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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Obama's pick for the next Homeland Security chief replacing Janet Napolitano has alleged ties to right-ring radicals that the agency sees as potential terror threats, sources confirmed Friday.
The connection between Jeh Johnson and 1.4 million potential terrorist leaders with experience in military weaponry and tactics threatens to derail the entire nomination process.
“We figured him to be a second-term pick for a high level position, possibly as Attorney General or a Supreme Court nomination, but this is beyond the pale,” ranted Joe Scarborough on his morning news show before anyone was awake. “This is exactly the kind of guy they’re warning us about, and Obama wants to put him in charge of warning us about people like him!”
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