the fact that so many politicians openly brag about their lack of computer skills, while simultaneously crafting, amending, voting on a variety of computer-related laws.
Napolitano broached the email subject again recently at a breakfast organized by the Christian Science Monitor. She restated her view on email as a non-essential annoyance, rather than, say, an extremely useful communication tool.
Ms. Napolitano said she cut the email cord while governor of Arizona “because I was just getting — you know, you get hundreds and hundreds of things all the time.”I can understand feeling overwhelmed by incoming email, but many other people have to deal with the overflowing inboxes and, while they may not like the tedium of dealing with the incoming traffic, they also realize it's an important part of their job and a byproduct of changes in the way people communicate. I'm also fairly sure Napolitano has a staff at her disposal and the power to delegate much of email busywork to others.
In her current job, “which has a hundred thousand different things that happen on any given day, [not using email] allows me to focus on where I need to focus,” she added.
“I also don’t like the process where people could send you an email, then say, see, you were told, or you know this. And then it comes back two years later to say, hey, you got this email — among the thousands you get every day.Oh, I see. Napolitano doesn't want to be accountable. That's
“I want to be a little more selective on how that goes,” she concluded.
It was already irritating when she was just doing her "I'm a Luddite LOL" schtick. By openly admitting she's not thrilled that stored electronic communication can be used to hold her responsible for statements or actions, she's crossed the line from obtuse into contemptuous. Our leaders are supposed to be accountable for their actions, and yet many of them do everything they possibly can to avoid it. The DC motto has become "With great power comes selective responsibility," and Napolitano's statement is sadly, unsurprising.
She doesn't like ANYTHING, Male.
She doesn’t use email because it is a record of the illegal things she does. I once knew a lady that NEVER answered her email, NEVER left a voice mail, NEVER responded to anything in written or recorded form. Nor would she speak to you with anyone present who could testify about what she said.
She was a security person and it turned out she was doing a whole bunch of things against regulations with respect to her job. It was difficult to catch her.
She really is full of it. This is purely an accountability thing.
In business, after an important business meeting or conversation, it is customary to send an email to someone saying, this is to confirm that you’ll have x to me by y. Is that correct?
The whole point is accountability. With some people, it is the only way you get them to respond to anything.
Man, she is really sleazy. I wonder if she allows her underlings to go email-less.
Never wright down what you can say.
Never say what you can whisper.
Never whisper what you can nod.
Never nod what you can wink.
Never wink what you can smile.
I guess we need to add email in there somewhere.
Never write if you can speak
Never speak if you can nod
Never nod if you can wink.
Lomasney- DEMOCRAT
Big Sis has turned the DHS into a hot bed of homosexual/lesbian activity.
Hillary Clinton completed a world tour with Madonna preaching the homosexual religion and Leon Puñettas has had gay pride celebrations at the Pentagon.
Sodom Hussein Obama wants to turn the Boy Scouts into a dating club for NAMBLA.
This is the most evil corrupt regime in history.
Time to light the torches, grab our pitchforks and head for the White Hut to dethrone the Frankenstein monster!
She was a security person and it turned out she was doing a whole bunch of things against regulations with respect to her job. It was difficult to catch her.
It does seem to be a characteristic of security people, doesn’t it. They learn the system so they can protect it, then they know the shortcomings too and they use those too against it.
If I had a manager that refused to use e-mail, they would be terminated.
This administration is an absolute shell with zero accountability via no electronic trail.
Napolitano can verbally give orders to buy billions of rounds of ammunition and then deny she had anything to do with the decision.
When someone is that secretive, you have a problem.
No surprise that Napolitano doesn’t like email because it holds you accountable. While she was governor, a number of senior managers didn’t want to be accountable and mandated automatic erasing of emails over 2 weeks old for that very reason. (Yes, it was stated in the *email* they sent.) It made documenting projects a nightmare; everything had to be printed and filed.
If I remember correctly, wasn't that said by the "Kingfish" himself, Huey Long of Louisiana?
If I remember correctly, wasn't that said by the "Kingfish" himself, Huey Long of Louisiana?
Actually, I believe it was. :-)
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