Jeh Johnson Quotes

Fugate had pinpointed the failure of large transformers as one of his greatest areas of concern: “If you cause overloads and you cause significant damage to the very large transformers, that’s probably one of the most difficult things” for us to respond to, “because there [are] very few manufactured in the United States.” Asked what he would say were Jeh Johnson or the president to ask whether FEMA was prepared for such a scenario, Fugate responded bluntly, “No.

The callousness of the Obama administration on all of these issues was demonstrated on July 14, 2015, when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before the House Judiciary Committee. Under questioning by Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) about the murder of Kate Steinle by an illegal alien, Johnson made it clear he had no knowledge of the case: REP. CHABOT: Has the administration reached out to the Steinle Family, to your knowledge? SEC. JOHNSON: To who? REP. CHABOT: To the family of the woman who was brutally murdered by this individual who had committed seven different felonies in four different states and to my understanding had been deported, kept coming back, has the administration reached out to that family? SEC. JOHNSON: I’m sorry, I don’t know the answer to that question, sir. Perhaps no exchange speaks more cogently to the Obama administration’s icy indifference to the damages, injuries, deaths, and fallout from its illegal alien policies and its mishandling of immigration over the entire eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency.

the frustration was knowing that the FBI’s silence had helped Putin succeed and that more exposure could have given the American people the information they needed. While Brennan and Reid had their hair on fire and Comey was dragging his feet, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell was actively playing defense for Trump and the Russians. We know now that even after he was fully briefed by the CIA, McConnell rejected the intelligence and warned the Obama administration that if it made any attempt to inform the public, he would attack it for playing politics. I can’t think of a more shameful example of a national leader so blatantly putting partisanship over national security. McConnell knew better, but he did it anyway. I know some former Obama administration officials have regrets about how this all unfolded. Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the House Intelligence Committee in June 2017 that the administration didn’t take a more aggressive public stance because it was concerned about reinforcing Trump’s complaints that the election was “rigged” and being “perceived as taking sides in the election.” Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, whom I’d come to trust and value when we worked together in President Obama’s first term, told the Washington Post that the Obama administration was focused on a traditional cyber threat, while “the Russians were playing this much bigger game” of multifaceted information warfare