Monday, November 09, 2009

BARACK OBAMA

Day After Fort Hood, Napolitano Bashed Guantanamo in Brussels

Here's what our Secretary of Homeland Security was doing the day after the Fort Hood shooting:

Guantanamo Bay was used as a "recruiting tool" for terrorism more than anything else, US homeland security chief Janet Napolitano said Friday, during a visit to the European parliament.

"Guantanamo has been used more as a recruiting tool than anything else," she told members of the European parliament's civil liberties committee in Brussels.

Therefore "it needs to be closed and the individuals dealt with appropriately," she added.

Napolitano stressed President Barack Obama's commitment to close down the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba in January.

"The president's executive order that it be closed remains in effect . . . we are working through individual by individual," she said.

I guess we can't let an actual massacre on American soil interrupt our traditional talking points and bashing of the previous administration before foreign audiences, can we, Secretary? After all, there's no reason for the cabinet secretary whose job is to protect the homeland to cut short a foreign trip, because it's not like there's any possibility a guy named Nidal Malik Hasan could possibly be connected to Islamist extremists, is there?

11/09 01:01 PMShare