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."
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“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.”
What she said here is that “after the fact” we are ready and trained...to pick up the pieces of whatever is left...
How about becoming “first preventors” instead of “first responders”.........
Wasn’t the Dept of Homeland Security set up after 9-11 because different intel agencies weren’t talking to each other? It was supposed to be the clearing house/coordinating body for intelligence.
So now why after 8 years do we have multiple watch lists with multiple agencies that apparently do not cross-check?
It would seem to me that DHS is failing in its mission ..... or else those agencies realize what a douche DHS has become.
She is in charge of keeping America safe and yet she will not answer any questions. She just repeats stupid talking points.
I am sick and tired of these Obama officials and Congress people going on these programs and not answering any questions.
The safety of my family is at stake and yet this country is being run by a bunch of children... only children would be smarter than these bozos and children answer questions.
This incident unfortunately shows how little Obama cares about terror activity.
Obama is totally focused on making the USA into a Socialist Nation and fighting terrorism is a very low priority.
Shaddap....’Janet From Another Planet’....and eat your waffle.
> Something needs done to ensure stricter security overseas.
No visas for Mohammedans.
No visas for *ANY* Mohammedan “clerics” of any kind from any place.
No visas for people with any ties to Islamic fundamentalists. That *INCLUDES* politicos, like Chavez, Lula, Ortega, Morales, etc.
No visas for anybody who has bad-mouthed the United States. Don’t like us? Fine. Don’t come here. That *INCLUDES* politicos, like Chavez, Lula, Ortega, Morales, etc.
U.N. *OUT* of the U.S. *NOW*!
So is this UK/Nigerian islamist a terrorist or an overseas contingency operative?
That's complete BS and the lesbian bull dyke and her filthy marxist comrades need to be put on record on the profiling question.
That is the political debate that needs to happen, immediate institution of the same profiling techniques used by EL AL, for or against.
I have no doubt on what side the the question the marxists in charge of homeland security will come down.
Now THAT’s comedy.
1118+ more days of these fools.
Are we going to survive?
That's complete BS and the lesbian bull dyke and her filthy marxist comrades need to be put on record on the profiling question.
That is the political debate that needs to happen, immediate institution of the same profiling techniques used by EL AL, for or against.
I have no doubt on which side of the question the marxists in charge of homeland security will come down.
islamist in fact or by extension.
“fighting terrorism is a very low priority.”
Don’t you mean man caused disasters? /sarc
Yesterday, everything “worked perfectly”
What a difference a day makes.
That’s complete BS and the lesbian bull dyke and her filthy marxist comrades need to be put on record on the profiling question. That is the political debate that needs to happen, immediate institution of the same profiling techniques used by EL AL, for or against. I have no doubt on what side the the question the marxists in charge of homeland security will come down.
While the common folks in the USA are getting all excited about how the airport security system failed, Obama and his Marxist Thugs are busily studying how they use this terror attempt to further their marxist agenda.
So we need to be thinking like a Marxist to out fox the Obama Marxists.
Then why do you have to change the rules for all airline passengers, such as not allowing them to get out of their seats an hour before landing?
Any person who does not take America’s national security seriously has no busness being in charge. That goes for President Zero and Janet Napolitano.
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