Napolitano: "The system worked"

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[Sub-Driver]

Napolitano: "The system worked"

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that "the system worked."

Asked by CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union" how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: "We're asking the same questions."

Napolitano added that there was "no suggestion that [the bomber] was improperly screened."

[DownInFlames]

I can see the conversation now between Nap and BO - “BO, we did everything you asked to give the terrorists every break to do their job, but those pesky militia keep getting in g the way!”.

[cartoonistx]

The “knives-with-blades-smaller-than-three-inches-are-OK-because-who-could-use-one-of-them-to-hijack-an-airliner” system worked well about 8 years ago too!

[Red in Blue PA]

What are you going to believe? Napolitano or your own lying eyes? (and common sense)

[FR_addict]

The passengers and crew were also very lucky it didn’t explode before the Dutch man was able to get to the terrorist. He most likely stopped the terrorist from trying to detonate it again, but the passengers were also very lucky or God decided it wasn’t their time.

Maybe that’s the system, let the terrorists get a bomb on the plane, but then rely on the incompetence of the terrorists to detonate the bomb.

[New Yawk Minute]

Heheheh I thought I missed something on SNL.

I want what shes smokin’!

[Jeff Head]

The teorrist screwed up...thank God...and some passnegers then jumped him and held him.

That had nothing to do woth DHS, or Napolitano's "system."

She's living in and talking about a fairy tale in an effort to make herself look good somehow in this...but it doesn't wash, either for her or this admin.

SIX CRITICAL REASONS TO NOT TRY TERRORISTS IN US COURT

SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME IN AMERICA - WE IGNORE IT AT OUR PERIL

Note: This one was not an act of SJS. It was an honest to goodness, planned on foreign shore, terror attack. But we have plenty of the other going around attempting to be played down by the likes of this admin.

[depressed in 06]

WTF?

Defining "the system worked" to be the bomb didn't go off.

He got on a plane with explosives. He should have detonated it over the Atlantic, where it would have taken years to figure out what happened, but, al Qaeda would have known immediately they had success.

[Calamari]

Inept

[FR_addict]

“Is my underwear next?”

Where your good underwear.

[ShandaLear]

Liberalism leads to pathological lying, that much is obvious.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

The incompetence of Barack Hussein Obama and his Black Muslim Presidency:

1. Obama’s FBI did not alert the ARMY that Maj Nidal Hassan was a Muslim Extremist.

2. Obama’s State Dept did nothing to revoke Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab’s VISA after Abdul’s father told the US Embassy that his son was a MUSLIM Extremist.

Now this same incompetent Black Muslim Presidency want to manage our HEALTHCARE!!!!!!!!!!!

[azishot]

I'm speechless..........

So am I. There's no telling what stupidity will come out of her mouth. I remember being SO happy to NOT have her as our governor. That happiness was short lived because I knew how utterly AWFUL she would be for the COUNTRY!!

Sometimes I really hate to be proven right.

[2001convSVT]

If the system worked, then how did the bomber get the stuff on the plane? How did it work? If the explosives would have ignited how many dead would there have been? It Work?

I guess there will have to be strip and body cavity searches before boarding plane now!

[Shannon]

Janet Napolitano = Bhagdad Bob

That is so true. Unless when she says "the system worked" she considers having passengers overtake a terrorist in the act is part of "the system". I wonder how many passengers have been told that they're now part of her system. This is so insane.

Yup, Janet 'Bhagdad Bob' Napolitano is her earned name.

[Starboard]

If she means the “system” that puts political correctness above our national security, then she’s probably right.

[B.O. Plenty]

Me too....

.....thank heaven that Barry Zer0 is on the job...

...I feel fuzzy and warm all over....

[truthandlife]

If I were the Republicans, I would be making sure I have this soundbite ready to go during the 2010 elections.

Campaign commercial here we come. These people are absolutely delusional.

[timetostand]

I swear these people WANT something to happen!!

[Red in Blue PA]

[grayeagle]

Now you can see what Az has had to put up with with her as Governor: now the world can see. I can’t believe she kept getting re-elected.

But then look who got elected President.