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.”
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).