Dems: Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job [other cabinet]
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Tags: appointments, arizona, Barack Obama, cabinet, Chuck Hagel, Eric Holder, Governors, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Homeland Security, Jack Reed, Janet Napolitano, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Lawrence Summers, Obama, Paul Volcker, Penny Pritzker, President-elect Obama, Richard Danzig, Robert Gates, Secretary, Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle
Tags: appointments, arizona, Barack Obama, cabinet, Chuck Hagel, Eric Holder, Governors, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Homeland Security, Jack Reed, Janet Napolitano, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Lawrence Summers, Obama, Paul Volcker, Penny Pritzker, President-elect Obama, Richard Danzig, Robert Gates, Secretary, Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle
Dems: Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
25 mins ago [Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:38 pm EST]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_cabinet
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is likely to choose Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to be secretary of homeland security, top Obama advisers and several Democrats said Thursday as the shape of Obama's Cabinet begins to emerge.
The Obama advisers cautioned that no final decision has been made on putting Napolitano in charge of the Homeland Security department, the massive agency created by Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But the advisers said she was by far the top contender.
Thus far, Obama has informally selected Washington lawyer Eric Holder as attorney general and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle as health and human services secretary. The plans could be sidetracked by unexpected glitches in the final vetting process, officials note.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton seems more likely than ever to be Obama's secretary of state. Clinton is deciding whether to take that post as America's top diplomat, her associates said.
Among other Cabinet posts: senior Democrats say there is a strong possibility that Defense Secretary Robert Gates would stay temporarily and later give way to former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig. Even so, Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island also are said to be under consideration.
Democrats also say that several people remain in the running for Treasury secretary, including Timothy Geithner, president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary and one-time Harvard University president; and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
Several news organizations reported Thursday that Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker, who was Obama's national campaign finance chairman, was his leading choice to become secretary of commerce. However, Pritzker issued a statement Thursday saying she is not a contender for the post.
Officials say Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the former chair of White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, is in the running for the Commerce job.
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Not long after 9/11 and when we were at one of our highest security alerts, the public was asked to keep their eyes open for anything that seemed out of the ordinary. Well, some person in my area was creating havoc by breaking open the freeway control power boxes and causing fire along with other problems. Of course they had a heck of a time catching him using helicopters, dogs and all possible tools. My son's friend actually saw this guy at work, saw him do his deed, then magically disappeared from under the scopes of multi-law enforcement. I decided to call Homeland Security and ask them what the risk was to our area and what would be the purpose in someone doing this. Guess what? There was NO telephone number for Homeland Security so how do people report these things? I tried everything. I ended up calling the FBI and they said to report it to the Sheriff. They had no number for me and said to report it to the Sheriff, then the Sheriff would report it to whom ever they say fit.
Well of course the Sheriff already knew but my question was, who could we have reported things to regionally if Homeland Security was really nothing more than a late night commercial on TV?
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