What else can be said of the person who heads the Department of Homeland Security, the agency tasked with keeping America safe from further attacks of terrorism, when it’s obvious that she doesn’t have a clue.

In a story you can read here on Newsmax, she re-affirms the administration’s desire to carry through with closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, even though the deadline proposed by President Obama has passed.

So, her focus is on the closure of Club Gitmo.

How does she treat some other aspects of her position?

Christmas Day underwear bomber?
Well, according to Napolitano, “the system worked.”

Uh, Janet, a civilian passenger on the flight tackling the attempted bomber is not part of the system.
Of course, the flight did originate from overseas, so perhaps she thought she would get a free pass because it wasn’t a domestic flight.

This is the same woman who the only thing domestic that she worries about is her claim that returning war veterans are “potential domestic terrorists.”

We just had a visit from a friend of my daughter’s who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.
This person is as likely to be a terrorism threat as I am to becoming a brain surgeon.

As are any of the members of the military I have known, including the many Iraq and Afghanistan vets I have met during the course of that very same daughter joining the Marine Corps.
She leaves for boot camp in May, and no matter where she is deployed, when she returns home I know that the last thing on earth I or anyone else will have to worry about is her being a threat to national security.

I’d feel a bit safer if Ms. Napolitano would follow the advice I offered her in this article from back in October and concentrate on dealing with the Jihadist traing camps that are right here on American soil.

Or if the DHS would take the time to monitor the activities of groups such as Hizb-Ut-Tahrir, a group many terrorism experts consider to be a bigger threat than al-Qaeda, as we reported here, back in July.

However, these matters don’t seem to be very high on Ms. Napolitano’s priority list.

Closing Club Gitmo, now that’s a job that needs to get done, because her boss made a promise.

Hey Janet, Obama hasn’t kept most of his promises, why worry about one that will wind up transferring terrorism suspects onto U.S. soil?

Napolitano is supposed to keep us safe?

God help us all.

Ms Napolitano, in whatever passes for thinking in the world she lives in, feel that vets are prime targets to be recruited by “right-wing extremist” groups.

I know of someone who fits her criteria exactly.

Small town farm boy who enlists in the military at an early ages, goes off to war, and then returns to America with no job and no discernable skills.

So today, on a day when we pay tribute to the brave nen and women who have fought and died in order to allow Ms Napolitano to make such irrational statements, we thought that we should clear something up for her:

Rather than being a threat to America’s security, those veterans are the only thing that has kept America secure.

Those veterans, such as the man featured in this video, are the only reason you could say something that stupid.

(Oh, and for all of you liberals, as well as those of you who know nothing of American history (or is that the same thing?), the man profiled in the video below was not the fantasy of some Hollywood fathead, this closing clip is from the exploits of an actual patriotic American who became the most-decorated soldier of World War Two.)

And we aren’t done yet.

And neither are our readers.

We just received a comment regarding an article we did about the Oathkeepers:

“I am a veteran. I served 22 years in the US Army, the 1st Ranger Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, and finally 17 years in 5th Special Forces Group (A)! I am disgusted with the latest administration. It hurts me to know that people that I put my life on the line to defend put this knucklehead in charge. CHANGE!!!  I support the Oath Keepers decision. I must say that anyone that comes to my home to get my guns had better bring help. Lots of help. I wont have my Constitutional rights violated or disregarded. I heard that the illegal president wanted to put soldiers with my background on a terrorist watch list or some such. Have you heard anything about this? Keep up the good work. It takes us all to make a great nation!”

Sir, let us first say that it is an honor to hear from someone such as yourself who as devoted so many years to serving his country.

However, we are sorry to say that what you had heard regarding Janet Napolitano and veterans is true.

Watch the video:

And it generated comments from two sides of the fence, both whom claim to have experience in undercover intellegence operations.
You can read the original article and the comments here.

Of course, we have no means to verify or disprove undercover ops experience of the commenters.

One individual, going under the pseudonym Cherokee Parks, clearly understood the satirical nature of our implying that Janet Napolitano was getting her information from us.
And the point we were trying to make.
The other didn’t.

Regardless, the other person went on about how we have no idea of what is being done in order to keep America safe.
And stated that our “exaggerated journalism”  “reflects poorly on all of us.”
This individual also took the position that these jihadist training camps on American soil are common knowledge.

Let’s tackle that last one first.

After we closed up shop, Salvaterra and I went to one of our favorite spots to get a pizza and a few beers.
We are fairly well-know at this place, and we publicly asked the people there if they had ever heard of terrorist training camps here in America.
Out of roughly 40 people who were in the place, not one of them had ever heard of such a thing.

So much for exaggerated journalism.

Now, as to this person’s other position that everything that can be done is being done, we have one word:

Bull*hit!

Neither of us have any experience in intellegence gathering operations.
What we do have is common sense.

Which leads us to ask, what possible benefit is there to be gained by allowing these camps to exist?

Even if there is a CIA or FBI agent working undercover in one of these terrorist training grounds, what information is this agent likely to learn?

If the head jihadist receives word that another 9-11 style attack is forthcoming, will that person really be stupid enough to share that information with everyone in the camp?
Net gain.
Nothing.

Perhaps this person would learn of an additional training camp opening at another location.

Seeing as how the DHS doesn’t see fit to do anything as to the camps it does know about, what good does this information do?

We need someone to explain to us how in the world allowing these camps to operate right here in America is an effective strategy in keeping us safe.

Because it is our opinion that a group of terrorists who are already in this country, and could decide at any moment to leave the camp in order to kill civilians or to destroy an American city are a threat that needs to be dealt with in no uncertain terms.
James Bond tactics be damned.

And we can’t place all of the blame on Napolitano’s shoulders.

Former DHS directors Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff are just as guilty for allowing this.

What is different now is, what do you think would would happen if say, members of a gun club or a veterans organization were to open up a similar style training camp?

Janet “you’re all potential domestic terrorists” Napolitano would call out a SWAT team and swarm the place faster than you could blink.

Of course, offending America’s veterans and offending a group of Muslim terrorists are two different things.

Again, we have no background in intellegence operations.

Therefore, we need someone to explain to us how allowing these camps to exist outweighs the dire risk that they pose.

A risk that could become a reality at any time.

Let’s face it, in spite of her penchant for making outlandish statements about America’s military, she didn’t get to where she is by being totally dim-witted.

Today is Memorial Day, a day to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep America the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Even for those who consider military vets to be potential terrorists.

Yes, even for people like Ms. Napolitano and her cronies at the Department of Homeland Security.

So if she has any common sense at all, she will not show her face in public today.

Because I feel safe in saying that there is not one veteran, not one person who came out to watch a Memorial Day parade, nor anyone who is visiting the gravesite of a loved who gave their life in service to our country, who wants to see her face in public today.

I only wish there was a way for her to see the video below, maybe then she might begin to understand that it is only through the actions individuals like this that make it possible for her to voice the viewpoints that she does, as twisted as they may be.

Ms. Napolatino, our country is going through some really hard times right now, and there are many who wonder if the United States will survive.

Allow me to assure you, and the rest of the citizens of this great land, that we will get through this.

In spite of people like yourself.

And that is to pass a law permitting burning the American flag as a sign of protest.

However, this law would have some slight provisions.

A protester would have to perform this act in front of one of three locations:
An American Legion post.
An Armed Services recruitment center.
A Disabled American Veterans post.

And before being allowed to burn the flag, the person wishing to do so would have to go inside one of the aforementioned buildings and make the following announcement:

“I am about to go outside and set fire to the American flag. As I do not like or respect America or what this country and the flag stands for, I feel it is my right to do this as a form of protest.”

And if the people who just heard that statement care to respond with their own form of protest, so be it.