Posted on 12/27/2009 6:40:13 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Napolitano: "The system worked"
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week 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 sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: "We're asking the same questions."
Napolitano added that there was "no suggestion that [the bomber] was improperly screened."
This will be in a campaign ad in 2010 and 2012. The ineptitude is stratospheric.
If you are talking about the people and their response, yes the hero's stepped forward at a desperate time of need and saved the day for the people on the plane.
Big Government is a miserable failure, and clueless brain dead Napolitino should be retired immediately.
And hey Janet, the larger terrorist plot, that would be Al Qaeda ... dimwits are running the government and protecting America.
Al-Qaida’s system, silly ! /s
It "worked" because the bomb was a dud. Otherwise it would have had a much different outcome.
If the bomb had worked those people would be dead. They were saved by the intervention of God, and a Duch passenger.
The system worked?
I expell lumps in the commode that are smarter than this woman.
Duh.
Had the detonater worked (if it had, we would be minus one airliner and all souls onboard), would she still say that the system worked? Perhaps her idea of the system working is more government employees happily paying their union dues.
on behalf of the whole state of Arizona, I’d like to personally apologize to the rest of the nation for allowing this idiot the opportunity to ever hold public office.
The only possible response:
Janet, you ignorant slut.
Of course, it helps to be backed up by the “plane blows up and burning bits of aircraft and people fall out of the sky” plan.
Also known as the, “There is no indication of terrorism at this time, we suspect a center fuel tank explosion” plan..
The system worked? THE SYSTEM WORKED?? WTH???
The woman is an idiot!
The only reason that we are not counting bodies is because his bomb did not work. After that we have the non-DHS passengers who subdued the RoPer from further attempts.
I am stunned by the audacity of Janet “Reno” Napolitano.
Gunner
Are you sure this isn’t from the Onion??? Did she really say this?
This is the most incredible thing I have ever heard!!!
Someone threw an empty bottle on our driveway that is smarter than this woman.
Thwarted?
From the descriptions I read, it wasn’t ‘thwarted’. The explosive didn’t ignite the way the terrorist planned.
If the explosive had gone off as planned, the plane would probably have crashed and nearly 300 people would be dead.
That is hardly ‘thwarted’.
While it was great that the passenger(s) defended themselves, if the bomb would have gone off as planned, they would have all been lost. The only reason they could take down the terrorist was because the bomb failed.
This statement from Napolitano is one of the dumbest I have ever heard a politician make, and she contradicts herself after the reporter asks the tough question. He should have followed up on it.
Sec. Napolitano has obviously been taking her cues from Pres. Obama: whatever happens, claim it’s a success and was always intended to happen that way.
In truth, the system did work, but only because Obama’s administration didn’t have anything to do with it. The passengers took the initiative to insure their safety, rather than hoping our government would have a clue.
American Airlines has a text in red that new security measures are to be implemented after this latest bombing attempt and to be sure to get to the airport earlier.
What else could they possibly do except strip searches. I already have to take off my shoes and my coat. Is my underwear next?
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