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I just heard this on Fox. Napolitano saying she was surprised by the determination of Al Qaeda. As one commentator said. It's like she hasn't read a newspaper in a decade. THE u.s. IS IN SERIOUS DANGER WITH THIS BUNCH IN CONTROL.

37 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Janet Napolitano, the U.S. secretary for homeland security, said on Thursday she will travel to Spain this month to meet with her international counterparts to seek tougher international aviation security measures. She also told reporters during a briefing that the United States is scheduled to deploy 300 additional advanced imaging scanners at U.S. airports in 2010, and may deploy more.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs planned to bring two top security officials to his briefing Thursday, according to guidance distributed to reporters: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security John Brennan. Brennan has been charged with reviewing U.S. security and intelligence failures in advance of the attempted bombing of a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. His report is due at the White House Thursday.

The Homeland Security Department’s National Operations Center (NOC) is “unable” to do its job of ensuring coordination among the 22 federal agencies that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and focuses too much on disaster management rather than terrorism prevention, according to its own inspector general. The National Operations Center, in fact, functions largely in name only, and current operations apparently have diminished its ability to respond to terrorist threats. These assessments are presented in a redacted report from the DHS Office of Inspector General released in November and entitled “Information Sharing at the National Operations Center.”

The Russian government may be corrupt and repressive, but Vladimir Putin has stayed popular by embracing the country's tradition of the “good czar” whose intentions are pure and will set things right despite his ministers’ failings. President Obama appears to be following a similar strategy in the wake of the attempted Christmas bombing.

Laina Farhat-Holzman: What happens to poisonous ideologies over time? Santa Cruz Sentinel - ?Jan 2, 2010? During this same period, another ideology was born that inflames the world today: Islamo-Fascism or Islamism, a form of Islam that combines the ideologies ... NJ.com (blog)Where did people get the idea Bush was tough on Islamic fundamentalism? http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/opinion/ci_14109822 NJ.com (blog) - Paul Mulshine - ?Jan 1, 2010? Also denunciations of "Islamofascism" don't count either. That's just a buzzword created by Trotkyites to avoid confronting the issue of Islamic ... http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2009/12/where_did_people_get_the_idea.html  Prepare for more Britons to be kidnapped by Iran in 2010 Telegraph.co.uk (blog)...

More than a year after Arizona became the first state in the country to deploy dozens of speed cameras on highways statewide, threats to the groundbreaking program abound. Profits are far below expectations, a citizen effort to ban the cameras continues to gain steam, the governor has said she does not like the program, and more and more drivers getting tickets in the mail are ignoring them after hearing from fellow speeders that there are often no consequences to that choice. "I see all the cameras in Arizona completely coming down (in 2010)," said Shawn Dow, chairman of Arizona Citizens...

Charles Krauthammer’s article, Obama’s Hollow Words on Terrorism, brilliantly captures the Barry Hussein Soetoro administration’s dilemma of attempting to use words to create false perceptions in the American psyche. Words intended to be in complete opposition of the reality of terrorism in this case. (see article) What actually happened on Christmas day 2009 was a bombing was attempted that possibly could have killed 288 passengers and crewmembers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Only the Nigerian bomber’s incompetence prevented an al Qaeda backed terrorist tragedy—that is the reality. But according to the Soetoro administration’s Janet Napolitano, an incompetent bomber equals the...

CNSNews.com DHS Plans to Catch Only One in Four Travelers Committing ‘Major’ Criminal Violations While Entering U.S. on International Fights in 2010 Monday, January 04, 2010 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (CNSNews.com) - Documents produced by the Department of Homeland Security indicate that in fiscal 2010 the department is planning to catch only 26 percent of travelers committing major criminal violations while seeking to enter the United States through international airports. DHS documents also indicate that the department believes it will fail to screen against law enforcement databases 15 percent of travelers entering the United...

Uh-oh. From the Homeland Security system that “worked,” we now have word that Secretary Janet Napolitano is mobilizing a broad response to the underwear bomber. As part of this security “review,” Napolitano is dispatching her deputy, Jane Holl Lute, “on a broad international outreach effort” to review security procedures with “leaders from major international airports in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.” Who is Jane Holl Lute? Or, more precisely, what kind of hands-on experience is presumed to qualify Lute for the serious responsibility of serving as the #2 official at Homeland Security? Why, the United Nations,...

The Obama administration is consumed with categorizing everything it does as “historic” and “unprecedented”. Both are technically true: Obama’s policies are creating ruinations never before imaginable, and there certainly is no precedent for any of the administration’s unconstitutional power grabs. Obama has yet again accomplished what once would have seemed utterly impossible: making Norman Mineta seem conscious; but only by comparison to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, Janet Napolitano. Former Transportation Secretary, Norman Mineta was a holdover from the Clinton administration. President Bush had a terrifying inclination to pursue “bipartisanship” and kept some of the dregs from the Clinton...

Uh-oh.From the Homeland Security system that “worked,” we now have word that Secretary Janet Napolitano is mobilizing a broad response to the underwear bomber. As part of this security “review,” Napolitano is dispatching her deputy, Jane Holl Lute, “on a broad international outreach effort [1]” to review security procedures with “leaders from major international airports in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.”Who is Jane Holl Lute? Or, more precisely, what kind of hands-on experience is presumed to qualify Lute for the serious responsibility of serving as the #2 official at Homeland Security?Why, the United Nations, of course. Before joining the...

...the American people played a sick practical joke on themselves by electing a clown (more like the Joker as portrayed by the late Heath Ledger) who promptly staffed his Administration with a collection of equally unqualified freaks as shown below. Unless voters close this sideshow by removing the Democratic majority in the House and Senate, its admission price will consist of trillions of dollars in taxpayer money and economic damage to the United States. Janet Napolitano demonstrated her total unfitness to lead Homeland Security when she defined gun owners, pro-lifers, veterans of our Armed Forces, and people who oppose illegal...

WASHINGTON -- First it was delu sion. Now it is denial. Let's just hope the Obama administration works through this vexing 12-step program they're in before al Qaeda decides to launch another attack. Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano assured us that the "system worked" when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab nearly blew up an American jetliner on Christmas Day with a bomb smuggled in his loin. And just when you thought "Big Sis" had easily retired the award for Biggest Turkey in the Global War on Terror, up steps John Brennan.

On the Sunday talk shows, top officials and former officials from both parties expressed strong confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in the aftermath of Napolitano's statement that "the system worked" in the Detroit terrorist incident. Napolitano quickly backed down from her assertion, but the controversy over her remarks fueled questions about whether she is up to the task of running the Department of Homeland Security. Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, was asked if Napolitano is the right person for the job. "Yes, she is," Lieberman...

Before the Christmas Day terror attack on flight #253 into Detroit the new FY 2010 budget went into effect for Department of Homeland Security. While there was an increase in the overall budget, due to reallocation of funds within the Department some agencies actually experienced a budget cut in security measures.

The reason the country is uneasy is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York. Obama banishes the term "war on terror." Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately al-Qaeda has not. More jarring still were Obama's references to the terrorist as a "suspect" who "allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device." You can hear the echo of FDR: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- Japanese naval and air force suspects...

You can bet that getting finances in order is the top resolution for the State of Arizona. It will get an early test this month. A massive education payment is expected to drain state resources down to zero. What happens next will affect anyone who works for or with state government. It's what happens when you run out of money. You can't pay your bills. Arizona legislators have not been able to resolve the budget crisis, and our state could be weeks away from running out of money. That means having to issue IOU's to everyone. And it's not only...

"Big Sis" Janet Napolitano reassured nervous Americans not to worry -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 did not indicate a larger terrorist plot. In an effort to respectfully restrain from jumping to conclusions, the Homeland Security Secretary refused to confirm whether Abdulmutallab had a connection to al-Qaida. Less than twenty-four hours later, Napolitano reconsidered her statement, admitting that maybe Abdulmutallab "should not have been allowed on the airplane." Napolitano said, "What I would say is our system did not work in this instance [emphasis mine] -- no one is happy or satisfied with that."...

The Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. We are. On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh? But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions. Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed...

"It came as no surprise to anyone who knows her that Napolitano handled the incident and its aftermath with aplomb. In the years I have known her, she has managed every challenge that has come her way with the same calm command that she showed in this instance. If there is anyone in the administration who embodies President Obama's preference for quiet competence with "no drama," it is Janet Napolitano."

1:52 PM CST, January 1, 2010 ST. LOUIS (AP) — A United Airlines Express flight returned to St. Louis as a precaution because of an unspecified "security concern." United Airlines spokeswoman Megan McCarthy says there were no incidents during the flight, and it redeparted at 9:30 a.m. Friday after the issue was resolved. She says Flight 7445 was headed from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to Chicago's O'Hare Airport when it was called back by the airline around 8 a.m. McCarthy provided no details about the security issue and referred questions to Go-Jet, the regional carrier that operated the flight. But...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Thank God for wardrobe malfunctions. On Dec. 22, 2001, Richard Reid failed in an attempt to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 using 50 grams of the explosive PETN and became known as "the shoe-bomber." Since then, we have all had to remove our footwear prior to boarding commercial aircraft bound for U.S. airports. On Christmas Day eight years later, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, wearing a bomb made from 80 grams of the same explosive, attempted to bring down Northwest Flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit. Had this 23-year-old Nigerian-born, Yemini-trained al-Qaida terrorist succeeded, he might...

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Washington Post columnist David Broder writes a love note to Janet Napolitano Most Americans got their first prolonged look at Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, last weekend. After a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam ignited a concealed fuse as the plane approached Detroit for a landing, apparently intending to blow it up and kill all aboard, it fell to Napolitano to take charge of the federal response. It came as no surprise to anyone who knows her that Napolitano handled the incident and its aftermath with aplomb. In the years I have known her, she...

The outrage continues to build over a report from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's department that warned of the danger of right-wing "extremists," and she raised eyebrows again this week when she suggested that the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the United States through Canada. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is under fire for what critics see as a string of gaffes, with a small but vocal group of conservatives calling for her to step down. The outrage continues to build over a report from her department that warned of the danger of right-wing "extremists," and singled out returning war veterans...

Why politics shouldn't trump terror. Washington Examiner calls for her resignation

Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: "The system worked." The attacker's concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son's jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers. Heck of a job, Brownie. The reason the country is uneasy about the...

Democrats Join Calls for Napolitano to Step Down Following Failed Attack Democrats have joined the ranks of those calling for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to step down following the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight a week ago. Some Democrats have joined in calling for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to step down following the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight a week ago. Though the CIA and an agency under the Director of National Intelligence have been under particular scrutiny in the preliminary review of possible missteps, Napolitano so far has taken the most heat from...

Janet Napolitano -- former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security -- will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: "The system worked." The attacker's concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son's jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers. Heck of a job, Brownie.

Heads are set to roll in the U.S. intelligence community as an angry Barack Obama fends off criticism over the attempted bombing of a passenger plane on Christmas Day. Publicly the White House is standing by the top spymaster in the U.S., intelligence chief Admiral Dennis Blair. The four-star admiral, who is responsible for coordinating intelligence gathering between 16 agencies, has the full confidence of the president, aides are insisting. But speculation was rife that Blair or Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano could be forced to resign after Mr Obama said on Tuesday there had been a systemic failure by...

One has to marvel at the opening graph of this Politico story: Growing evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a commercial airliner as it landed in Detroit Friday spent time in Yemen and may have been fitted with customized, explosive-laden clothing there could complicate the U.S. government’s efforts to send home more than 80 Yemeni prisoners currently at Guantanamo Bay. Yes, reality is complicating the Obama administration’s war on terror policies. It must be maddening to the Obami that they are presented once again with inconvenient evidence that their insistence on emptying Guantanamo of dangerous...

Appearing on Laura Ingraham’s radio show earlier this month, NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd surprised the popular host by saying he believes President Obama could very well nominate Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for the Supreme Court next time a vacancy comes up. I know what you’re thinking. “That has to be a joke, right?” Sadly, I’m afraid it is not: TODD: And not a negative. On a – at the next Supreme Court opening, I betcha she gets the call… INGRAHAM (amazed): Why? TODD: Personally, he likes her probably more than any other cabinet secretary outside of [Robert]...

Neapolitan is an Italian ice-cream with three flavors: chocolate, vanilla and strawberry; Janet Napolitano is the Italian-American US Homeland Security Secretary with three flavors: “the system worked,” “the system failed miserably” and another more subtle, nuanced flavor “the rules have been in place since 2006″,” i.e., “it’s Bush’s fault.” After the Nigerian “Knicker Bomber” terrorist tried to blow up a plane en route to Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day, Napolitano gave us all three flavors in rapidfire succession within a few days. Shortly thereafter, law-abiding citizens were instructed to fly with their hands on their knees and nothing in...

Terrorist Abdulmutallab (the 20-something who tried to make a murderous statement against Christians with his Christmas Day blow-up attempt on the flight to Detroit) is, apparently, a "lonely" and "depressed" young man. That is only if you believe internet postings Terrorist Who Tried to Blow Up Plane in Detroit May Actually Be Just a Bit Lonely and Friendless supposedly written by the terrorist himself, spanning a timeframe of 2005 to 2007. Awwww, maybe now, the liberals and Democrats will have sympathy for him and decide he has to be treated for "depression" as opposed to being incarcerated and executed as...

U.S. intelligence chief Dennis C. Blair faced tough questions about his future Wednesday as the Obama administration fended off criticism over the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. Publicly, the White House was standing by Mr. Blair, the United States' top spymaster, who is responsible for coordinating intelligence gathering among 16 agencies, saying the four-star admiral had the full confidence of the president. "This is not about one person or one agency," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. Also Wednesday, it was revealed that a similar effort, starting in Somalia, to down a jetliner was thwarted...

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The pilots’ union at American Airlines said Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration didn’t warn flight crews appropriately during the terrorist attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas, Dow Jones reports. The union, the Allied Pilots Association, wrote to American Airlines that “some pilots were left out of the loop” when TSA told some airlines to notify only pilots on inbound transatlantic flights, Dow Jones said. “The TSA should have mandated that information about this security event be passed on to all airborne flights,” the APA wrote. The letter seems contradict Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comments that the...

Department of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napoli-tano, the former Arizona governor, is backpedaling after being blistered for her "the system worked" comment after a man carrying explosives boarded a Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. But her revised words aren't silencing her critics. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, got on the flight despite being on a general terror watch list. His own father had warned the U.S. that he suspected his son had been radicalized. He bought a one-way ticket and checked no luggage — a combination that experts say should be a red flag. Here's a deeper look at...

PHOENIX — Sen. Jon Kyl said he doesn't "feel totally safe'' with Janet Napolitano at the helm of the Department of Homeland Security, given that agency's handling of the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner. At a press conference Tuesday, Kyl and fellow Sen. John McCain, both Republicans, detailed what they said was a breakdown of security that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab not only to board the plane but to be carrying explosives. Kyl said it was bad enough that the Nigerian got on the plane in the first place given what should have been warning signals. But in...

Imagine walking down the street to the corner store for a newspaper and being stopped by policeman. He demands to see an official government-issued photo ID. You don't have it with you. The policeman tells you you're subject to a fine, and takes you into custody until authorities can ascertain your identity. Is this a totalitarian nightmare of East Germany or the Soviet Union? No, this is everyday life in dozens of countries that have issued citizens national ID cards that must be carried at all times. Failing to present the card upon demand is an offense in many of...

Obama seems to care more about his golf game than he does about keeping Americans safe!Let's set the table. First, a reminder of what Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (dubbed "Janet Incompetano" by Mark Steyn) said in a March interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel titled "Away from the Politics of Fear": SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?Napolitano: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In...

Resign, fired, or congratulated?

CHUCK TODD{NBC WH correspondent}: The other one I would bet on is Janet Napolitano – INGRAHAM (with sarcasm): She’s been effective. TODD: And not a negative. On a – at the next Supreme Court opening, I betcha she gets the call. INGRAHAM: (Pause, then a low voice) Oh wait a sec. I just lost my breath. What did you say? TODD: Sorry. I know. Sorry. I’m just sayin’ -- INGRAHAM: Janet Napolitano? TODD: You asked me to bet. You asked me to bet. I would say this. She’ll get the next opening. INGRAHAM (amazed): Why? TODD : Personally, he likes...

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had announced his sympathy for jihadi terrorism. Yet so crippled by political correctness is today's America that no one blew the whistle. Instead, he was sent to Fort Hood, where he opened fire on Nov. 5, killing 13 and wounding 31. Almost two months later, the current administration still can't bring itself to identify Hasan as an Islamic terrorist. They can't even decide to allow soldiers to carry self-defense arms on U.S. military bases. Next -- even as the uniformed goons known as the Thousands Standing Around were pointlessly strip-searching little old ladies in every airport...

Yesterday, I maligned President Obama. I cast an aspersion that should have remained un-cast. I hurled an insult that should have been left un-hurled. Yes, I was wrong. But I want everybody to know that I am man enough to admit it. After he gave his speech saying, “We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable,” I incorrectly said that he and Michelle then went to “grab a bite to eat.” He actually went snorkeling. Word has it that there also may have been a stroll through the links. Priorities! I know what...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano backtracked Monday on earlier comments the U.S. air safety system "worked." Napolitano, appearing Monday on NBC's "Today Show," explained comments she made Sunday regarding an incident in which a Nigerian man allegedly ignited an incendiary device aboard a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day were "taken out of context." During a Sunday appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Napolitano said "What we are focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. And one thing I'd like to point out...

Since the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack on Flight 253, there has been much discussion of the Obama administration's reaction and what signals it's sending. The original tactic of releasing statements from various spokespeople was supposed to minimize the affect the attempt had on the country. Supposedly if the president didn't speak of it directly, then it didn't hurt/scare/concern the American people. Take two had Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano assuring the world that the system worked. Take three had her then backpedaling a day later to admit that the system did not work. Next came President Obama changing course...