Friday, April 15, 2011

The Threat Just Inside Our Door

The Threat Just Inside Our Door
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 14 April 2011 | Editorial

Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 4:12:28 PM by IBD editorial writer

National Security: The Defense Department warns that the cartels making Mexico a war zone are operating easily here too. And a secret U.S. report leaked in Mexico warns of even worse. So why isn't anyone talking about it?
To hear Janet Napolitano tell it, as she did March 25 at El Paso's Bridge of the Americas, security at the U.S.-Mexican border "is better now than it ever has been." The secretary of homeland security has since denounced those warning of Mexico's war spilling into the U.S. as "simply inaccurate" and dismissed warnings from state leaders from Texas to California as nothing but bids to score "political points."

But it's Napolitano who's playing politics, as evidenced by statements she's made that stand in contrast to what the rest of the government says and knows.
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