I mean in terms of foreign policy (keep USA an unchallenged number 1 militarily and economically) and willingness to use surveillance as a mechanism of control.

I mean in terms of foreign policy (keep USA an unchallenged number 1 militarily and economically) and willingness to use surveillance as a mechanism of control. I get your point that socially or whatever she's not a neocon, but we're not talking about views on abortion, etc. in this thread. Do you have a better word than neocon? > Janet Napolitano [was] the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama. That qualifies her w.r.t. surveillance and exercise of power. Sounds a lot like her approach to the UC system! Barack Obama, while a Democrat, commands a fleet of extrajudicial killing machines that have been used to murder American citizens without trial. It was during Napolitano's time at DHS that drones for surveillance and control (read: killing) became cemented as governmental policy. Elsewhere here commenters mentioned John Yoo and Condi Rice for their roles in enabling W's torture policy. How is Napolitano's support for drones (and many other things - http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/17/janet-napolitanos-orwellian-legacy.html http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/17/janet-napolitanos-...) different?