The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently announced that it will appoint a number of business chief executives to an independent advisory council. Among those executives is GM CEO Mary Barra.
According to a report from Reuters, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that he would add a total of 33 members to the council ahead of its first meeting on Monday. The council will work to “define the department’s strategic vision, strengthen the department to better meet the increasingly dynamic and rapidly evolving threat landscape, and harness technology and innovation to modernize the programs it administers.”
In addition to appointing GM CEO Mary Barra, the council will also have the chief executives from United Airlines, Bank of America, Polaris, Duke Energy, Chobani, and Oracle among its ranks. Further members include former Cabinet secretaries that served under both Republican and Democratic presidents, plus executive leaders from non-profit organizations and law enforcement organizations.
Traditionally, the council provides independent advice to the Homeland Security secretary, while also undertaking research and policy analysis with regard to national security issues. According to Mayorkas, the council selections were made from a “diverse array of fields with a diverse breadth of expertise, so that not only can we tap that expertise, but quite frankly, we can hear from them the concerns that they have.”
“I want to hear different perspectives from different backgrounds, different expertise, different experience,” Mayorkas said.
Several automakers, including General Motors, were impacted by disruptions resulting from the Canadian trucking protests held last month, which resulted in production delays at GM facilities after protesters blocked Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Windsor, Ontario.
Last year, Mayorkas dismissed nearly the entire council upon his arrival, which, at the time, included former Trump-era officials like Tom Homan and Ken Cuccinelli. None of those members remain on the reconstituted council, although former DEA administrator Karen Tandy and New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton are still onboard with the council leadership.
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So companies like gm and Bank of America who stole billions from the tax payer in 08 thanks bush/Obama then United airlines who beats up passengers is going to serve on the board this is a great idea.
trump is your god
God isn’t real and I didn’t say a word about trump.
GTH
That’s not real either grow up.
Yes, I drew the heavens and the Earth with my Sharpie…
Sorry I don’t believe in fairy tails. Go talk about your magic man to someone else. I’m not interested in a book telling me how to live so I can have some everlasting reward when I die.
I’m telling ya, it’s true. I even used nuclear bombs to control the 4 winds of the earth…
I’ll take your word then.
I heard a great idea. In honor of the fools in Washington, if everyone – or enough of us – would refuse to wear masks in airports, planes and transportation on April 1st, maybe we could show those fools that we will fight for FREEDOM in this country too.
Great job, Canadian truckers for standing for FREEDOM.
Billions were never stolen. The Obama administration loaned money during the financial catastrophe created during the Bush era. The money loaned to GM and BoA was totally repaid with interest. In fact, GM and others repaid at an interest rate above the market norm, earning the US Treasury a tidy profit.
Wrong it was repaid with more tax payer money.
Wrong! GM and BoA repaid the loans with interest at above market rates out of profits. The US Treasury made a tidy profit for the American tax payor.
LIAR!!!
No unfortunately the US taxpayers ended up with a net loss of about 11 billion ‘with a b’ dollars for the GM bailout. GM cried they needed the money to save good paying American jobs. But a few years later GM placed a new product the Blazer in Mexico and closed Lordstown and other plants (because they didn’t have a product) losing these good paying jobs.
GM and Mary Barra simply lies.
Taking out a loan and then repaying it IS NOT STEALING!
Do your research. Getting a loan with tax payer money then paying it back with more tax payer money is not paying it back. This conversation took place yesterday I’m don’t talking about look it up yourself.
I am very happy that Ms. Barra is on this board. How many vehicles do you think homeland security buys in a year. GM is a defense contractor, and it should always cozy up with potential customers whenever it has that chance.
Nobody cares piss off!
You might be fast, but not to brite…
Yikes!
Biden: “Mary, what do you think we could do better to protect the homeland?”
Mary: “Sir, you’re doing so well so I don’t think there is anything you could be doing better. I do think that if anyone posses a threat in the future, we should offer them a Hummer EV to not cause any harm. Of course, they’ll be a slight charge to the government.”
Biden: “Yes, a slight charge. We will just say it pays for itself. Now that’s the type of ideas I’m looking for right there! C’mon man, I need more ideas like that!”
Best comment of the Month. I tried adding another little mockery of a conversation between the two incompetents with no obscenity or objectionable language and the censor on here deleted it. Oh yes, this site does have a leftoid censor…believe it !
She’s the darling of the government….
So…..what are Barra’s ‘qualifications’ to be on a Home Security advisory panel?
The PC game is out of control in our country.
💯
Knee Pads.
Just another example of the wokeness of this China Joe Administration. Instead of qualified individuals, we get more diversity shoved down our throats. Biden continues to be on the wrong side of every decision ever made. Mary, run GM before it’s Bankruptcy 102.
Well she f**cked up GM, I guess she can help Biden with f**cking up the country!
trump already f***ed up the country ! What part don’t you get ????????
Cry
GTH
Keep crying
T……..STFU, GFY
LOL, list Trumps’s short comings that he f***ed up the country as you say, and then list Biden’s achievements in the last 15 months. Make sure you think hard and long before you answer… If you listen to mainstream media, you’ve already flunked.
BTW, if you want to know Trump’s achievements, just list the EO’s Biden cancelled….
True. Would be funny if it wasn’t.
Mara Barra has her nose up the Biden administrations rear end soo far she has no clue what is happening at the dealership level.
trump too.
He lives rent free in your head.
Mindless Mary.
About as useless as tits on a boar hog.
She is qualified to screw up any & everything.
Joe just wants to SNIFF her.
Yeah, she totally screwed up GM, Let’s give her a chance to screw up everything else ! she is,……..A TOTAL LOSER !
Wow. I feel so much safer now to know that all of the members of this Homeland SECURITY advisory board are so well steeped in, well you know – SECURITY. Ugggh
What a bunch of racists,…I’m out.
No need to announce your departure nobody cares.
I hope that they as a committee they can find a solution for Vlad the Bad and Xi with their intent to conquer the West. Covid 19 defeated Homeland Security in an exception plan and release. It’s a new dirty game now. The Chinese scored big time with Covid.
Finish the wall so we can have some security!
The CEOs serve on this board and that board; this committee and that committee. And of course they have to spend time with their families to achieve a good “work life balance” when the hell do they have time to run their companies?
If her experience with transmissions is equal to her homeland security knowledge I’d say she’s the perfect pick for a Biden cabinet member. Just need the liberal vocabulary: fair share, victim, social justice, green, privilege, racism. Then you get whatever you want. Look at all the progress we made in a year and a half!
I think its a good idea to have auto manufacturers involed in this committee. With over the air updates to car computer systems becoming a standard, the ability for these systems to remain secure is very important. I dont see Mary as the right person, it should be a CTO of one of the car manufacturers.
Hell she can’t even do gm right. The last thing we need is her incompetence there.
Chobani?
The yogurt people?
Really?
Homeland Security Advisory Panel – Where are the Defense Contractors? Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, Northrup-Grumann, etc. I don’t see one player from Space Park in Long Beach. Also what about the private black operations contractors? L3Harris, United Technologies, Hughes, Space X, etc. Lastly what about the bio lab entities to protect us from the likes of future Asian and Russian virus releases, Pfizer, Merck, Lilly, Genentech, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Abbott Labs, etc.
Is this another giddy, social, junket club? Let’s for God’s sake get real. Surprised that execs from Disney and McDonald’s are not on the list.
Consumer goods and financial products entities to protect us. ???
God please help us.