WASHINGTON — Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano’s embattled high-ranking immigration aide took a leave of absence following salacious new claims about the agency’s alleged sexually hostile environment toward men, while Napolitano herself indicated she is pondering stepping down.
Suzanne Barr, who has close Arizona ties to Napolitano, took a “voluntary leave,” according to Brian Hale, spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Barr’s leave, which began Tuesday, comes as two more male accusers claimed they personally witnessed Barr engage in lewd and hostile behavior with subordinates. In a sworn affidavit obtained by The Post but with the accuser’s name redacted, an ICE employee described as an assistant attaché says at a party at the deputy chief of mission’s house in Colombia in 2009, “He said she got too close for comfort.Suzanne Barr approached me and offered to give me a b— job.”
An affidavit by another ICE employee states that just before Halloween in 2009, at a gathering in the ICE director’s office, Barr turned to another ICE employee and called him a “sexy mothaf–ker!” Barr also allegedly “looked at his crotch and asked, ‘How long is it anyway?’” prompting other employees to laugh nervously, according to the statement.
The new claims follow a lawsuit filed by senior law enforcement official James Hayes, who says ICE had a hostile work environment and that Barr rewarded male employees who would “play along with her sexually charged games.” Meanwhile, Napolitano, in an interview with the Arizona Republic newspaper, broached the topic of stepping down as head of Homeland Security and returning to her home state.
“It’s certainly in my mind,” she said. “I don’t know if or when. But I left a lot of my stuff in Arizona. And I’m still a registered voter there.”
Putting your unqualified buddies in positions of power turns out to be a bad thing….who’da thunk it?
Does the Pope wear a funny hat?
Big Sis is a stupendously ugly and violent bull-dyke. How did she ever get elected in fascist Arizona?
What is wrong with you?
She paid the vote counters the most money, duh!
What the voters might want hasn’t mattered in any soit disant election since Eisenhower was in power.
Everybody who wants power is going to pay the vote counters to swing the results of any election their way.
Eventually, you won’t even have to show up to vote. (Why bother the sheeple in their paddocks?)
Its going to be on a big tote board: $ Raised Election Wins.
So what you’re really saying is that you have a rich fantasy life involving Big Sis, two Mexican wrestling midgets, and a cattle prod.
Homeland Security was GW’s boondoggle after he allowed the second attack on the WTC.
The whole war on terror was and is a distraction politicians have created to prevent us from noticing their abysmal performance.
The patriot act and the department of homeland security should be abolished.
On war on terror I’d say jut the opposite: Abysmal performance by politicians and bureaucrats results in a free range and incentive for terrorists.
On Patriot Act – spot on. More useless bureaucrats and more power to the Government has just the opposite effect (because both are inept) than claimed. So, indeed Patriot act and Homeland Security Department should be abolished in entirety for our own safety and freedom.
You’re asking me?! I say Obama and every damned self-serving crony he’s associated with should not only “ditch” big sis but “ditch” public life!
What a waste of a good puppet! Whoever/whatever is pulling Obama’s strings should probably be shot for forgetting the golden rule of farming – don’t kill all your livestock!
… the golden rule of farming – don’t kill all your livestock!
You’re obviously not a rancher in some god-forsaken drought-stricken red(-hot) state who can’t buy fodder for love nor money.
Now, I suspect that if you were a cattle processor you shouldn’t/wouldn’t look too closely at how many legs were still attached to the heffer that made its way into your paddock, or if the foam in its mouth was from hoof-n-mouth, (after all its just going to be killed before being taken apart and sold to Krogers, or Pathmark, or Piggly Wiggly’s, or Sysco, or … [Just make sure your family eats vegetarian.)]
She knows too much, like Obama’s plans for full amnesty after the election.
She fits right in with the rest of this group. Has Obama actually had a cabinet meeting yet?
She’s wonderful and perfect for this job.
Her flaws with Teabaggers is she’s (a) a woman and (b) shes serving her country under some black guy
She has to serve under him. He has no chance of surviving her on top.
I’ve just checked out Suzanne Barr and frankly, I would.
Hey, women have been doing this for years!
Guys! It’s equality in the workplace 😉
What IS your problem!
For some reason I added SATIRE begin and end tags to the post above and they didn’t appear.
Just imagine they are there!
Woman offers me free sex.
I FEEL USED, AND VIOLATED!