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Janet Napolitano

Janet Napolitano
3rd United States Secretary of Homeland Security

Giorgio Napolitano
President of the Italian Republic.

Giorgio Napolitano

Posted: Aug 18 2009

Giorgio Napolitano (born June 29, 1925) is an Italian politician and former lifetime senator, the eleventh and current President of the Italian Republic.

His election took place on May 10, 2006, and his term started with the swearing-in ceremony held on May 15, 2006.

He has been nicknamed "Re Umberto" (i.e. "King Umberto") both for his physical likeness to Umberto II of Italy and for his measured manners

Another nickname he has been given is "Il principe rosso" ("The red prince"), with "red" alluding to his Communist leanings.

Biography before presidency

Giorgio Napolitano was born in Naples, Province of Naples.

He adhered to the local Gioventù Universitaria Fascista ("University Fascist Youth"), where he met his core group of friends, who shared his opposition to Italian fascism.

In 1942 Napolitano matriculated at the University of Naples Federico II.

As he would later state, the group "was in fact a true breeding ground of anti-fascist intellectual energies, disguised and to a certain extent tolerated".[1]

He has often been cited as the author of a collection of sonnets in Neapolitan language, published under the pseudonym Tommaso Pignatelli, entitled "Pe cupià ’o chiarfo" ("To mimic the downpour").

He denied this in 1997 and, again, on the occasion of his presidential election, when his staff described the attribution of authoriship to Napolitano as a "journalistic myth".[2]

World War II

During the existence of the Italian Social Republic, a puppet state of Nazi Germany in the final period of World War II, he and his circle of friends took part in several actions of the Italian resistance movement against German Nazi and Italian fascist forces.

This included occupying the offices of the IX Maggio magazine and using it to publish writings of Karl Marx masked as articles signed by the various components of the group.

From post-war years to the Hungarian revolution

Following the end of the war in 1945, Napolitano joined the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI).

He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1953 for the electoral division of Naples, and was returned at every election until 1996.

Later on in the same year, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its military suppression by the Soviet Union occurred. The leadership of the Italian Communist Party labelled the insurgents as counter-revolutionaries, and the party newspaper L'Unità referred to them as "thugs" and "despicable agents provocateurs".

Napolitano complied with the party-sponsored position on this matter, a choice he would repeatedly declare to have become uncomfortable with, developing what his autobiography describes as a "grievous self-critical torment".

He would reason that his compliance was motivated by concerns about the role of the Italian Communist Party as "inseparable from the fates of the socialist forces guided by the USSR" as opposed to "imperialist" forces.[1]

The decision to support the USSR against the Hungarian revolutionaries generated a split in the Italian Communist Party, and even the CGIL (Italy's largest trade union, then overtly communist in nature) refused to conform to the party-sponsored position and applauded the revolution, on the basis that the eighth national congress of the Italian Communist Party had indeed stated that the "Italian way to socialism" was to be democratic and specific to the nation.

These views were supported in the party by Giorgio Amendola, whom Napolitano would always look up to as a teacher.

From the sixties to the dissolution of the Italian Communist Party

Napolitano then became the party's federal secretary in Naples and Caserta and later, between 1966 and 1969, he was coordinator of the secretary's office and of the political office.

During the 1970s and the 1980s he was the officer responsible first for culture and later for the economic policy and the international relations of the party.

His political ideas were somewhat moderate in the context of the PCI: in fact he became the leader of the so-called "meliorist wing" (corrente migliorista) of the party, whose members notably included Gerardo Chiaromonte and Emanuele Macaluso.

The term migliorista (from migliore, Italian for "better") was coined with a slightly mocking intent.

In the mid-seventies, Napolitano was invited by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to give a lecture, but the then United States ambassador to Italy, John A. Volpe, refused to grant him a visa on account of his membership in the Communist Party.

Between 1977 and 1981 Napolitano had some secret meetings with the United States ambassador Richard Gardner, at a time when the PCI was seeking contact with the US administration, in the context of its definitive break with its past relationship with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the beginning of eurocommunism, the attempt to develop a theory and practice more adequate to the democratic countries of Western Europe.

In 2006, when Napolitano was elected President of the Italian Republic, Gardner stated to AP Television News that he considered Napolitano "a real statesman", "a true believer in democracy" and "a friend of the United States [who] will carry out his office with impartiality and fairness".[7]

Thanks to this role and in part by the good offices of Giulio Andreotti, in the 1980s Napolitano was able to travel to the United States and give lectures at Aspen, Colorado and at Harvard University. He has since visited and lectured in the United States several times.

After the dissolution

After the dissolution of the Italian Communist Party, in 1992, Napolitano joined the Democratic Party of the Left, later Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra, or DS).

Successively, he served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (1992–1994), and between 1996 and 1998 he was the first former Communist to become Minister of the Interior, a role traditionally occupied by Christian Democrats.

In this capacity, he took part together with fellow lawmaker and Cabinet Minister Ms. Livia Turco in drafting the government-sponsored law on immigration control (Legislative Decree No. 40 of March 6, 1998), better known as the "Turco-Napolitano bill".

In October 2005, he was named senator for life, and was therefore one of the last two to be appointed by President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, together with Sergio Pininfarina.

He also served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.

Election as president
Main article: Italian presidential election, 2006

In 2006, his name was frequently suggested for the office of President of the Italian Republic.

The centre-left majority coalition, on May 7, 2006, officially endorsed Giorgio Napolitano as its candidate in the special election that began on May 8.

The Vatican endorsed him as President through its official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, just after the Union named him as its candidate

as did Marco Follini, former secretary of the UDC, the right-leaning Christian party, member of the House of Freedoms.

Napolitano was elected on May 10, in the fourth round of voting—the first round which required only an absolute majority, unlike the former three which required two-thirds of the votes—with 543 votes (out of a possible 1009).

He was the first former Communist to become President of Italy, as well as the third Neapolitan after Enrico De Nicola and Giovanni Leone.

Nevertheless, some Italian right-wing newspapers, such as il Giornale, expressed concerns about his communist past.

He started his term on May 15.

Tenure

On September 26, 2006, Napolitano made an official visit to Budapest, Hungary, where he paid tribute to the fallen in the 1956 revolution, which he initially opposed as member of the Italian Communist Party, by laying a wreath at Imre Nagy's grave.[10]

On February 21, 2007, Prime Minister Romano Prodi submitted his resignation after losing a foreign policy vote in the Parliament;[13] Napolitano held talks with the political groups in parliament, and on February 24 rejected the resignation, prompting Prodi to ask for a new vote of confidence.[14] Prodi won the vote in the upper house on February 28[15] and in the lower house on 2 March[16], allowing his cabinet to remain in office.

On 24 January 2008 Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence in the Senate by a vote of 161 to 156 votes, after the Popular-UDEUR party ended its support for the government.[17] President Napolitano requested the president of the Senate, Franco Marini, to assess the possibility to form a caretaker government.

Elections were held on 13 April and 14 April 2008,[20] together with the administrative elections, and won by Berlusconi, depriving Prodi of his office.

On May 7, 2008 Napolitano offered Silvio Berlusconi the post of Head of the Italian government, following his victory in the general election.

The cabinet was official instantiated one day later, with Berlusconi thus becoming the second prime minister under President Napolitano.

On February 6, 2009 President Napolitano refused to sign an emergency decree made by the Berlusconi government in order to suspend a final court sentence allowing suspension of nutrition to 38-year old coma patient Eluana Englaro; the decree was enacted by Berlusconi himself despite being already notified from Napolitano regarding the unconstitutionality of such a measure. This caused a major political debate within Italy regarding relationship between the President and the government in office.[21]

Posted: Aug 18 2009

Janet Ann Napolitano (born November 29, 1957) is the third United States Secretary of Homeland Security.

An American politician from the Democratic Party, Napolitano was serving as governor of the state of Arizona when designated by then-President-elect Barack Obama to be his Secretary of Homeland Security.

She assumed the job on January 21, 2009, and is the first woman to serve in that office.

She was chair of two state Governors' associations and was named by Time as one of the top five governors in 2005. Prior to the governorship, she served as Arizona Attorney General from 1999 to 2002.

Governor

She was Arizona's third female governor, and the first woman to win re-election.

Napolitano was succeeded by Arizona's Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, who became Arizona's fourth female governor and third consecutive female governor.

Early life

Janet Ann Napolitano was born on November 29, 1957 in New York City, the daughter of Jane Marie (née Winer) and Leonard Michael Napolitano, who was the Dean of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

She was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque in 1975 and was voted Most Likely to Succeed.

She is of Italian heritage[2] and is a Methodist.

She graduated from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, where she won a Truman Scholarship, and was valedictorian.

She then received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Virginia School of Law.

After law school she served as a law clerk for Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then joined Schroeder's former firm, the Phoenix law firm Lewis and Roca.[4]

Political career

In 1991, while a partner with the private Phoenix law firm Lewis and Roca LLP, Napolitano served as an attorney for Anita Hill.[4][5]

Anita Hill testified in the U.S. Senate that then U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her ten years earlier when she was his subordinate at the federal EEOC.[6]

In 1993, Napolitano was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Attorney for the District of Arizona.

As U.S. Attorney, she was involved in the investigation of Michael Fortier of Kingman, Arizona, in connection to the Oklahoma City bombing.

She ran for and won the position of Arizona Attorney General in 1998. Her tenure focused on consumer protection issues and improving general law enforcement.

While still serving as attorney general, she spoke at the 2000 Democratic National Convention just three weeks after having a mastectomy

"Work and family helped me focus on other things while I battled the cancer," says Napolitano. "I am very grateful for all the support I had from family, friends and Arizonans."

She won the Arizona gubernatorial election of 2002 with 46 percent of the vote

She spoke at the 2004 Democratic Convention[9] after some initially considered her to be a possible running mate for presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. presidential election but Kerry selected Sen. John Edwards instead.

In November 2005, Time magazine named her one of the five best governors in the U.S.[10]

As Governor, Napolitano set records for total number of vetoes issued.

She was a member of the Democratic Governors Association Executive Committee.

Furthermore, she has also served previously as Chair of the Western Governors Association, and the National Governors Association.

On January 11, 2008, Napolitano endorsed then Illinois Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for president.

On November 5, 2008, Napolitano was named to the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.

On December 1, 2008, Barack Obama introduced Napolitano as his nominee for United States Secretary of Homeland Security.

On January 20, 2009, Napolitano was confirmed, becoming the first woman appointed Secretary in the relatively new department.

Secretary of State Jan Brewer became the governor of Arizona, as the state does not have a lieutenant governor.

In March 2009, Napolitano told the German news site "Spiegel Online" that while she presumes there is always a threat from terrorism: "I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur."

In April 2009 Napolitano, trying to defend her plans to thicken US-Canadian border security, claimed incorrectly that September 11 attack perpetrators entered the United States from Canada.

Her comments provoked an angry response from the Canadian ambassador, media, and public.[23] In response to criticism, she later said, "Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there."

Right-wing extremism memo controversy

Napolitano was the subject of controversy after a Department of Homeland Security threat assessment report initiated during the administration of George W. Bush, entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,"[25] was made public in April 2009.

The report indicated several factors, including the election of the first black or mixed race President in the person of Barack Obama, perceived future gun control measures, illegal immigration, the economic downturn beginning in 2008, and disgruntled military veterans' possible vulnerability to recruitment efforts by extremist groups as risk factors for rightwing extremism.

On April 16, 2009, the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative Christian public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed suit against DHS on behalf of radio talk show host and political commentator Michael Savage, executive director of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform Gregg Cunningham, and Iraqi War Marine veteran Kevin Murray.

Savage stated that the document "encourages law enforcement officers throughout the nation to target and report citizens to federal officials as suspicious rightwing extremists and potential terrorists because of their political beliefs."

Napolitano made multiple apologies for any offense veterans groups had taken at the reference to veterans in the assessment, and promised to meet with those groups to discuss the issue.

The Department of Homeland Security admitted a "breakdown in an internal process" by ignoring objections by the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to an unnamed portion of the document.

While the American Legion reportedly criticized the assessment, Glen M. Gardner Jr., the national commander of the 2.2 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars, defended it generally, saying it "should have been worded differently" but served a vital purpose. "A government that does not assess internal and external security threats would be negligent of a critical public responsibility," he said in a statement.[32]

Personal life

Napolitano is an avid basketball fan and regularly plays tennis.[33] Whitewater rafting and hiking are some of Napolitano's hobbies. She has hiked in Arizona's Superstition mountains and New Mexico's Sandia mountains and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and the Himalayas. [34] Napolitano survived breast cancer that was discovered in 1998.

Posted: Feb 26 2010,

Napolitano Secretly Hosts Terrorist Groups In D.C.

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In the Obama Administration’s latest effort to befriend radical Muslims, the cabinet official in charge of protecting the country’s safety covertly met with a group of extremist Arab, Muslim and Sikh organizations to discuss national security matters.

Briefing radical Islamists who want to murder Americans about homeland security measures may seem like a bizarre tactic to counter terrorism, but it’s the center of Obama’s famous change rhetoric.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, most concerned about a wave of anti-Muslim backlash after the Ft. Hood massacre, and her senior staff privately met in Washington D.C. with the groups.

Among them was the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, which is a sort of parent organization of Hamas and Al Qaeda.

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media ignored the two-day event which was exclusively reported this week by an alternative internet news company that regularly breaks big stories.

Napolitano actually spent and hour and a half briefing the Middle Easterners about the U.S. government’s new “counter-radicalization” and “anti-terrorist” programs largely aimed at their followers.

The top-secret event was part of President Obama’s innovative program aimed at creating an information-sharing framework with Muslim organizations, even those with known extremist ties and terrorist connections

The idea, laughable as it may seem, is to win over Muslims and get them to collaborate with the U.S. government.

Officially, the Department of Homeland Security billed the event as a low-key meeting with faith and community-based groups to brainstorm about ways to increase engagement, dialogue and information sharing.

After all, the groups are key homeland security partners that contribute to American life and exemplify the diversity that is a hallmark of our country, the agency claimed in a press release.

Strengthening partnerships with these groups will help the U.S. better prepare, assess and respond to threats, Napolitano assures.

This is the same official whose biggest concern was preventing a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States after an Al Qaeda wannabe Army major went on a murderous rampage at the nation’s largest military base.

Last month Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a special order—intended as a sign of respect to Muslims around the world—to allow the reentry of two radical Islamic academics whose terrorist ties have for years banned them from the U.S.

These are just some examples of the administration’s push to befriend the enemy.

Just this week Obama ordered the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to focus on Muslim outreach and diplomacy, a rather unusual mission for the space agency

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