DHS chief Johnson vows to ‘transform and reform’ Secret Service, ask ‘hard questions’
(But not answer them)Yesterday, I watched Fox News' Bret Baier interviewing DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. Baier asked Johnson a host of questions about several topics and got hardly any straight answers.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/04/dhs-chief-johnson-promises-to-transform-and-reform-secret-service/?intcmp=latestnews
Johnson gave no straight answer when asked why we don't stop travel to the US from Ebola-infected nations.
He gave no straight answer when asked if he had requested the resignation of Secret Service director Julia Pierson.
Likewise when asked about the four Middle Easterners arrested crossing the US-Mexican border. He didn't even know if they were still in custody and had to check up on that question during a break.
Likewise when asked if we had truly decimated al Qaeda and whether the Khorasan Group was really al Qaeda.
In fact the only somewhat straight answers he gave were that the Secret Service should remain under DHS and not go back to Treasury and whether he had sought advice from his predecessor, Janet Napolitano (he had).
And what advice had Napolitano given him?
Don't answer hard questions.
1 comment:
Yes, the language people give in public about such things is always vapid. One wonders why they bother.
The truth is, this is a tangled mess and it would take me hours to explain it or what I'm going to do about it in any meaningful way. I'll keep you posted on what we're doing as we go along. To give you a stream of hopeful rhetoric would be a waste of time. There's work to be done.
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