Posted on 04/23/2009 4:49:42 PM PDT by markomalley
The head of the Homeland Security agency responsible for a controversial report that suggested veterans were being recruited to commit terrorist acts in the U.S. is being replaced by a former FBI and CIA official.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced in a statement late Thursday afternoon that the White House intends to nominate Phillip Mudd as undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis. Mr. Mudd is a 24-year career FBI official, who currently serves as the associate executive assistant director of the Bureau's national security branch.
He replaces Roger Mackin, who was appointed to the post in September by then-Secretary Michael Chertoff.
Ms. Napolitano also says she will appoint Bart R. Johnson as the principal deputy undersecretary. Mr. Johnson currently serves as director of homeland security and law enforcement in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“associate executive assistant director”
Layers and layers and layers of bureaucracy...
What a bunch of buffoons...
Where the hell do they find these IDIOTS!
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — Last February, top F.B.I. officers from across the nation gathered in a high-security auditorium for the latest plan to reinvent the crime-fighting agency to take on terrorism.
Philip Mudd, who had just joined the bureau from the rival Central Intelligence Agency, was pitching a program called Domain Management, designed to get agents to move beyond chasing criminal cases and start gathering intelligence.
Drawing on things like commercial marketing software and the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping without warrants, the program is supposed to identify threats. Mr. Mudd displayed a map of the San Francisco area, pocked with data showing where Iranian immigrants were clustered — and where, he said, an F.B.I. squad was “hunting.”
Some F.B.I. officials found Mr. Mudd’s concept vague and the implied ethnic targeting troubling. How were they supposed to go “hunting” without colliding with the Constitution? Would the C.I.A. man, whom some mocked privately as Rasputin, take the bureau back to the domestic spying scandals of the 1960’s? And why neglect promising cases to, in Mr. Mudd’s words, “search for the unknown”?
If he doesn't change his tune, methinks his career will be similarly short (start profiling muzzies...in this administration??)
Of course, the same skill sets could be used to track down "right wing extremists" too...
Who drafted the report?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228863/posts
Homeland Security Warning on “Rightwing” authored by Brian Marcus - DHS Analyst
Nope. They just covered their butts from pissing off veterans. Conservatives are still on the hit list. If you speak your mind, you might get a visit.
In the left playbook, dissent is equal to subversion... sadly.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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... or at least give a bump to the fundraiser thread.
“Well, looks like they found their scapegoat...”
Precisely what I told my wife as I read the article aloud for her to know what I was ranting about.
One point I would like to bring up though that nobody seems to hit on is the fact that the DHS, as well as every, and I mean EVERY other department of our Government, EVERY Bureau right down to the janitors is stuffed with Leftist Bureaucrats, so it really doesn’t matter whose name is on the cover of the pamphlet, or the file, or whatever they produce as it’s going to be a composition of many and various Lefties no matter what.
NAPPY really is a Ditzbrain and a Sour Fruitcake! Those are two character Traits that Stink for Anything! but especially for One in Charge of Homeland Security! ZERO HUSSEIN has made a choice that may DESTROY His Administration in One Giant Swoop!
My House Representative John Carter called for her resignation, and commented that, by her standards, 80% of his constituents would be “right wing extremists.”
Cover up? Who the hell is Mackin and what are his associations and qualifications?
Time to put him before a congressional committee under oath. Oh, I forgot, Comrade Conyers runs the House Judiciary Committee and the Fool on the Hill Leahy and Ted the Whale Kennedy and John the traitor Rockefeller run the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees.
When Rev. Wright said “The chickens have come home to roost” he actually meant that the Foxes were guarding the henhouse, or in Kennedy’s case, the whorehouse.
America is in deep trouble and it is beginning to read like Kafka’s “No Exit”.
Not good enough. What would be good enough: Napolitano fires the whole team responsible for the report, then resigns.
If you google Brian Marcus, you get some guy who was in the "Internet Monitoring" office of the ADL back in 2005.
Which may sound more ominous than it actually is: about 10 years ago the ADL called me to alert me that threatening anti-semitic remarks had been posted on the internet against my son, including the invitation,"...you can find this Jew and kill him at ________[our home address]________."
It was just some stupid kid, with whom I had a chat and also his mom.
ADL sometimes does good work but Abe Foxman, head of ADL, can be very bigoted against conservative Christians. If you read his stuff, you can see he has a very narrow approach and doesn't get out much to talk with people who might disagree with him.
Foxman is very much locked into 19th Century stereotypes and sees Christians and particularly Catholics and Evangelicals as the primary "threat" against Jews, when in fact, whatever the past history, today are pretty much the only serious friends the Jews have.
Foxman is losing it and has been for years. Once did good work but abdicated watching the Left to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a hardcore leftist group.
No threat from the Left!
I used to work in cooperation with ADL on internal security matters and the men in charge were great. Today they are mediocre to useless.
The memo might have been someone trying to keep their job in the “new order”
"...Michael Chertoff named longtime Central Intelligence Agency veteran Roger Mackin to the post."What did he do in the "private" sector from 2004-2008? Well, could it be that he was one of the many "beltway bandits" who cashed in on their government jobs, after they retired, with high paying jobs in companies living off government contracts?"Mackin, who spent nearly 30 years at the CIA as a counterintelligence officer... has spent the last four years in the private sector."
"Alexandria, VA (January 30, 2006) Roger Mackin, CEO of CRA, a preeminent national provider of homeland security planning, training, exercises and intelligence consulting services, is pleased to announce that CRA has been selected by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be one of the contract awardees for the important National Exercise Program (NEP)."And then back into the revolving door for another hitch in government to set policy they and their future employer could then profit from upon returning to the "private" sector?
Now, if he is actually the one responsible for the DHS report in question, does he return to the "private" sector to train government employees (federal, state & local) in the anti-conservative, terrorist-profiling "security" policy that DHS report was disseminating?
Will federal contracts be distributed to implement that policy? Seems to me Conservative on Capitol Hill better speak to Mackin and get to the bottom of this.
Ricky the Termite.
When I read that Mudd was the “associate executive assistant director” of something or other (perhaps of the Office of the Assistant Associate Director for bumkissing) The Republic of Ruritania flashed through my mind. If we are not a third world republic, we soon will be.
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