Rep. Peter King: "The System Did Not Work"

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[Sub-Driver]

Rep. Peter King: "The System Did Not Work" Republican Congressman Says Administration Should Be Doing More to Remind People "How Deadly This Enemy Is"

By Kevin Hechtkopf

(CBS) Republican Rep. Peter King said Sunday on CBS' "Face The Nation" that the attempted terrorist attack aboard a Delta/Northwest flight on Christmas Day shows "the system did not work," despite comments made by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.

"Earlier today, Secretary Napolitano said the system worked. The fact is the system did not work," the New York congressman told host John Dickerson. "We have to find a bipartisan way to fix it. He made it on the plane with explosives and he detonated the explosives."

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In the interview, King also called for President Obama or members of his administration to use the failed attack as a "teaching moment" to remind Americans "how deadly this enemy is."

"I think it's important for the president or the secretary to be more out there and reminding the people just how real this threat was and how deadly it is," King said. "This is a teaching moment, to use the president's term. And I believe that he or the secretary or the vice president or the attorney general should be out there reminding the American people, saying this shows how deadly this enemy is. This shows how real this threat is and why we have to do whatever we possibly can to protect the American people."

[jessduntno]

“Earlier today, Secretary Napolitano said the system worked.’

She really did...it was like a Baghdad Bob interview...

[ExTexasRedhead]

We have enemies within our government trying to destroy our country via their DeathCare and the destruction to our Constitution!

Behold an example of what resides in the US Congress; an Elitist drunkard that disgraces his country and the state he represents. Clean the RAT sewer in 2010 and 2012

http://newsrealblog.com/2009/12/26/senator-max-baucus-in-a-drunken-tirade-on-senate-floor/

Another Elitist disgrace:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGR83Imoto

[sthguard]

The Left, however, is convinced that the real threat to World Peace and Enlightenment (© Barack Obama, 2008) is some combination of capitalism, Christianity, and American prosperity. Ergo they'll never fully admit or act on the real threat from Islam, "radical" or otherwise.

[rellimpank]

—fortunately, the most important failure was in the so-called bomb—

[EGPWS]

In the interview, King also called for President Obama or members of his administration to use the failed attack as a "teaching moment" to remind Americans "how deadly this enemy is."

Instead he will use it to take away even more of our freedoms as soon and as much as he can as to not to waste a good crisis.

I don't know why but every time I read about this story I miss summer and golf sessions.....strange

[Erik Latranyi]

“Earlier today, Secretary Napolitano said the system worked."

For this alone, Napolitano should resign.

[TheConservativeParty]

I’d reverse what King said and state “Someone needs to remind the Admistration how deadly this enemy is..”.

The People know.
This Administration won’t even say “terrorist”.
Obama, being the muslim usurper he is, will “phone in” his fake concern over the safety of America for the entire sad lenght of his term.
We will not be protected fully until he is out of office.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Thank God for Congressman Peter King (NY)!!! He knows the ticket!!! Sadly, the Homeland Security Secretary is a total buffoon and the POTUS Obama is playing in his empty suit and adoration for those who seek to destroy the USA!!! Can you imagine, not one word from the mouth of Barack “Hussein” Obama about this terrorist attack, just the White House says......!!! Obama is too busy playing golf and walking the beach in Hawaii!!! America, you better wake up quickly and address this weak sister POTUS with a giant ego, because he will not save you or your children or grandchildren. He and his Democrat Party are too busy bankrupting the country!!!

[Las Vegas Ron]

—fortunately, the most important failure was in the so-called bomb—

Ditto that

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Napolitano with her deer in the headlights look, babbling her incoherent and insulting gobbedlygook about how the system worked
is the embodiment of the Joker Administration.
Passengers should be terrified instead of reassured.

[Earthdweller]

It’s not just this system that’s not working. The crooks and bullies are in charge of the entire thing from top to bottom. The sharks have broken through our checks and balances and have floated to the top, looking to go global. The entire system is broken and they are posed to devour, circling for the kill.

[muawiyah]

Napolitano is a public menace.

Obama now has his chance to literally shoot an imbecilic, incompetent cabinet level officer WITHOUT Criticism from anyone.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I saw that interview with Napolitano. I couldn’t believe my ears. She said the system worked, in that, passengers and crew stopped the guy from blowing up the plane. And, she said the system worked in that, we have now responded with some additional security measures, in response to the new type of threat which has been revealed.

And after Obama has been making nice with the Muslim world, we’re still terrorist targets???????

[Cicero]

The Fort Hood shootings would never have happened if Obama and his flunkies had done their job.

And this near loss of a plane full of passengers on Christmas Day never would have happened if Obama and his flunkies had done their job.

There were clear warning about both terrorists. And they were simply ignored. And then they ignore the fact that they ignored the terrorists, and try to cover it up.

And the media helps. I could almost wish that some Muslim terrorist would blow up the NT Times building. But even if they did, I don’t suppose the surviving media would change their ways. Bill clinton ordered the bombing of Belgrade TV and the deaths of the civilian technicians who were working there, people who had extended generous hospitality to our reporters there. Our media never even blinked.

[rellimpank]

—since in the course of my professional life I supervised or took part in the detonation of over twenty million pounds of explosives, which would have included tens of thousands of pounds of PETN (as a detonator and detonating cord component), I eagerly await a better explanation of this “bombing” attempt than has appeared so far—

[jessduntno]

“She said the system worked, in that, passengers and crew stopped the guy from blowing up the plane.”

Not what you want to hear from the head of an organization that has spent a trillion dollars, created an entirely new liberty thieving organization and failed...

[screaminsunshine]

How many people will PC kill? The only reason that the plane did not crash and burn is the detonator failed. PC will get us all killed. How easy is it to figure out we need to PROFILE all Muslims? Duhhh.

[rellimpank]

—was exposed to the ABC version of Janet—it even left my sister-in-law and wife shaking their heads in disbelief-—

[Brilliant]

“We have to find a bipartisan way to fix it.”

The reason the GOP can’t fix anything is that they insist on acting in a bipartisan way. The Democrats don’t want to fix things. They just want power. Get that thru your head, King.