Insanity at the Department of Homeland (In)Security

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.”

So, someone smuggles a bomb onto an aircraft heading to the United States, and you want to claim 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.”

Ah! So, that’s how the system works! You ask questions after the next catastrophe!

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

So, the system “worked” because the failure came after a “proper screening”? Yeah. Right!
The Alice in Wonderland approach to national security is not working out so well. Amateur hour continues apace at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
H/T Sweetness and Light
Cross Posted at Proof Positive

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  • http://Array sayanything-43

    The system isn’t supposed to make us safer. It’s supposed to make us feel safer. Clearly admitting that the system isn’t make us safer would mean it’s failing in the main point.

    On the other hand parroting Chip Diller is exactly the system.

  • sayanything-106

    The NOBAMA stooges are trying to take credit for a disaster and we are very lucky that we didn’t have a disaster over detroit. The device was missed in flight and now we are going to have to demand that people screen their passengers better before they board a flight and head to the USA.

  • sayanything-1321

    ghHorse,

    If what you say is true. Conservatism is the epitomy of Alzheimer’s.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Lyin’ court: Do you share the madness of Napolitano? Do you believe that the “system worked”?

  • sayanything-342

    Civilian deaths in Iraq in January 2007: 2,807.

    In March 2008: 1,540.

    In November 2009: 205.

    Decline in civilian deaths per year, from 2006 to 2009: 84%.

    U doucebag dino, Iraq was not a paradise under Sadam either.

  • RC41

    Looks like the World Apology Tour is really paying off via increased security standards in Europe…. not.

    I have been through Schipol security. Not impressed, not surprised this happened. I will say their female TSA agents are alot better looking than ours though. I wondered if they got drafted from the Red Light District

  • sayanything-3960

    Your disappointment that nobody is showing Proof.

  • sayanything-106

    Janet Napolitano is a horrible choice for Secretary of DHS. Her responses are unacceptable. The American public should demand her resignation. Also, the Screening process did fail if someone got on board with an explosive device. EPIC fail…

  • sayanything-1321

    Once again the traveling public is being inconvenienced because of the complacency and incompetence of government officials charged with protecting us. If the bomber’s father reported him to the American embassey, the embassey should have notified the appropriate intelligence agency. But who is the “appropriate” agency. We have so many intelligence agencies, it becomes confusing. However, some agency was aware of the bomber. But in typical American fashion, some overpaid stuffed shirt did not consider him to be a threat. Put him on a terrorist or no-fly list. That is a complete waste of time. There are over 400,000 names. Seems like looking for a needle in a haystack, to me. No, this man should have been put under surveillance. Had that been done what happened on Xmas day could have be avoided. It is time we fired these incompetent workers on government time. Then replace them with people who pay attention and have an abundance of common sense.

  • j.l.

    The U.S.S.Cole was payback for damage in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan? How so?

  • sayanything-342

    Apparently citizens of foreign nations who tackle terrorists in the act of blowing up an American flight are now part of the Obama Security System. Democrats will soon take credit for all farts when it is discovered to stop global cooling.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    I don’t think she’ll get canned over this, Randy. That would take someone with a spine in the oval office, and unless Santa brought one Friday, there’s none to be found there. Plus, Obama has declared that we’re not fighting a “war of terror”, so why would he hold someone accountable for not fighting one?

  • sayanything-287

    Why was he ever allowed to fly? Syringe bomber had been barred from Britain, was on a terror list and even his father had warned U.S.

    Four weeks ago Abdulmutallab’s father told the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, that he was concerned about his son’s religious beliefs. This information was passed on to U.S. intelligence officials.

    A preliminary FBI analysis found that it contained a high explosive known as PETN or pentaerythritol.

    FBI agents were also said recovered what appeared to be the remnants of the syringe found near Abdulmutallab’s seat, which is believed to have been part of the device.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238574/Aircraft-passengers-face-heightened-security-measures-emerges-London-educated-syringe-bomber-Flight-253-exploited-loophole.html#ixzz0aum7UaTs

    Thank God for Homeland Security!

  • RC41

    Hey Dino, we’ll donate some frequent flyer miles to you to be on one of those flights. Its our gift to you the Christmas season. Maybe you can even warm the terrorists up so they are good and ready for all the countless virgins they will get to deflower

  • ghHorse

    Liberalism is a mental disease.

  • sayanything-4585

    In Britian they are crediting BHO for stopping this attack…WTF?…as Randy-G said “We are surrounded by insanity.”
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wealthy-quiet-unassuming-the-christmas-day-bomb-suspect-1851090.html
    “Al-Qa’ida is finding it difficult to recruit young people,” she said. “And, interestingly, the election of Barack Obama is a factor in that, because, whatever you think of him as a president, the fact of him shows young people that there is an alternative to killing yourself. Al-Qa’ida is, however, targeting more highly skilled people.”

  • sayanything-6955

    I thought that was a foot?

  • sayanything-4253

    No he didn’t.

  • sayanything-4416

    Too bad the civilian death was our fault.

    Americans weeped and cried over the arguable loss of 3000 greedy republican bond traders yet are callous to the death of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians they caused.

    Payback will be ugly.

  • sayanything-316

    These people, Obamanation, et al, are not just criminally incompetent, they are saboteurs, doing everything they can to destroy America and her Constitution from above and within.

    How much do we have to take before the population wakes up to this basic truth?

    BTW — good to see something from S&L. They have good content and cull any trolls which happen to saunter in.

    Something SAB is long overdue for.

  • sayanything-6955

    We are surrounded by insanity.

  • MarkSD

    The system worked? The only reason all the passengers and crew and people on the ground are not dead or injured is because of the passengers and crew!

    I saw this woman on tv this morning, I could only watch for 2 minutes before I grabbed the remote.

    What a fool!@!!!!!!!!

  • spartacus

    How much common sense do you possess, Ms. Napolitano?

    No Proof, she was asked to indicate what she thinks is six inches….Ba Da Bing

  • sayanything-2483

    Actually, she was showing us the size of hers.

  • sayanything-221

    It goes without saying that Obama has appointed many zeros and clowns to his cabinet and White House staff.
    Napolitano heads the list and deserves special recognition for the fact that her actions and decisions could get us all killed.
    Her major accomplish since her appointment has been declaring that “The War on Terror” does not exist anymore. If we just show the muzzie’s love and place them high on the PC list, things will be OK.
    Never knew that much about her before she showed up in Washington. How in the hell did she get elected governor of Arizona. Thought those people would not elect a “liberal wimp” as governor.

  • sayanything-4416

    No, she was showing us the size of the biggest conservative peepee.

  • sayanything-4416

    Expect more of these attacks as payback for all the damage we did and are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the entire Middle East.

    Do you people really think we can send our fancy, high-tech killing machines to terrorize other countries and they’re going to keep taking it?

    Didn’t you see Avatar? LOL

    Payback is a bitch. I just hope the recipients are the people who supported and masterminded America’s rampage of aggression. I think you know who I’m talking about.

  • sayanything-32073

    Isreal has never had a plane hi-jacked or bombed. Why? They use thorough background checks and don’t let terrorists, terrorist sympathizers, or other nut cases on their planes. Common sense but far from common in this country.

  • sayanything-6955

    I agree Goon, I think she will get canned over this!

  • sayanything-101

    Why are there dysfunctional matrons in the positions of Secretary of homeland security and Secretary of State?

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