FBI Agent reporting ignored. No one fired or disciplined. How convenient.
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| Trump Shouldn't Hire Kristi Noem, Or Anyone Else, To Run DHS. He Should Abolish It |
| 2024-11-13 |
| [Federalist] News broke Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump picked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security, a key cabinet post for the incoming administration. Conservatives are unhappy about the possibility — and rightly so. Noem is a terrible choice for any post in the Trump administration. Trump won in part because he stood against the transgender agenda and pushed back against gender-confused boys competing in girls’ sports. Noem backed down from protecting girls in her state when the trans lobby came calling, then lied about it, then whined about conservative "cancel culture" when she was called out. She’s a coward and liar, and should be the last in line for a big cabinet post. Noem was also one of the first governors in 2020 to accept Somali and other refugees without proper vetting, hardly a choice that recommends her to head up DHS. And, for what it’s worth, she awkwardly lied about having met North Korean dictator King Jong Un and about canceling a scheduled meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. All that said, the debate over whether Noem or someone else should run DHS is missing the forest for the trees. No one should run DHS because the entire department should be abolished. Trump rightly pledged to abolish the Department of Education in part because it’s been a failure. Well, not only has the Department of Homeland Security been a failure, it’s been worse than a failure. DHS was created after 9/11 for the explicit purpose of making Americans safe from foreign terrorist attacks, but it has turned out to be an instrument of domestic tyranny, a giant panopticon of surveillance trained on American citizens that serves no purpose except to censor, spy, and propagandize the very people it was meant to protect. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Maybe she's supposed to shoot their puppies. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-11-13 16:16 |
| #7 DHS, ODNI, and the Entire State Fusion Center programs were all purported solutions to the "Chinese Wall" Jaime Gorelick highlighted in post 9/11 testimony. As a founding State Homeland Security Intel official, the whole context of our efforts was to at last integrate the granularity and breadth of local/state LE criminal intelligence files nationwide with the deep, worldwide awareness of the IC/DOD and its OCONUS database matched with the domestic, federal FBI/DEA/DOJ/IRS systems. In theory, search linkages and third and fourth order link analysis would give far improved pattern analysis, predictive surveillance and targeting and nexus locations. The goal was a truly universal, single-step system interrogative that touched that entire assemblage. Rice-bowl, compatibility, procedural/legal limitations, and turf issues made much of the dream a bridge-too-far from the get go. Unwinding the pieces will be a challenge as they have fused with older, far deeper institutions I suspect. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-11-13 14:51 |
| #6 FBI Agent reporting ignored. No one fired or disciplined. How convenient. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-11-13 13:51 |
| #5 Lest we forget, before 9-11, the CIA, FBI, DIA, and NSA were for the most part compartmentalized, sitting on their own 'goose eggs' of coveted info! That's why the Islamic perpetrators of the hijacks were missed along with the flight trainings they achieved and the tip off snubs by the 3 female FBI field agents of their movements! |
| Posted by: Shuper Clairt5942 2024-11-13 13:13 |
| #4 DHS is a 10 year old FIAT. It sounded like a good purchase after 9-11. It has not solved any of the previous problems and has caused new ones. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-11-13 12:20 |
| #3 Gov. Noem controls an invasion of 1 million bikers every August. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-13 10:39 |
| #2 IIRC DHS was implemented after Jamie Gorelick (D-POS) installed a firewall between the FBI and CIA under the Clinton admin, leading to 9/11. Clearly, the FBI and CIA are domestically/politically buddy-buddy and all-too-willing to crush Americans rather than do their assigned jobs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-11-13 10:27 |
| #1 Someone needs to run it during the abolishment phase. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2024-11-13 10:04 |