please STFU
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."
except that Baghdad Bob was at least entertaining
Napolitano is excrutiatingly dull and dangerous to all Americans.
“system worked” = “liberal definition of success”
aka boasting that “our liberal policies and personnel totally botched the situation and the terrorist very nearly blew up that airplane full of innocent people... but brave civilian passengers took him down while flames scorched the side of the cabin....... therefore, just as we said, THE SYSTEM WORKED! and aren’t we impressed with ourselves!”
I can say no more.
please STFU
True, but a lot depended upon the failure of the bomb to ignite properly.
"Forget man-made disaster. Just tell that
dumbhead Janet to say: 'The system worked.'"
The bottle was easier to dispose of. ;-)
LOL, apparently she changed her mind. Just said on Fox & FRiends that the system failed.
Privacy advocates, for example, have tried to stop or at least slow the introduction of advanced checkpoint screening devices that use so-called millimeter waves to create an image of a passenger’s body, so officers can see under clothing to determine if a weapon or explosive has been hidden. Security officers, in a private area, review the images, which are not stored. Legislation is pending in the House that would prohibit the use of this equipment for routine passenger screening.
To date, only 40 of these machines have been installed at 19 airports across the United States — meaning only a tiny fraction of passengers pass through them. Amsterdam’s airport has 15 of these machines — more than just about any airport in the world — but an official there said Sunday that they were prohibited from using them on passengers bound for the United States, for a reason she did not explain.
the above from the NY SLIMES article posted on another thread today....
as Napolitano said...the system worked...it is designed to allow some terrorists to blow up some planes (but not all planes) so that the airline industry will fail and can be taken over by the govenment when everyone refuses to fly...and it is designed to destroy the economy....and it is designed to terrify the public....and it is designed to allow the POSident to declare a national emergency and martial law and suspend the 2010 elections. the system is working just fine.
I heard her interview on F&F this morning, claiming that her remarks were “taken out of context.”
She dodged when Brian asked her about the danger of Gitmo detainees being repatriated back to Yemen, in light of the Yemenese connection to the most recent failed terror attack.
This woman is an utterly incompetent political hack.
Gee, do you think we weren’t the only ones who thought she was a loony tunes for even making that risible statement? Still, I’m amazed she acknowledged her error. Usually they just create a “crisis” to distract everyone and move on.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091228/ap_on_go_ot/us_airliner_attack
“Napolitano concedes airline security system failed”
Janet the liberal lesbo, who hates strong Americans and a strong America has just learned she can’t control the foreign media, the internet an Fox News.
At first Janet the liberal lesbo claimed the system worked when the failure was so obvious. Now, she is admitting that the system failed.
When will she be blaming Bush/Cheney/Fox News and Haliburton?
Hopefully Beck/Rush/Sean and others will make her awol at her appointed post.
Typical liberal MO——no matter what catastrophe befalls them, it’s never their fault.
The Obamans are all using the same mood-altering substances———Janet’s sucking up valium and vodka as we type.
The Obama Company Line:
These policies were put in place 2-3 years ago....
It’s Bush’s fault.
This administration can’t protect a White House Party from being infiltrated, they certainly have not protected this country which has had TWO terrorist attacks in just months!!
New tagline.
There was a report yesterday that this terrorist visited Huston Tx last year where a 100,000 Nigerians live...
Obozo put Janet in charge of HLS for the same reason Clintoon made Jake Reno, his AG.
They are incompetent and loyal lesbos.
Now Fox News has carried the reality where Janet said the system failed. The same one she was bragging about Sunday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416247/posts
Napolitano Acknowledges Security Failed in Allowing Terror Suspect on Plane
FOX News ^ | December 28, 2009 | Staff
Posted on Monday, December 28, 2009 6:54:27 AM by MaestroLC
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that airline security failed in allowing a Nigerian on a terror watch list and allegedly armed with explosives onto a Detroit-bound flight, a turnaround from her declaration a day day earlier that “the system worked.”
The secretary’s comment Sunday was widely criticized, given that suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was foiled because his explosive mixture did not properly detonate and he was stopped in his tracks by vigilant passengers.
The suspect, who carried the explosive in his underwear, passed through security at two airports — in Nigeria and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Plus he was not on any “no-fly” list, even though he was on a massive federal database of people with suspected ties to terrorists and his father apparently had warned U.S. embassy officials in Nigeria about his son.
“Here, clearly, something went awry. We want to fix that problem,” Napolitano told Fox News on Monday.
She said officials are doing a complete review to determine what needs to change to prevent such a passenger from clearing security in the future.
“No secretary of homeland security would sit here and say that a system worked prior to this incident which allowed this individual to get on this plane,” Napolitano said.
Her comments marked a change in tone from the day before, when she lauded security officials’ handling of the affair.
“I think the important thing to recognize here is that once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have,” she said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “We trained for this. We planned for this.”
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” she said: “One thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked.”
All the signs were there but ignored — I am sticking to driving not flying.
The WH musta received an avalanche of criticism---she was forced to retract.
She stupidly said earlier: “I think the important thing to recognize here is that once this incident occurred (when the "system" allowed a terrorist to board an airliner with explosives), everything happened that should have. We trained for this. We planned for this.”
The Dutchman who sprang into action and saved the day must be surprised to hear he was trained by DHS (/snic).
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