UC’s search team may have fast-tracked Napolitano’s nomination before the lawsuits blew up in court. The suits include extensive allegations of sexually offensive behavior by high-level female staff-charges that would ruin any man’s career. She remains the defendant in lawsuits charging that she discriminated against male staffers and promoted women of lesser qualifications. soil continued on Napolitano’s watch, and her personnel record at DHS was spotty, too. On her watch, the massive federal bureaucracy conformed to the administration’s line that acts of terrorism are “man-made disasters,” and that domestic right-wing extremists may pose a greater threat than militant Islamists. President Obama picked Napolitano, a partisan Democrat, to run the Department of Homeland Security in 2009 because of her purported experience with border enforcement in Arizona. UC Regent Sherry Lansing, who directed a secretive selection process that drew criticism from the Sacramento Bee and others, told reporters, “Secretary Napolitano is without a doubt the right person at the right time to lead this incredible university.” Lansing may be right, but not in the way that she imagines. Last month, the University of California selected former Arizona governor and Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano to lead its ten-campus, $20 billion system.
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