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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“So we need to be thinking like a Marxist to out fox the Obama Marxists.
You mean like wondering if the “Rahm strategy” of never letting a crisis go to waste is going to be implemented when a terrorist attack happens around election time
and is used to suspend the Constitution and implement marshall law??
That would be one example, but I am certain there are other ideas being floated by Obama’s Marxists on how to benefit from this incident.
She obviously got enough flak to try to "clarify" her infantile, brainless comment yesterday.
Too late, Janet. The whole world now knows you're a fool.
Unfortunately that includes the terrorists.
The correction on page 43B -- where no one sees it.
A few years ago, my late mother-in-law, due to failing health, had to sell her house in Florida and move back north. My wife accompanied her on the flight; her mom was carrying all of her significant jewelry collection with her, rather than trusting the moving company with it. In Miami, the cretins at the security checkpoint made her open up her bag of valuables, and they oohed and ahhed over every single piece. It should have been pretty obvious that an eighty-something woman wasn't a tremendous security threat, but they were having their bit of fun. My wife said that she was afraid that there were now dozens of people in the area who had learned that this old woman was carrying tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry. Both my wife and her mother were terrified that they might be robbed in Miami, or in Newark. All this in the name of security.
Sounds like they have hired a bunch of pervs. Need to pat down women carefully.
So my question to the Arizona voters . . . . (do I really need to)
Note that she didn't mention that the "president" of the United States wasn't notified for three hours.
Is that part of her "system working," I wonder??
DHS originally had a bunch of competent people running key position inside the agency. I know I worked with them, but over time they replaced virtually all of them with lawyers and the technical “hands on” people finally left or just receeded into the woodwork.
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.”
The nerve... A PASSENGER saved the plane!
“He paid cash for his one way ticket. No carry on luggage. He would have made a drug smuggling list 25 years ago. Now, he doesn’t get noticed.”
What would you expect from a woman who was appointed to her position because of her sexual preference? Obama chose her as a sop to the diversity mindset.
I saw her on Fox this morning...as well as yesterday.
I like to fall out of my chair when she declared that the “system worked.”
The Fox people reamed her a new one where the sun don’t shine. Which she rightfully deserved. Imagine saying that such a major failure was an example of the system working.
She must think we were all born at night...LAST NIGHT.
This morning, as she was getting a new behind handed to her that not one other media outlet would dare...she finally muttered...”no secretary would say that the failures of this past Christmas are a success of any kind.”
Well Janet...ya think?
I wonder who gave her that talking point. Cause this woman is the dumbest of the dumb. I predict a move to fire this woman.
Let’s not forget last year when she got all on TV declaring tea party attendees to be instruments of brutal militia groups returning for wars filled with bloodlust.
Somebody’s pulling this woman’s silly strings and she’s too stupid to tell them NO.
Probably Rahm or Axelrod.
Maybe the President of the United States didn’t want his coloring book time interrupted.
And remember: This is ALL on OBAMA, here. Homeland Security is run from the White House.
Interesting her use of the term “criminal investigation” which matches the Uhbamuh stance on how terrorism should be treated as just a criminal act rather than an act of war.
If he was able to light the device, then this was a massive failure. The only thing that saved the lives of those people was incompetence on the part of the terrorists. For Napolitano's part it was just dumb luck.
“The system worked”~J.Napolitano
“Security failed”~J.Napolitano
Napolitano: “Eeny, meeny, miny,...this is the way we let Mo go.”
I think that you may be right about picking on older white women. They love to go for the make-up that they think old white women might carry in their purse or carry on.
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