Posted on 12/26/2010 3:40:55 PM PST by moonshinner_09
(The Washington Times) — The United States is safer now than it was in 2009, though terrorists continue to make attempts on domestic targets, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday.
“Everything is objectively better than it was two years ago, particularly in the aviation environment,” Ms. Napolitano said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” one year after a Nigerian man attempted to blow up a Detriot-bound plane on Christmas Day
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The pace and number of attempted terror attacks against the U.S. over the past nine months has surpassed the number of attempts during any previous one-year period, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security report issued on Friday, May 21. The report notes chillingly that while US officials "lack insights" they believe that "operatives are in the country and could advance plotting with little or no warning."
The DHS "Intelligence Note," a short, non-classified report, makes concrete the concerns of a number of homeland security experts who have discussed with ABC News the pace and nature of the individual attempts. The report notes that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Pakistani Taliban have "expanded their focus" to include the United States.
Homeland Security and law enforcement officials interviewed by ABC News on the condition their names not be used are concerned that the pace will continue to ramp up and that increasingly the attackers will be difficult-to-detect homegrown extremists.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/terror-attacks-us-time-high/story?id=10748953
Secretary Janet Napolitano should be fired at once.
She’s sniffing/snorting/smoking/drinking something.
No thanks to her.
Thankfully these clowns are so incompetent... that’s slowing down the dismantling of all our defenses.
I - CALL - BS - !
The U.S. government may be safer, personal freedom isn't however.
Janet, you are indeed an ignorant slut.
What a laugh.
The US has experienced more attempted attacks on our homeland ever and many of them were foiled by sheer luck.
The DHS is a joke and headed by a court jester or the village idiot, take your pick.
By treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue rather than a national security issue, it is only a matter if time before the shit hits the fan and an attack is successful.
We have to be right one hundred per cent of the time; they only have to get it right once and the way this administration is handling the terror threat, that becomes more of distinct possibility with every passing day.
Just look at what happened with the trial in NYC as an example.
Obama and his administration does not care about the safety and security of this nation otherwise they would make a greater effort to seal the border and wage a more offensive war rather than a defensive posture in the war on terror.
In a sane and just world this idiotic Tub O’ Lard would be in Bellevuw undergoing observation for her obvious mental deficiency.
Janet doesn’t need to smoke anything, she is just naturally demented and evil.
BS
Safe for who?
Napolitano’s fat butt?
one has to understand how these people ‘think’.
compare this current statement with the statement just after the ‘underwear bomber’ failed. “the system worked”
so, what was being said? the underwear bomber wasn’t successful, therefore the system worked.
no acknowledgement whatsoever that the underwear bomber wasn’t successful because he was incompetent.
correctly identified, that’s called luck.
this administration relies...RELIES...on luck and calls it a working system.
vegas shows that ‘luck’ is the result of executing thoughtful plans. people ask “how can one win at the slots?” the answer is reliable and absolute. own them. you’ll win every time.
“Comrades!” cried an eager voice.
“Attention, comrades! We have glorious news for you. Thanks to Big 0, we are 59% safer this year than last, although we were perfectly safe last year as well!
“All over the North American Union this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when documented and undocumented workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Big 0 for the new, happy and safe life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us!”
Well the good news is with the new congress in town they can drag her gay butt to testify on just ‘how safe’ we are.
Clearly they are more lucky than good.
“Secretary Janet Napolitano should be fired at once”.
No question about that mate.
Hey Janet....JANET!!!! Yes YOU, Janet, You are the one in charge of Homeland Security right???
So, did the YouTube video of the lax security loophole’s that a pilot had to risk his job over to bring to your attention, give you any clues as to HOW the cleaning crew got the KNIFE aboard the Delta flight recently?
Are you investigating that?
Probably not, your to busy sending agents out to harass the pilot.
Frikkin idiots.
Came here looking for this. Leaving satisfied another patriot posted if before me.
I’ll have what she’s drinking, Barkeep!
Pretty soon, America will be the safest it’s been since 1776.
Incompetano, Geithner, Holder—the first three that have to be shown the door.
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