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."
“Bagdad Butch was never qualified for this job and should be FIRED!”
Absolutely. She wasn’t even remotely qualified to be governor of AZ and we’re paying the price for her spending and love of illegal immigration.
“The system worked” sounds better than “The bomber failed.” And hey!...the Dem base buys it!
It reminds me of when they banned cell phones after 9/11, knowing that cell phones were a crucial tool in the fight against the terrorists.
“And you wanted to be my latex salesman!” [Said Jerry to Janet N. on “Seinfeld” as she comes running out of the bathroom with her pants around her ankles and pitches forward onto her face.”
or alternatively
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” [Wendy on the Adams Family.]
I’d like to see the video clip of this from CNN’s “State of the Union”, but I imagine CNN will ferret out and destroy any private attempts to post the clip, and certainly they won’t post it themselves.
We can only hope Fox will rebroadcast it.
She should have been on that flight.Man we all have to watch our own back’s.They fly on Presidential planes.
This terrorist attack was thwarted by the power of the individual.
One of our most potent weapons against the forces of evil is the courage and quick thinking of the individual.
Tapper thinks so too. He kept questioning Napolitano, but she kept handing Tapper a crap sandwich.
TAPPER: Well, let me ask you a question about intelligence-sharing. When the suspect’s father went to the U.S. embassy in Nigeria and said, I’m worried because my son is displaying extremist religious views, how was that information shared with other parts of the U.S. government, or did it just stay at that U.S. embassy?
NAPOLITANO: Well, again, we are going to go back and really do a minute-by-minute, day-by-day scrub of that sort of thing.(yada,yada,yada)
TAPPER: But, Secretary Napolitano, you keep saying(yada,yada,yada) everybody acted the way they were supposed to. Clearly the passengers and the crew of that Northwest Airlines flight did. But I think there are questions about whether everybody in the U.S. government did.
SURE IT DID!
As we all know – thanks to being told so by successive administrations — Islam is the religion of peace*. Thanks to the actions of one brave passenger — who fully understood that he had nothing to lose — this incident remained a small one.
Thanks to PC and the chronic disease known as “Cranial Anal Inversion Syndrome” among most alleged American “leaders” all the way up to the White Mosque — er — House, this “small” incident — and all like it in the future — will disappear down the Orwellian memory hole.
I suspect the primary cause of the failure to put this guy – and only God knows how many more — on a no-fly list is that the folks down the food chain and on the ground who are SUPPOSED to keep these MUSLIM idiots off commercial flights are severely conflicted. On one hand, they are tasked to keep flying safe. On the other, they’ve all had multiple memos and “sensitivity sessions” stressing that they MUST NOT PROFILE but be especially alert to the feelings of Muslims. Any actions taken against them MUST be fully justified and documented. The vernacular expression dealing with that is “CYA.” And so they do — while the rest of us die or, thanks to the actions of a passenger, have a very close call on approach to Detroit.
Compounding the problem is that this particular miscreant was not only a Muslim but a black guy from Nigeria. And the American president is _________ (fill in the correct color) and, having been born to a Muslim father and raised in a Muslim country, sympathetic to the religion of _________. (fill in the appropriate term).
The response to this near-tragedy? Fatherland Security now keeps passengers in their seats for the last hour of the trip!! Great! I suspect sales of Depends will soon spike. Now these folks will die at 35,000 feet and the wreckage will be strewn over hundreds of square miles making it virtually impossible to determine if it WAS an act of mass murder by (select one) an angry Norwegian, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, a Muslim nutcase. A few more of these and the air travel industry will be COMPLETELY dead.
By their INACTION and persistence in their denial that we are at war with a determined and dedicated enemy, these alleged “leaders” have 100% guaranteed that the next one will NOT be “small.”
* BTW, “peace” has two definitions:
1. The absence of conflict or war.
2. The ABSENCE or SUPPRESSION OF RESISTANCE TO SOME FORCE, POLICY, IDEOLOGY or POLITICAL SYSTEM, etc. WITH WHICH ONE HAS AN ABIDING DISAGREEMENT WHICH ONE WOULD OTHERWISE ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT TO THE POINT OF TAKING UP ARMS.
The System worked because by letting a terrorist on the flight it helped to divert attention from health care.
They also perfected the art of smoke signals to the President in Hawaii who was immediately informed three hours later.
If I were a terrorist, I’d feel pretty confident now.
If they hit us multiple times at once right now, THE ONE would not jump to any conclusions.
The individual, unharnessed by political correctness or any other form of groupthink.
I guess next time I travel, I’ll put a “want ad” out for some Dutch dude to fly with me.
The System worked because by letting a terrorist on the flight it helped to divert attention from health care.
The incompetence of Barack Hussein Obama and his Black Muslim Presidency is limitless:
1. Obama’s FBI did not alert the ARMY that Maj Nidal Hassan was a Muslim Extremist.
2. Obama’s State Dept did nothing to revoke Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab’s VISA after Abdul’s father told the US Embassy that his son was a MUSLIM Extremist.
Now this same incompetent Black Muslim Presidency want to manage our HEALTHCARE!!!!!!!!!!!
Sleep tight..this dipsh!t retard is in charge of our homeland security!
What a friggin’ joke!!!
Get armed and learn how to use the firearm from all positions, with either hand.
become efficient with a rifle and shotgun also.
Buy some books about the use of automatic firearms that may come into you posession.
She is an idiot... they guy was on the wall of the plane above the fuel tank of the plane, either she doesn’t realize WE are not that stupid or she hopes we are that stupid or SHE IS that stupid and doesn’t know the dire facts ... either way, she should be fired.
bump
If Obama cared, he would get rid of her.
The Fort Hood shooting was Nov. 5th. This one is Dec. 25th. Are these attacks going to become more frequent as time goes on?
The man got on board WITHOUT a passport so how did the system work? The former AZ Governor fits in well with this inept Administration. Amateur hour in a dangerous world. Looks like ZERO chose inept people to go with his agenda.
The system obviously failed because he made it to Detroit. Janet is an idiot!
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