Taking over an agency that is still a work in progress isn’t easy. But apparently she’s getting high marks within the Administration. Her name also pops up as a candidate for the Supreme Court or for Attorney General should Eric Holder ever leave.
BARCELONA — Janet Napolitano stood near the water’s edge, arms crossed, gazing up at a giant X-ray contraption.
It was a sleepy Saturday in Barcelona, and the city port was deserted. But the secretary of homeland security, who had flown in for a few hours on her way to Nigeria, was confronting this elephantine tangle of metal. This stop was the second on an international tour she launched after an attempted airliner attack on Christmas nearly became the Obama administration’s Sept. 11, 2001.
Surrounded by rows of shipping containers, 42,000 of which are sent to the United States each year, Napolitano quickly summed up the magnitude of her task, which even a machine this large could hardly address.
“Is there only the one scanner for the entire port?” Napolitano asked.
Yes, her guide replied. Napolitano winced.
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