Trying to pass this obvious west African off as a Sudanese would be like trying to pass a Tongan off as a Swede.
Posted on 12/28/2009 9:46:48 AM PST by Steelfish
Security System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANE
December 28, 2009 WASHINGTON — The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not the success she and other administration officials had portrayed in comments over the weekend.
[Pic in URL] An undated handout photo of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect in the thwarted bombing, was made available by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Ms. Napolitano said Monday on NBC’S “Today” that her remark the day before — “the system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days” — had been taken out of context. “Our system did not work in this instance,” she said. “No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way.”
As criticism mounted that security lapses had led to a brush with disaster on the Christmas holiday, President Obama ordered a review on Sunday of the two major planks of the aviation security system — watch lists and detection equipment at airport checkpoints. Some members of Congress urgently questioned why, more than eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks, security measures could not keep makeshift bombs off airliners.
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Pitiful.
yea sure Janet, out of context.
Thanks for posting the ***NEWLY RELEASED PIC OF ABDUL!!***
/sarc
Yeah, an “extensive review.....dats de ticket. Henceforth, if I see an Islamic mo fo on my flight, off I go.
Her political and public life is OVER!!!
Her political and public life is OVER!!!
what about her “private” life? ;)
Trying to pass this obvious west African off as a Sudanese would be like trying to pass a Tongan off as a Swede.
Undated photo, yet it appears to be a mugshot from some previous encounter with law enforcement.....
DAYUM!
Paula’s really gone downhill since she was fired from “Idol”
Guess Rahm finally figured out how to give us more socialisms by using this “crisis”. Apparently Janet was not in the “never let a crisis go to waste” Facebook fan group.
Looking at the callous on his forhead it looks like he’s a regular bower to mecca.
Obama has made America less protected from terror attacks.
Our POTUS just bows deeply from the waist.
“I tried to blow up a plane and kill Americans and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”
Mark Steyn who is on for Rush has taken to calling her
“Janet Incompetano”
fits
His father was a rich banker in Nigeria. Led onto the plane by his handler, a well-dressed man. No passport. Security was intentionally bypassed.
This idiot was part of a training drill that went live. In the words of Lee Harvey Oswald, “So that’s it I’m the patsy.” Another big scare to bring on more repression and more New World Order.
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