With Napolitano Obama Adds Another Liar To His Administration
Today Obama announced that Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano will be the new head of Homeland Security. Here’s a flashback to another moment of glory for Napolitano when the essentially coached one of her clients’ witnesses to perjure herself during the Anita Hill controversy.
Recall that one of the so-called corroborators of Hill’s story — that is, that she had been sexually harassed by her boss, Clarence Thomas— was one Susan Hoerchner. Hoerchner originally testified, however, that she heard Hill’s account of being harassed during a time period that turned out to be before she ever worked for Thomas. So her testimony not only didn’t corroborate Hill, it undermined her. But in the middle of this testimony, Napolitano — who was advising Hill — took Hoerchner off the record, and a few minutes late she came back and testified that she couldn’t remember the timing. (As David Brock put it in The Real Anita Hill, “Hill’s attorney Janet Napolitano asked to go off the record, and Hoerchner came back suddenly struck with amnesia ….”)
Holder is stained by the Elian Gonzalez and Marc Rich controversies. Napolitano is stained by this and other controversies. And then there’s Hillary Clinton.
Is this the sort of change that we were supposed to have believed in?
