December 1, 2008, - 11:40 am
Indian Homeland Security Chief Does the Work Some Americans Won’t Do
By Debbie Schlussel
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After the 9/11 attacks, not a single FBI or CIA official was fired. Not a single one had the honor and decency to resign. In fact, as I’ve repeatedly noted on this site, FBI officials who repeatedly thwarted FBI Special Agent Harry Samit’s efforts (see also here)to uncover the 9/11 plot through Zaccarias Moussaoui’s hard drive, were promoted and retired with huge pensions. The fact that they and FBI Director Robert Mueller repeatedly failed the most basic counterterrorism knowledge in lawsuit deposition questions, had no effect. And agents who tried to do their jobs–like Samit and Robert Wright–were persecuted.
And with screw-up after screw-up, not a single Department of Homeland Security official has had the decency to resign (except the guy who was caught soliciting underaged sex online). Hurricane Katrina management, Blackface awards at costume parties, continuing TSA security breaches–none of these were cause for Michael Chertoff, Julie Myers, or Kip Hawley to resign their posts.
Now, we see how real law enforcement officials with class, dignity, and honor behave . . . in India:
On Sunday, with corpses still being pulled from the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel, . . . [Indian] Home Affairs minister Shivraj Patil stepped down from the job to take “moral responsibility” for not stopping the attacks.
And there’s more similar dignified behavior. Failed politicians resign in India, too, after they practiced incompetence by ignoring warnings of Muslims bringing explosives on boats:
Mumbai state head offers to quit
The chief minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra has offered to resign amid criticism of the handling of the Mumbai attacks.
Vilasrao Deshmukh said he was awaiting a Congress party decision. His deputy, RR Patil, has already resigned.
Correspondents say there are calls for more resignations amid questions over the response to the attacks, and whether all the gunmen have been found. . . .
Mr Deshmukh told a press conference on Monday: “I have offered to resign. If the responsibility of the attacks is on the chief minister, then I will go.” . . .
Also, Reuters news agency quoted Damodar Tandel, head of Maharashtra’s main fishermen’s union, as saying he had warned the government about attempts to bring RDX explosives to Mumbai by sea but no-one acted on the information.
Hmmm, that last part sounds just like America.
**** UPDATE: Reader Infidel Pride, who is from India and has always provided great insight into the country, writes that this isn’t actually so classy or dignified:
All the Indian resignations you are describing above were forced by the party chief in private, and offered by the fired officials in public. Reason is simple – India has elections coming up latest 6 months from now, and suddenly, jihad is front and center. Given the number of terror attacks on India over the last year, this resignation or firing was actually long overdue.
The other 2 politicians who are resigning – one of them called last weekend’s carnage a ‘small thing that happens every day’, and that comment provoked outrage, given that the jihadis were/are planning to kill 5000 infidels. The other official took his actor son and producer friend to one of the gutted hotels, thereby displaying crass judgment, and that’s why he’s on his way out.
Nothing noble on their parts.
That is how our great country used to operate … that is until we began thinking and acting like socialists … that is until we let the students run the schools, the inmates run the asylum, and the judges legislate from the bench … that is until the likes of Jerimiah Wright god damned America … that is America today.
And that is precisely why no one took the hit (nor accepted the blame) on September 11th, that is other than those 2,998 hard working citizens that lost their lives that tragic day.
Jimmy Lewis
SCS, Michigan
Blog: http://rougerevival.blogspot.com/
Jimmy on December 1, 2008 at 1:21 pm