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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Judge Napolitano: Google Glass App Nametag & What It Means For Privacy

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Judge Napolitano: Google Glass App Nametag & What It Means For Privacy

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Napolitano: President Can"t Order Drone Strike on American Under Constitution

President Barack Obama does not have the constitutional authority to order a drone strike on an American who officials claim was fighting with al-Qaida and plotting terrorist attacks against the U.S., former Judge Andrew Napolitano said Tuesday.

Obama “does not have war powers to kill an American . . . There are two clauses in the Constitution that specifically protect Americans,” Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, told “Fox & Friends.”

Napolitano said it was “defined as treason” if an American was waging war on the U.S. Under that circumstance, he said American citizens were guaranteed a jury trial and could not be convicted “unless there were two witnesses to the same overt act.”

Officials admitted Monday a U.S. citizen was suspected of actively planning to attack Americans overseas. Officials within the Obama administration stated they had been debating whether to kill him under a new drone strike policy.

The new drone policy stipulates targeted killings must be in an ongoing military conflict, the target must have taken up arms against the U.S., there must be no possibility of arresting the suspect, and the decision must be made by senior political leaders.

Napolitano said the drone policy was written by the president and, therefore, was not U.S. law. He said only the Constitution allowed Congress to write laws.

“Only the Congress can enact a law, especially a law giving the president authority to kill an American,” Napolitano said. “The president’s efforts to bypass the Constitution . . . in foreign affairs is just as unconstitutional as its efforts to bypass the Constitution in domestic affairs.”

The law allowed an American suspected of terrorism against the U.S. to be kidnapped, arrested, or put on trial, Napolitano said. However, to target a drone strike on an individual suspected of terrorism was “an insufficient basis to execute him without a trial.”

Napolitano argued that even if Congress authorized the action against the American suspect, “it would still be against the constitutional protections that he’s afforded.”

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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Judge Andrew Napolitano On Whether Government Will Go After NSA Whistle-Blower

Judge Andrew Napolitano On Whether Government Will Go After NSA Whistle-Blower
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Napolitano Gives Away $5 Million to Illegal Aliens

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Friday, September 6, 2013

Biden says Napolitano deserves high court seat

WASHINGTON (AP) â€” Supreme Court Justice Janet Napolitano?

Vice President Joe Biden says outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano deserves a seat on the Supreme Court.

Biden was speaking at a farewell event for Napolitano, whose last day in the Obama administration is Friday. There is not currently an opening on the high court.

Biden also thanked Napolitano for her service, saying that she made the country safer in her time as head of the Homeland Security Department.

Napolitano is leaving to become president of the University of California system. A permanent successor has yet to be named.

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Opinion: Napolitano stumbled on immigration reform

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will leave her post to become president of the University of California system.

Edward Alden: Obama may think immigration fight will go better with Janet Napolitano leaving

Alden: Napolitano legacy mainly positive in disaster responses, action on terrorism

But he says she failed to make Obama’s case on immigration, made few inroads with GOP

Alden: Obama should quickly replace her with someone to push immigration reform over line

Editor’s note: Edward Alden is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and was the project director for the 2009 Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy, co-chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Mack McLarty, former White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.

(CNN) — There is no reason to believe Friday’s resignation announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is anything other than her jumping at a better job offer — the chance to be the next president of the University of California system.

But the surprise move may also suggest that President Barack Obama believes immigration reform — which could be the signature legislative accomplishment of his second term — faces a better chance in the Republican House of Representatives with someone else in charge at the Department of Homeland Security. The president should move quickly to name a replacement with stronger credibility on both sides of the aisle who can help push the bill over the finish line.

Napolitano’s legacy at DHS will be mostly a positive one. Since the department’s creation in the aftermath of 9/11, the primary job of DHS has been to prevent major terrorist attacks, and the ones that occurred under her watch (Boston, Fort Hood, Texas) were, thankfully, relatively small and probably impossible to have pre-empted. Emergency response to disasters, another core DHS responsibility, was vastly better in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy than it was after Hurricane Katrina.

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But Napolitano was chosen for the job in 2009 because of her reputation as a tough-minded Arizona governor who appeared to have a better chance than anyone else of building national consensus for immigration reform. For her to leave in the middle of the fight shows how far she fell short.

Since the collapse of the last major immigration reform effort in 2007, the strategy of both the Bush and Obama administrations was to bolster border security and enforcement to reassure Republicans that legalizing 11 million unauthorized immigrants wouldn’t bring a new surge across the border. Job No. 1 for Napolitano was to make that case, and the president endured harsh criticism from his supporters while she continued the buildup of Border Patrol agents and fencing, and maintained record levels of deportations.

But there has been little political payoff. Following a key meeting Wednesday of House Republicans to decide on an immigration strategy, for instance, the House GOP leadership issued a statement saying that “this administration cannot be trusted to deliver on its promises to secure the border and enforce laws.”

Napolitano’s supporters will say that she did her job, and Republicans kept moving the goal posts, and there is truth to that charge. But she was her own worst enemy in her inability to make the case to Congress and the public.

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To take one example: DHS had long measured progress in border security in terms of the “miles under effective control” by the Border Patrol. It maxed out in 2010, when 44% of the border with Mexico was deemed under control. The next year DHS simply abandoned the measure, promising a better set of metrics but then failing to deliver them. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, one of the persuadable opponents of the Senate immigration bill, wrote this week that he has spent the past year asking DHS for a report on border security performance and metrics to define security, and has never received a detailed response.

A second example: Napolitano has promised since 2011 to present Congress with country-by-country data on the number of those who overstay visas and remain in the United States illegally, but again she has yet to deliver. Overstays are thought to make up more than 40% of the unauthorized population, and many in Congress believe the Obama administration has done nothing to address the problem. In fact, overstays appear to have dropped sharply in recent years, but Napolitano’s refusal to share the data with Congress has left the mistaken perception that DHS has continued to ignore the issue.

The result has been predictable skepticism to Napolitano’s repeated claims that the border has never been more secure. In the absence of hard evidence, she was left asking Congress to trust her.

Obama’s choice for her successor should be someone who can restore credibility with the fence-sitting Republicans who will make or break the immigration reform effort, and finish the job that Napolitano left undone.

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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Edward Alden.

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Opinion: Napolitano stumbled on immigration reform

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano Resigning

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who led the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security through a host of policy changes in the post 9/11 era, is resigning to head the University of California system.

Napolitano, just the third person to lead the 10-year-old department, told her senior staff Friday she would be leaving for California. She will become the president of the University of California system, which includes UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley, among other campuses. The University of California also announced Napolitano’s nomination to be the 20th president of the statewide system.

“The opportunity to work with the dedicated men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, who serve on the front lines of our nation’s efforts to protect our communities and families from harm, has been the highlight of my professional career,” she said in a statement. “After four plus years of focusing on these challenges, I will be nominated as the next president of the University of California to play a role in educating our nation’s next generation of leaders.”

“I thank President Obama for the chance to serve our nation during this important chapter in our history,” Napolitano said, “and I know the Department of Homeland Security will continue to perform its important duties with the honor and focus that the American public expects.”

Obama issued a statement commending Napolitano for “her outstanding work on behalf of the American people over the last four years.”

Read more at CNS News. By Alicia A. Caldwell and Eileen Sullivan.

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Judge Napolitano vs John Stossel On NSA Spying

Posted on June 28, 2013

Judge Napolitano vs John Stossel On NSA Spying

Judge Andrew Napolitano, who opposes NSA spying, takes on John Stossel, who doesn’t mind NSA spying.

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Posted on June 28, 2013

Judge Napolitano vs John Stossel On NSA Spying

Judge Andrew Napolitano, who opposes NSA spying, takes on John Stossel, who doesn’t mind NSA spying.

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Monday, June 24, 2013

Border security proposal gives Napolitano new waivers

Stephen Dinan
Washington Times
June 24, 2013

Analysts looking through the new border security deal in the Senate say it includes waivers that would let Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refuse to build any new fencing or install the new technology the plan lays out in close detail.

The senators who struck the deal late this week said they were trying to take the decision-making away from the Obama administration and ensure that new fencing and technology would be deployed, but the latest version gives Ms. Napolitano or her successors the ability to waive or ignore those requirements.

In the case of the fence, the legislation reads that “nothing in this subsection shall require the secretary to install fencing, or infrastructure that directly results from the installation of such fencing, in a particular location along the southern border, if the secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain effective control over the southern border at such location.”