Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that "the system worked."Asked by CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union" how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who has been charged with trying to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the jet, Napolitano responded: "We're asking the same questions."
She then went on to say that there's no suggestion the terrorist was improperly screened.
Sheez. We're led by incompetents. Napolitano should be fired post haste for this sort of idiocy.
Jonah Goldberg speaks for me:
Napolitano has a habit of arguing that DHS is a first responder outfit. Its mission is to deal with "man-caused-disasters" afer they occur. It appears she really believes it. If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly unqualified hack.
And then in 2012, we'll fire the unqualified hack responsible for appointing all the others found in this administration.
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Comments (30)
If this is proof that the s... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Kim Priestap | December 27, 2009 1:42 PM | Score: 8 (10 votes cast)
If this is proof that the system worked then I am not getting anywhere near an airplane until we have an administration that goes back to making preventing terrorist attacks its first priority.
1. Posted by Kim Priestap | December 27, 2009 1:42 PM |
Score: 8 (10 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 13:42
2. Posted by Eric | December 27, 2009 2:01 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
There are two basic approaches to disaster planning; proactive management and reactive management. Proactive management, means planning to prevent a security lapse before it occurs. Reactive management means planning on a response after a security lapse has occurred.
In disaster planning, you need to plan for both, but it is patently STUPID to focus so much attention on one that the other becomes a vulnerability.
I fear that DHS is focusing too much attention on reactive planning than proactive planning.
2. Posted by Eric | December 27, 2009 2:01 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:01
3. Posted by TexBob | December 27, 2009 2:03 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
The "System" was a Dutch passenger with courage and balls coupled with an inept Nigerian muslim terrorist.
Janet Napolitano is an absolute clueless idiot and one only has to look at Barry Soetero to see why she was appointed to such a position.
They will have the blood of thousands on their hands soon enough when the next muslim terrorist is just a little bit more competent.
3. Posted by TexBob | December 27, 2009 2:03 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:03
4. Posted by Staylor | December 27, 2009 2:05 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
How did Obama find all of these mental midgets anyway. What's the old saying: once its happenstance, twice its coincidence, three times its enemy action. How many morons and ideolouges and otherwise innapropriate nominees has Obama had. A dozen? More? To have such a high rate of failure one could almost think that he was deliberatly choosing terrible nominees for some reason.
All of this adds up to the obviose; Obama is a Rovian plant with a mission to utterly destroy the Democratic Party. Victory is Ours!
4. Posted by Staylor | December 27, 2009 2:05 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:05
5. Posted by Saterp | December 27, 2009 2:09 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Why would they fire her? She's exactly what they want.
5. Posted by Saterp | December 27, 2009 2:09 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:09
6. Posted by Michael | December 27, 2009 2:12 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Come on Sturmy lets hear your knee-jerk defense of this joke of a Obama moron? Come on give a go!
6. Posted by Michael | December 27, 2009 2:12 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:12
7. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 2:15 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that "the system worked."
If the system worked, Barry and the rest of these freakazoids would be in San Quentin.
7. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 2:15 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:15
8. Posted by Les Nessman | December 27, 2009 2:18 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Heckuva job, Napolitanie!
8. Posted by Les Nessman | December 27, 2009 2:18 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:18
9. Posted by DaveD | December 27, 2009 2:24 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
This warrants some very serious questions. Yet, I chuckle in anticipation guessing how Gibbs handles the "clarification" at the next press briefing.
9. Posted by DaveD | December 27, 2009 2:24 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:24
10. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 2:25 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Another disruption on flight 253? Thanks a lot Barry, good job!
10. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 2:25 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:25
11. Posted by jim m | December 27, 2009 2:36 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Why is it that the system "works" when a terrorist is allowed to smuggle explosives aboard a plane and tries to blow it up, but it doesn't work when some non-security threat crashes a White House event?
Perhaps it's because these liberal egg-heads take their own security very seriously and they believe that the great unwashed masses do bot warrant or deserve to be secure.
11. Posted by jim m | December 27, 2009 2:36 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:36
12. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 2:48 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Thanks Jim! Im secure in the fact that these egg-heads do not have any determination on where We go after this life..
Do You think this may be a ruse by Al Quaeda and the World Bank to sneak something bigger in place while were distracted by these mini melodramas?
12. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 2:48 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:48
13. Posted by Dr Carlo Lombardi | December 27, 2009 2:52 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Napolitano meets the brain-dead leftard requirement for qualifications: she's 'diverse'.
13. Posted by Dr Carlo Lombardi | December 27, 2009 2:52 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:52
14. Posted by ODA315 | December 27, 2009 2:54 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
I'm sure they'll convene a hearing to find out what went wrong. LOLOLOL
Like they really believe their #1 job is to protect us.
btw, how's implementing the 9-11 commission recommendations going?
F*cking clowns.
14. Posted by ODA315 | December 27, 2009 2:54 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 14:54
15. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 3:06 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Why do the terrorists flock to Detroit? High unemployment and crime? I get it' they want to live Barry's American dream!
It's a PR move by Barry Hussein to boost His 19% approval numbers.
15. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 3:06 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 15:06
16. Posted by Steve WH | December 27, 2009 3:14 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Listen to the video - get the context. She is not talking about what happened before the attack but the response by airlines, controllers passing on info etc afterwards.
She is still an idiotic (I am NOT defending her)to have said this as the next attack will call these reponses into question.
16. Posted by Steve WH | December 27, 2009 3:14 PM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 15:14
17. Posted by jim m | December 27, 2009 3:22 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Steve,
I think your comment proves the point that Napolitano perceives the DHS as an agency that responds to terrorist events rather than doing something that prevents them. DHS was originally intended to prevent terrorist acts on our shores. Napolitano has taken the agency and turned it into a janitorial crew for cleaning up disasters and for finding reasons to spy on conservatives.
17. Posted by jim m | December 27, 2009 3:22 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 15:22
18. Posted by bobdog | December 27, 2009 3:28 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
I'd grade her performance so far as a solid B+.
You betcha.
18. Posted by bobdog | December 27, 2009 3:28 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 15:28
19. Posted by xiphos | December 27, 2009 3:38 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Just look at the incompetent people this fool of a president has surrounded himself with. The voters had better wake up in 10 and 12. The guys at Muppett Labs are better "suited" than this administration!
19. Posted by xiphos | December 27, 2009 3:38 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 15:38
20. Posted by Steve WH | December 27, 2009 3:41 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Jim m
Good point. You just expressed it far better than me!
20. Posted by Steve WH | December 27, 2009 3:41 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 15:41
21. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 4:46 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"The guys at Muppett Labs are better "suited" than this administration!"
The air-heads floating by in the Macy's parade could run this economy better! At least Clinton had enough sense (albeit between His legs) to leave well enough alone and not screw with the economy.. I guess Barry has to mess around with something.
"What kind of idiot is Janet Napolitano"
Waco brings to mind another whacko Janet from the id..
21. Posted by 914 | December 27, 2009 4:46 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 16:46
22. Posted by GarandFan | December 27, 2009 5:38 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Why those sneaky bastards at TSA! Developing a 'new method of detection' right under our noses. Spend 20 minutes in the can and you get arrested for 'terrorism'. Can I use that word or is it still called a "MCD incident"?
22. Posted by GarandFan | December 27, 2009 5:38 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 17:38
23. Posted by Gmac | December 27, 2009 5:53 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
DHS has turned into a Historical Forensic Agency, much like the police, they are there *AFTER* the fact to collect evidence in an attempt to prove a crime was committed.
The TSA didn't have a hand in preventing this, the overseas security screener's screwed that up. That TSA has implemented a 1 hour sit in your seat policy shows just how inept they really are.
Yep, I'll drive, it's safer.
23. Posted by Gmac | December 27, 2009 5:53 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 17:53
24. Posted by Marc | December 27, 2009 6:45 PM | Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Janet Napolitano?
I seem to remember that name, of yeah... Napolitano while Governor vetoed a bill that, (1) post-Kelo, aimed to protect property owners against abuses of the governmental power of eminent domain, (2) vetoed numerous bills that would have protected gun rights. (A couple of examples are here.) (3) vetoed numerous pro-life measures, including bans on partial-birth abortion, laws seeking to ensure informed consent and parental involvement, bars on taxpayer funding of abortion, and protection of conscience rights.
Yep, that's the same asswipe, and NOW she's in charge of EVERYONE's safety.
Lotsa luck to us.
24. Posted by Marc | December 27, 2009 6:45 PM |
Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Posted on December 27, 2009 18:45
25. Posted by Meiji_man | December 27, 2009 9:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Best thing Obama ever did was to get that woman out of this state. He'll win Arizona next election because of that.
Arizona's win, America's loss...
25. Posted by Meiji_man | December 27, 2009 9:28 PM |
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Posted on December 27, 2009 21:28
26. Posted by Miguel Sanchez | December 28, 2009 4:00 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
http://firenapolitano.com/
website to fire Janet
26. Posted by Miguel Sanchez | December 28, 2009 4:00 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 28, 2009 04:00
27. Posted by ablbert | December 28, 2009 6:55 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
comment from asia, having such a leader in the organisation making such an comment, really is amazing.
if i were the parents and members of the passengers in the plane, i would have slapped her left and right.
i can understand why she made such a comment, as she is well guarded by layers of security guards acting as human bomb shields
27. Posted by ablbert | December 28, 2009 6:55 AM |
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Posted on December 28, 2009 06:55
28. Posted by Royce | December 28, 2009 7:19 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The Queensland (Aust) Premier is vacationing in the U.S. at this moment, maybe she is moonlighting by giving idiot lessonf to your J.N.
28. Posted by Royce | December 28, 2009 7:19 AM |
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Posted on December 28, 2009 07:19
29. Posted by _Mike_ | December 28, 2009 8:48 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Is there any reason for the answer to be limited to only one type of idiot ? If so, I'll need to define some metatypes...
29. Posted by _Mike_ | December 28, 2009 8:48 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 28, 2009 08:48
30. Posted by Hangtown Bob | December 28, 2009 12:03 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
What kind of idiot is Janet Napolitano?
SIMPLE ANSWER !!!
An Obama-type IDIOT !!!
30. Posted by Hangtown Bob | December 28, 2009 12:03 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 28, 2009 12:03