Posted on 8/27/2013, 4:28:45 PM by Sub-Driver
Outgoing DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano Warns of ‘Serious’ Cyber Attack, Unprecedented Natural Disaster
By Mike Levine @mlevinereports Follow on Twitter Aug 27, 2013 10:39am
Outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano delivers farewell remarks today at the National Press Club in Washington reflecting on four-plus years as a member of President Obama's cabinet. Credit: Mike Levine/ABC News
The outgoing Homeland Security Secretary has a warning for her successor: A massive and “serious” cyber attack on the U.S. homeland is coming, and a natural disaster — the likes of which the nation has never seen — is also likely on its way.
So prepare, and bring “a large bottle of Advil,” Janet Napolitano told her yet-to-be-named replacement in a farewell address Tuesday morning.
“Many things still need tending, and my successor will most certainly have a full plate on his or her hands,” said Napolitano, who leaves her post next week after more than four years at the helm of the Department of Homeland Security.
Napolitano said she faced “many challenges” during her tenure at DHS, from the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
DHS — backed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard and other federal departments and agencies — led the federal government’s response to such disasters.
During Napolitano’s tenure, her department managed 325 federally declared disasters, and issued more than 60 emergency declarations, she said at the National Press Club in Washington this morning.
Leading a department created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks meant Napolitano has also been at the forefront of the nation’s counterterrorism and border enforcement efforts.
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Does she have a crystal ball?
Waves of climatic mildness are threatening the budgets and power of NOAA and climate scientists around the world. It's a disaster.
Not to be conspiracy-minded, but how would she know about some impending “natural” disaster? Is there some looming comet they haven’t told us about?
Big Sis Janet is the administration’s cosmic seer.
She might meet her match at UC when she starts dictating to Berkley students.
No but she is privy to satan’s plans.
She is predicting a natural disaster? That’s pretty fascinating, coming from a member of the “pro-science” party. Liberals are idiots.
“.....and a natural disaster — the likes of which the nation has never seen — is also likely on its way.”
This is like saying the sun will come up tomorrow. Each year we have natural disasters, what makes her think one is coming that dwarfs all others? How could she possibly know? It’s like saying something bad will eventually happen to us.
My gawd, perhaps even a world class bimbo such as Janet dorkess can be occasionally correct.
Of course, so is a stopped clock.
The ability of the Obamadork to find the most extreme talentless pieces of excrement - in the large pool of liberal excrement-beings - is truly amazing.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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like when we were told “This President will be tested...”
Idiot babbling...
...prepping the way for a couple future false flags. How nice of the lesbo amazon battalion leader.
Does Obamacare count as an unprecedented, unnatural natural disaster?
Nostrusitano?
(link to the Free Republic thread)
Clams gots legs?
It's the junk science meme this administration is busily planting: that severe storms are related to human C02 production and AGW.
Friday afternoon, and I was scanning the radio dial as I passed the towns and cities. The global banking crisis was in the news; the most serious problems were in Europe. Bank runs of some sort. Lucky for Europe, they ran out the clock at the close of business going into the weekend. But by then the financial contagion had spread to New York, and the stock market closed early after some kind of Wall Street emergency fuses had been blown.
Breathy voices warned of another round of dire world economic consequences, by then a familiar tune. Later news updates reported unspecified problems with the American credit card system. Computer networks were having technical problems. Some cell phone service was down. Spillover from Europe, no doubt. Other problems related to the internet, possibly coinciding with a period of high solar flare activity that affected communications satellites. Plain bad luck and Murphy’s Law were frequently cited. There was even some talk of a possible cyber attack, but of course it was pure speculation. China, Russia, Iran: the usual suspects.
Whatever the cause, the main sticking point seemed to be problems in the international currency markets. The day’s interbank trades could not be resolved; there was too much volatility in the Eurozone as some countries hinted at plans to pull out of the euro. Financial experts assured their radio audiences that it would all be straightened out by Monday. “Thank God it’s Friday” was a commonly expressed cliché laughed into radio microphones.
And that was my working knowledge of the unfolding events.
By the time I decided to top off my tank in the northeastern corner of Tennessee, every gas station was taking cash only, with long lines of cars forming.
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