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HOLD ON THERE

We have to try to be as accurate as possible.

It looks like she just said the RESPONSE SYSTEM worked:

Homeland Security chief: No sign airplane attack part of larger plot
Despite a possible tragedy, Napolitano said the response system worked as passengers and crew avoided panic and subdued the suspect while authorities notified other flights in the air and kept the air transport system operating.

While I believe it is naive for her suggest he acted alone, she did say:

"Right now we have no indication that it is part of anything larger," Napolitano told CNN's "State of the Union" program.

This is what your link says:

Despite a possible tragedy, Napolitano said the response system worked as passengers and crew avoided panic and subdued the suspect while authorities notified other flights in the air and kept the air transport system operating.

Did anyone hear what was actually said? All of Napolitano’s other remarks are in quotes, but not this one.

Even if she said “RESPONSE SYSTEM WORKED”, she is splitting hairs.
She's saying the system worked because there was a hero on board and acted bravely on the flight and the terrorist is hauled off to jail. I don't think anyone doubted the terrorist would be hauled off to jail.

Here's what someone posted earlier in her interview with
Jake Tapper today.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-napolitano-gibbs-mcconnell/story?id=9428037&page=2

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?

TAPPER: But, Secretary Napolitano, you keep saying 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.