By Debbie Schlussel
It’s T-Minus about a year for The ICE Princess, Julie L. Myers, the incompetent chieftess of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sadly, the year cannot go by fast enough, and she’s trying to see how much damage she can wreak upon our nation for decades to come.
The latest is Myers’ claim she’s now going to deport more illegal aliens more quickly. But it’s a lie. Read the small print. The real plan is the exact opposite–it’s to release multiple illegal alien criminals early from jail and allow them to disappear. Hardened criminals fresh from jail will be allowed to sign an agreement promising to self-deport. You really think they’re going to do as they promised? I have some land in the Mojave desert to sell you. It’s nothing more than an agreement to disappear:

(Julie Myers Diet Coke by David Lunde/Lundesigns)

Ms. Myers said the agency would work with states to devise parole programs allowing immigrants imprisoned for nonviolent crimes to reduce their prison time if they agreed to be deported immediately upon release.

The states simply can’t handle keeping tabs on all of them–that’s ICE’s job–and there won’t be buses and agents waiting for every last one of the 164,000 currently estimated illegal aliens behind bars, not even a minute fraction of them. ICE Director of Detention and Removal Operations, John Torres, is too busy partying with Tommy Lasorda and giving cushy jobs to extramarital girlfriends to work that hard.
Yup, as usual, The ICE Princess is up to her old tricks, cross-dressing the plan and telling the New York Times that she will be deporting aliens more quickly in the next year. Yeah, that’s about as believable as her phony claim that “catch and release” of illegal aliens has ended. Uh-huh. more like, they will be quickly “deported” from jail into the Great American Abyss.
There’s so much smoke and mirrors coming out of ICE Headquarters, anyone paying attention feels like Snow White with lung cancer.
When one of these criminals–released early from jail–per The ICE Princess’ request, rapes and kills someone, who will take the blame? She’ll be long gone from ICE and onto her next government welfare job for lawyers.
What’s going on here is that Myers is padding her numbers for some future Bush judicial nomination or a job in some defeated-at-the-November-polls Republican Presidential candidate’s administration. She’ll be able to say, “I deported x thousands of criminal illegal aliens,” when most of those people will still be here and will have disappeared into the great abyss for more crime, job-stealing, wage-reducing, and government benefits abusing.
These aren’t the average people working farms in California or lowering wages at meat plants in Nebraska. They’re far more dangerous and the real national security threat facing ICE in terms of immigration. So sad, it’s being treated like a permission slip for a field trip.
Thanks, ICE Princess. Now go back to your Diet Coke.

By Debbie Schlussel
Last week, I told you about Saudi Arabia’s not-so-tactful demand that French President Nicolas Sarkozy not bed up with paramour/ex-model Carla Bruni while on Saudi soil. They’re not married, and it’s against Islamic law, the Saudis proclaimed (despite the fact that, they have plenty of non-spousal concubines at their disposal in the Kingdom).
Well, Sarkozy bowed to Saudi demands and married Ms. Bruni, last Thursday, to avoid Saudi ire. Anything for those Wahhabis. And I mean anything.
On Sunday, as Sarko began his Saudi sojourn, he was greeted by Saudi King Abdullah (he’s one of the guys with the non-married concubine cadre at his disposal), whence they

initialed accords on education, vocational training, political cooperation, and oil, and gas.

French Prez Nicolas Sarkozy Marries Bim Carla Bruni to Avoid Saudi Ire
You know what that means. It means that, just like George W. Bush, Sarkozy has signed an agreement to allow thousands of Saudis onto French soil on student visas, in the same way Bush has agreed to allow tens of thousands of Saudi students here.
Not sure what the “political cooperation” aspect consists of, but the “education and vocational training” part is scary enough.
So much for all the lauding of France’s new “get tough on Muslim immigration” policies. All smoke and mirrors.
But score one for Mr. Sarkozy, sort of. He matched Bush in pandering to Saudi immigration and visa demands. But he surpassed Bush–and his wife, Laura–in pandering to the Saudis with his coincidentally-timed marriage to avoid upsetting the Saudis.
Mrs. Bush only did the outrage of donning a hijab for the Saudis, after expressly telling USA Today and others she would not. But Mr. Sarkozy married a woman to avoid angering them.
Yup, two major Western leaders egregiously in the Saudi’s back pockets. And so many others who are, as well, only haven’t yet taken a wife for them yet.
And to those who believe that more Saudi and other Muslim students in Western countries makes them more pro-western, tell it to the ghost of Syed Qutb (the pre-eminent Islamic scholar who went to college in Greeley, Colorado and whose writings guru’ed Bin laden).

By Debbie Schlussel
For the past several weeks, I’ve been following tabloid stories about Britney Spears two Muslim paramours: Osama N. “Sam” Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib. And mostly, I thought, who the heck cares? Let them both have her. But I wondered about their immigration status. Lutfi–a former bartender–is Spears new “manager”–and Ghalib–who ran strip clubs–is a celeb photog Spears met while he was staking her out for pics.

Britney’s Muslim Paramour Adnan Ghalib
Now, tons of readers are e-mailing me as there are “news” reports and rumors that Spears will marry the strict Muslim Ghalib (who is married to someone else–I guess she’ll be Islamic multiple-wife #2) and convert to Islam. His Pakistani family attends an extremist Pakistani mosque in Birmingham, Great Britain, right near the Shoe Bomber’s and Zaccarias Moussaoui’s mosque, the Finsbury Mosque, and his sisters reportedly had arranged marriages. Whatever. Like I said, who the heck cares? Let this user with silly landing-strip facial hair have her. It only illustrates how these two Muslim opportunists, Ghalib and Lutfi, are glomming onto and using a clearly mentally-unstable woman who needs help and isn’t capable of making sound decisions.
As you’ll recall, last year, I posted photos of the loony Ms. Spears wearing a giant Jewish Star/Star of David necklace, when she was dating Sephardic Jewish model Isaac Cohen. At the time, there was similar talk that the flitty Spears was going to convert to Judaism and marry him. But it was just that–talk. Glad we don’t have to claim her. We already have cretins like Roseanne and Christopher Hitchens. That’s enough.
Not that I care, but I doubt this bim’s stage mother will allow her messed-up dhimmi-wit pop star daughter to marry this Islamo-hanger-on and give him her cash. They’ll have her back at the hospital sooooo fast before that happens. Don’t watch for the former teen pop princess to be wearing a burqa or hijab anytime soon. That ain’t her thing. She really didn’t mean it when she sang, “I’ll be a Slave for You,” though becoming a Muslim wife to this dude, she’d finally find out the true meaning of those lyrics. And no way her family lets her enter into another marriage like the no pre-nup barely-three day marriage to Jason Alexander.
What I do care about and wonder about is this: Adnan Ghalib comes from an extremist mosque in an extremist area of Britain, and like many British Muslim terrorists, he’s Pakistani. But now, he’s living in the U.S. as a papparazzi photog. How the heck did he get into this country? What is his immigration status? If he’s here on a visa, what kind? He’s working as a celebrity photographer, clearly not a job of which we have a shortage of qualified Americans to fill. Ditto for his other employment running a strip club. We need not import extremist Muslim foreigners for either job. And if he is here on a no-work visa, why is he working?
These are the questions to ponder, not whether a glorified prostitute millionairess and neglectful mother will convert to Islam. Please let her.
**** UPDATE: Britney’s Muslim boy-toy has a green card as a result of an apparent sham marriage. Like I said in the headline, Attention, ICE . . . . And when you deport him, can you please send her, too?

By Debbie Schlussel
What happened with the gazillions in new dollars and expanded budget that the FBI got post-9/11 to fight the “War on Terror”? Not much, apparently.
In the past, I’ve told you about the planned new $100 million dollar FBI palace to be built in Detroit. FBI Special Agents in-Charge have constantly whined that with all of their new agents and increased focus on terrorism, they needed a new building. But, as I told you, the FBI Michigan has had little success in finding terrorists and arresting them, and more success in eating falafel with them at “outreach” pander-fests. In short, the agency–especially here in the heart of Islamic America, Michigan–is afflicted with an edifice complex, but not an achievement ethic. And Michigan taxpayers were going to pay at least $6 million in tax incentives for the building for the FeeBs. Why? It’s not like the FBI would leave Michigan for another state with better tax breaks.

Today, though, I’ve come to find out that the FBI added ONLY TEN(!) new agent positions in Michigan, post-9/11. That’s right, you read that correctly. Only TEN new agents in the heart of Islamic America, after leeching billions off of taxpayers in the name of legions of new counter-terror agents. And after they ripped off the former Customs and Secret Service functions of investigating terrorism money-laundering, plus the claimed increased post-9/11 counter-terror work, you’d think the ranks would have increased significantly, but you’d be wrong. And those ten new agents–just ten new mouths to feed at the shawarmeh buffet at “outreach” meetings with extremist Muslims in Dearbornistan.
Incredibly, the ten new agents figure was disclosed in an article in which Michigan FBI Special Panderer in-Charge Andrew Arena a/k/a “Abu Arena” whined that their new FBI palace deal was canceled due to budget cuts. With so many new agents–just TEN!–he claimed their office has been bursting at the seams post-9/11. Hmmm . . . that’s just over 1 new agents per year since the attacks. Are the ten agents that fat that they can’t fit into the multiple floors the FBI occupies at Detroit McNamara Federal Building?
So, where did the tax money for all the new agents–which turned out to be only ten in 6 1/3 years–go?
Well, as we know, it didn’t go to pay phone bills. As you probably know from multiple news stories, last week, the FBI didn’t pay phone bills in multiple offices, over a period of several months. And, as a result, phone surveillance of potential terrorists was cut off.
FAMOUS BUT INCOMPETENT. Desperate But Not Serious.

By Debbie Schlussel
When I heard Mitt Romney, a week ago Saturday Night, in the ABC debate, claim that he’s the only candidate who “understands radical jihad,” I scratched my head. He refuses to ask his church to stop funneling $20 million plus to a HAMAS charity, or even to say he disagrees with it. I like and respect Mormons, but not this outrageous funding decision by their church. Plus, he made anti-American statements when he headed the 2002 Salt Lake Games that jihadists would love. And then, there was his statement at the ABC debate that he will take the Muslim world into “modernity and moderation.” But, does he really believe “modernity” equals moderation? Um, I guess he’s never seen a jihadist website or been to Dubai. They are more modern than we are. It’s just their ideology that’s back in the 7th Century and good luck to Mitt in bringing it up to date. Oh, and don’t forget Romney’s previous statement at a town hall meeting that he “admires Hezbollah.”
But now, I come to find out, that Hezbollah’s key funder in Congress, Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R-Michigan), is a key Romney guy and has been hangin’ with Romney all over Michigan for the last week. There he is on stage, denoted by a circle, in the picture below, from a Romney rally in the Detroit area yesterday.

Hezbollah’s Congressman Joe Knollenberg Hangs w/ Mitt Romney
Does Romney have problems with the fact that Knollenberg and his state legislator son, Marty Knollenberg, both took thousands in campaign contributions from Hezbollah’s American agents, Nijad Fares and Abdullah Bouhabib, as I’ve repeatedly noted? Apparently Not. Does Romney have a problem with the fact that, to pay these egregious contributors back, Joe Knollenberg single-handedly (with Sen. Spencer Abraham on the Senate side) doled out at least $86 million of our tax money to Hezbollah in 2000, allowing Hezbollah to rebuild its strongholds in Southern Lebanon and expand? Apparently not.
Is Romney bothered that Joe Knollenberg put “Seeds of Peace”–a summer camp founded by Yasser Arafat’s fave biographer–on the federal budget? Or that the camp, until recently run by Clintonista Aaron David Miller, discussed Holocaust denial as a legitimate theory and made Jewish campers and kids of Palestinian terrorists discuss that? Why is our tax money going to this camp in Maine? Ask Mitt Romney’s favorite new Michigan Congressman?
Or ask Joe Knollenberg why millions in our federal money went to the jihadist, anti-Israel National Arab American Museum? He single-handedly went to bat for federal pork for this warehouse of enemy propaganda on our soil. And ask Romney why he has allies like this in Michigan.
Quite clearly, Romney doesn’t understand jihad at all. He has its key allies in Congress as his allies. You know what they say about “the company you keep.” This is the company Romney will keep in the White House. Count on it.
Then, there’s the presence of Katie Packer as one of Romney’s top campaign aides in Michigan. Ms. Packer worked for Hezbollah’s U.S. Senator, Spencer Abraham, whose pan-jihadist activities I’ve noted extensively on this site. She was a senior aide to him and ran his losing 2000 re-election campaign.
I’ve known the Packer family for most of my life. They are one of the sleaziest, most phony bunch of people I’ve met. They claim they are evangelical conservatives who are pro-life and believe in small government. But they aren’t.
But both Ms. Packer and her sister, Lorinda “Lori” Packer Wortz–married to a pork-seeking lobbyist–have strangely, worked in government and losing campaigns for most of their working lives. They’ve never done anything else. When I ran for the Michigan House, they and their parents endorsed and worked for a liberal, pro-choice trial lawyer Democrat, who–like Romney–flip-flopped to run against me. Despite all the evidence against him, they worked for him, because there was money and the spoils of power in it for them.
Lori Packer, when she ran Pat Robertson’s campaign in the Detroit area in 1988, started dating Jack Kemp’s campaign official in the same area, apparently to “do a delegate deal.” (Yes, sometimes political “whoring” needs no quotation marks.) That’s the level of sleaze involved with this family now working for Mitt Romney.
Both Packer sisters work for a sleazy, principle-less campaign outfit known as “The Sterling Corporation,” which wins few campaigns, charges a cha-ching load of money, and consists of a few has-been jealous hags and girlie-men who are all political hacks and nothing more. I hope their results are consistent here with Mitt Romney.
As one of my well-known Michigan conservative GOP activist friends says about the Packer family,

They’re grabbers. They don’t really believe in anything, but grabbing for themselves. They claim they’re against big government, but yet their family is made up of lobbyists seeking pork and others getting government jobs.

They really don’t believe, and that’s inimical to Romney. He doesn’t really believe, either. It’s all about winning. Don’t let him and his sleazy campaign aides and jihadist allies win the nomination.
They’re like in-laws with a bride. They come with him. They’re part of the Romney package. If flip-flop-flipper Mitt wins, flip-floppers like Katie Packer will be part of his administration.
Mitt Happens . . . but hopefully not to the White House.

By Debbie Schlussel
This is Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. No, this is not at a “Halloween in January” costume party. And it’s not at a Pimp-and-Ho weekend. And this picture was taken in January 2008, not in the 1970s on the set of “Sanford and Son” or some Blaxploitation flick. This is at this past weekend’s VIP opening of the North American International Auto Show. It’s also the way he regularly dresses, including–as here–to talk to top auto executives and employers in economically plummeting Michigan.
The “proud” people of Detroit elected this “man” twice, including a second time after he painted his Black opponent as “the White man’s candidate” in race-baiting ads and speeches by himself and his parents. And you wonder why Detroit is the murder capitol and most violent city in American . . . .

Kilpatrick calls himself “the Hip-Hop Mayor.”
This is your brain. This is your brain on Hip-Hop. Any questions?

By Debbie Schlussel
As readers know, I was one of the few conservatives (and others) to see beyond the “Emperor’s New Clothing” when it comes to Benazir Bhutto. I was one of the few to recognize that she was a jihadista, a criminal and fraud artist, and an extremist Muslim, not a peacemaker.
That’s why it’s gratifying to have heard from so many readers that over last weekend, on Saturday, FOX News Contributor and Newsday Columnist James Pinkerton cited me and the New York Post’s Ralph Peters as the only two who got it right. On FOX News Channel, Pinkerton–who in the past has been a sometime critic of mine–said we were right and were the only two who saw the light on Bhutto. Thanks, Jim. (And thanks to the readers who e-mailed about it.)

FOX News’ Jim Pinkerton Cites Schlussel on Bhutto
And, sadly, that will be a big part of the Bush legacy. As I said on this site, Bush exemplified the absurd when he singlehandedly set into motion the chaos we now see in Pakistan. The Wall Street Journal reports that it is the worst violence the country has seen in decades, and both the Journal and USA Today report that several provinces, including Bhuttos Sindh province, are now trying to break off and splinter into independence. If you like Gazastan, you’ll love the multiple miniature Pakistans. The chaos and Al-Qaeda presence will be legion.
And you can thank Bush for all of that. Through his and Condi Clueless’ pressuring of American ally Pervez Musharraf to allow the return of this force of instability, all of this happened–the worst chaos and mass protests in the country for years. Think Musharraf will help us, now? Think again. He’ll be too busy, as he is now, calming his country. Or rather, unsuccessfully trying to. Yes, there have always been tensions and problems in Pakistan, but a dictator was needed–Musharraf–to keep them under control. Now, Bush, set the tensions afire.
Bush and Condi Clueless should have foreseen this. It was predictable. The attempts on Bhutto’s life, the ultimate success of one of those attempts, the mass protests, the splintering of the country which now threatens–all of it was foreseeable by anyone who has an iota of knowledge about Pakistan and the region.
Thanks, President Bush. Love yo’ democracy in action, dude.
Bush’s “Democracy” and Bhutto reintroduction lead to chaos in Pakistan. Bush’s “Democracy” equals HAMASastan in Gaza. What’s next? With a year left, there’s still plenty of damage for this doofus and his bud, Condi Clueless, to foment.
YIKES.

By Debbie Schlussel
President Bush cares a lot about dead Jews. The lives ones, not so much.
It’s long been the domain of the left and something I’ve written about a lot on this site: They love to hate the Holocaust and remember its victims. But when it comes to today’s Nazis and their Jewish victims–the only ones whose lives are yet to snuff out–they side with the murderers of Islamofascism.
Now, President Bush has adopted this tack of the left for his repertoire.
Today, Bush visited the Israel national Holocaust museum, known as “Yad VaShem“ [“A Hand and a Name”]. It was all about symbolism–he donned a yarmulke and lit a memorial candle. And he declared that America should have bombed Auschwitz.

Nice Yarmulke:
Bush Remembers Dead Jews @ Holocaust Museum, Betrays Live Ones
He’s right. America should have bombed the train tracks to Auschwitz. This would have ended the Holocaust earlier and saved hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Jewish–and non-Jewish–lives, the victims of Hitler’s mad plan. But there was no Monica to testify at a grand jury hearing that day or anything of the sort. Still, America entered the war after Pearl Harbor and eventually liberated many thousands of Jews and other concentration camp inmates.
But it is too late for that. What it is not too late for is to help save the lives of a few million Jews and a few hundred thousand Christians living in the area from the current Nazis who plague them from all around.
Instead of visiting memorabilia of dead Jews who died over six decades ago, Bush should have visited Sderot, the city near Israel’s Western border. A visit to Sderot, where Israeli Jews from poor working class families who escaped persecution in Arabic countries are being shelled by missiles from HAMAS on a daily basis, would have been meaningful. That would have been the trip made by a counter-terror President, not one who enables terror. The torn-apart lives of the Sderot residents is a direct result of the Gaza pull-out, a Bush and Condi manufactured production. The missiles are coming from within Gaza. And the people there are so poor, they can’t afford to move. They simply don’t have a ranch in Crawford or a camp in Maryland to escape to.
Or he could have visited Christians in Nazareth and elsewhere near the Gallilee, where Muslims are building–with his ally Olmert’s permission–on top of Jesus’ boyhood home and other holy Christian sites, and from where Christians are fast emigrating to the U.S. due to Muslim persecution.
But nu-uh. Bush is having none of that. He wouldn’t visit these places. Instead, he was at Yad VaShem and later he met with the paymaster of the Munich Olympic Massacre, otherwise known as Mahmoud Abbas.
Bush spoke using the lingua franca of Islamo-empowerment. He talked of “occupation” of “Arab land.” It’s as if he was running for secretary at the November 29, 1964 meeting of the P.L.O. But he wasn’t. He was running for the 2008 Nobel. So sad for him that he’s the only one who doesn’t know he won’t get it. Even sadder for the residents of Israel and elsewhere, for whom Bush’s capitulation is fatal and not just mere rhetoric a year before the permanent spa vacation in Crawford.
He set in stone his apartheid policy for another nation whose sovereignty he thinks is his like a White House mistress. Bill had Monica, and now Bush has the lives of innocent Israelis to soil.
The message is loud and clear: Bush doesn’t really care about live Christians and Jews, just the dead ones. Victims of the Third Reich Nazis? Let’s shed a tear. Victims of the Islamofascist Nazis. Let’s side with the religion of homicide bombers.
So, whenever you hear anyone–assorted leftists and now Bush and his chickie, Condi Clueless–sobbing crocodile tears over the ashes of Auschwitz’s victims, ask them why they now sign the decree for a return to the ovens. And worse.
Take off your yarmulke, Mr. President. And do something meaningful. Otherwise, in 60 years, another American President will be donning a kefiyeh visiting the dictator of greater Palestine, sniffing yet more ashes of the Jews who live today. And the Holocaust museum will long since have been transformed into a mosque. Not even a memory. Ditto for the Church of the Nativity that you also visited, while Christians flee the region in droves thanks to your “democracy” in action.
Dead Jews–a museum exhibit to fawn and cry over. Live ones–let them eat falafel.

By Debbie Schlussel
. . . Think again.
After all the bombs at the box office by anti-war movies–regardless of star power–you’d think Hollywood would give up.
The latest is “Stop Loss,” starring the former Mr. Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe. She had her anti-war pan-Islamist bomb, “Rendition.” Apparently, he wanted his. “Stop Loss,” which debuts on March 28th is about a soldier (Phillippe, an East Coaster with a schlocky Southern accent for this movie), who refuses to return to Iraq. Here’s the IMDB description of the movie:

Back home in Texas after fighting in Iraq, a soldier refuses to return to battle despite the government mandate requiring him to do so.

YAAAAWN. Boooooring. Been there, seen that. Here’s the trailer:

The movie also stars Abbie Cornish, reportedly the woman with whom Phillippe cheated on Witherspoon, which broke up their marriage.
I’ve seen Phillippe–he sat at my table at my Cousin David’s wedding–and, trust me, he ain’t all that. Nothing to write home about. He was rather grungy, even in an expensive pinstriped suit, and I barely even recognized the guy. That he’s starring in this absurd movie, just as the surge is working, makes him even less attractive on so many levels.
Yup, that’s what we need–movies encouraging more deserters. I predict–and it’s hardly rocket science–that this one will be a bomb, too. Neither of the former Mr. and Mrs. Reese Witherspoons should count on splitting any profits on this in the divorce settlement.
You’d think the “tiny” hint of “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” topping the box during the entire holiday season, for the last three weeks, might be a clue for Hollywood. That movie is apolitical. Instead, it’s action, adventure, and a focus on American history and historical sites.
That’s what America likes. The market has spoken. But Hollywood needs a hearing aid.
Oh, and by the way, the movie is produced by MTV Films, struggling to stay relevant and not succeeding. I don’t want my MTV.

By Debbie Schlussel
He of the ever-changing facial hair and little else–that’s Michael “Serpenthead” Chertoff to you–finally has a plan to get experienced people in top positions at the Department of Homeland Security . . . at the END of the Bush Administration.
Wow, it finally dawned on him.
Today’s Wall Street Journal details Chertoff’s plan to make us “safer” than we’ve been during his entire tenure at Homeland Security by actually picking experienced career people in political appointee positions for the time between the outgoing Bush administration and the Hillary Rodham Cankles Administration (let’s face it, she’ll be Prez-ette).

“Serpenthead” Godfather Picks New Cosa Nostra Hierarchy
Chertoff has decided, that although a valley girl from a Kansas City mall has been running Immigration and Customs Enforcement (into the ground) for over two years, it’s now time to pick experienced people for the several months that no-one will be in place to run things.
Chertoff claims that the early part of an administration is the most dangerous time because that’s when terrorist attacks occur and there’s no-one to “take charge.” Hmmm . . . If I were an illegal alien or a terrorist, I’d beg to differ. I’d say that the last 7 years have been the most dangerous time, especially AFTER the terrorist attacks, when this administration spent years doing all it could to cooperate with Islamist forces in not enforcing immigration laws against them and in inviting them to dinners, banquets, and soirees.
But Chertoff believes we are so safe right now that we must find adequate replacements to hold down the fort when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Chieftess Julie Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess” decides to finally raise her kid and quit doing her nails at a desk at the CAB building.
And here’s the cute part:

If the next administration designates new officials early enough, Mr. Chertoff said, his deputies might also be able to take their successors through an exercise “so they know what they are getting into.”

Hilarious.
PUH-LEEZE. Can you see The ICE Princess telling a real cop how to play “Cagney & Lacy”? Or Emilio T. Gonzalez (head of Citizenship and Immigration Services)–a man who knows nothing about immigration benefits except giving awards to himself as best immigrant–giving an “exercise” to someone who actually knows how to adjudicate who should and should not get further checks into their background? Oh wait, he fired all of those people.
The only “exercises” these people know is on a Stairmaster. Well, not sure about the gym part with Gonzalez.
What’s really going on here is the incompetents appointed by Bush and Chertoff actually trying to pick who will run the show, long after Bush is out of office. And, sadly, depending on how long it takes for Cankles to appoint her people, they will have succeeded. Incompetent-ette Marcy Forman-Friedman a/k/a “Peppermint Patty,” the horrid ICE Director of Investigations, will probably “run” the show at ICE for months. Ditto for incompetents like ICE Director of Detention and Removal Operations, John Torres, who spends thousands of ICE money on self-promotion conventions and speeches by “immigration expert” Tommy Lasorda, instead of on apprehending and deporting illegal aliens.
Also interesting is that, Theresa C. Bertucci, one of the three top ICE employees and judges who gave an award to a “Blackface” Halloween costume at an ICE party, is quoted in the Wall Street Journal article. Bertucci, DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary of ICE for Management and a Chertoff crony from the Justice Department, was installed to keep an eye on the immature, incompetent Julie Myers. Hmmm . . . maybe she can give Julie Myers’ replacement an “exercise” in Blackface makeup, which she and Myers later claimed they thought was “just bronzer.”
Her quote:

Theresa C. Bertucci, who heads up management for Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement wing, calls the effort unique. “In my 26 years at [the Justice Department], we were sort of left to our own devices until the transition team of the new administration went in.”

I’d say they were already “left to [their] own devices” at the Halloween party. And they were rewarded for it with zero punishment. Yep, that’s who you want training your new Homeland Security temps.
Good luck, America. Mazel Tov, illegal aliens and terrorists. Michael Chertoff just picked equally incompetent replacements for those who were supposed to enforce the law against you for the last 7 years.
The gift that keeps on giving.