Posted on 12/28/2009 6:54:27 AM PST 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
My Dear Madam Napolitano,
You name was forwarded to me as a person of utmost trustworty carachter. I am the barrister for an al qaeda man who recepient a fortune of $1 trillion pounds dying recenlty wiht no will. He leave it to me desecration to proivde the funds to a worthy cause.
I have determined that US is a worthy cause and I need your help to enter the funds to the US. Please provide travel mercies for my hand picked correspondent so that he can deliver to your possession $1 trillion pounts as well as your 10% fee of $1 billion.
Yours,
Barrister Smith
I thought she said “the system worked”. It worked? It failed? Which is it?
Napoleonitano?
WHO IS THAT CLOWN?
Janet Napolitano is Obama’s lap dog and also is brain dead.
When he is out of office,she along with his crew, will be thought to have followed orders and not care about the consequences. We all know where that leads from history.
Homeland Nappy sez: "The system worked. . . . No, wait! The system FAILED! Of course. . . . It didn't work, it failed. Bigtime. My words were taken out of context. . . . Yeah, and we're, uh, we're undertaking a comprehensive review--a COMPREHENSIVE . . . REVIEW--of all the, uh, policies and procedures that we inherited from THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, and, uh. . . . OUR system will really WORK!"
No Sh*T Sherlock, she’s real quick with her assessments, eh?
Mean-faced clip-haired incompetent pig who endangers the entire country.
She should [ DELETED ].
AND NOW we know why Napolitano changed her tune. They received this release from Al Qaida mocking DHS.
The group said Abdulmutallab used explosives manufactured by al-Qaida members. “He managed to penetrate all devices and modern advanced technology and security checkpoints in international airports bravely without fear of death,” the group said in the statement, “relying on God and defying the large myth of American and international intelligence, and exposing how fragile they are, bringing their nose to the ground, and making them regret all what they spent on security technology.”
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_14079910#ixzz0b16BymTK
Since he was going to kill himself and blow up the plane, why would he fear death in the airport?
In a recorded statement this afternoon, Janet Napolitano stated, “MMMMMM MMMMMMM MMMMMMM Barack Hussein Obama!”
because she did say it....
and she holds that office....
Amateur hour at 1600 Penn continues.
Unfortunately, 3000 wasn’t enough to change the minds of the libs and other idiots in this country that security and profiling are necessary. 4000 more may or may not change it. It will happen and it’s a shame. There are people in this country in high places that should be sent to the Alaskan Artic Refuge, which should be our Siberia. We are the USSA now, right?
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