Napolitano clueless as to what her job is
Janet Napolitano has a job to do. it is right there in the name of the Franken-bureaucracy she runs, Department of Homeland Security. That names her mission and her focus. To hear a quote as stunningly dense as this one shows she hasn’t got a freakin’ clue.
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.”
The system worked? Are you shitting me? The system failed completely, you failed completely and so did every other agency involved in anti-terrorism. This bastard was on the radar screen as a jihadi and he just waltzes onto a plane wearing PETN panties. That is a dismal failure of the system Janet and the only reason we didn’t have a jumbo jet auger into the ground in Detroit is because our al Qaeda buddies in Yemen are failures as well. their detonator didn’t work, so their bomber just got his nuts fried off. But they at least get half marks for effective terrorizing. You get an F and continue to get F’s for your BS responses to this.
Passengers getting off both U.S. domestic flights and those arriving from overseas reported being told that they couldn’t get out of their seat for the last hour of their flight. Air Canada also said that during the last hour passengers won’t be allowed access to carry-on baggage or to have any items on their laps.
The answer is not to jerk around the other passengers, it’s to make sure that jihadis don’t get on the freakin plane. If that means Yemenis and Saudis and Nigerians and Pakistanis get a 10 year background check before they get near a plane, so be it. But it sure should mean that the ones we know about don’t get to board. Fail Janet, epic style.
Tags: DHS, napolitano, nigeria, terrorism
Uh, Jim, maybe her system DID work.
If the new hopey-changey system is to allow Muslim terrorists onto our planes with explosive underwear, then that new system worked brilliantly.
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Clueless morons. Homeland Security is an oxymoron and Janet is the head moron.
You are so right…and what’s with the ‘one hour’ before landing crap–so, what’s magical about the last hour? The jihadist nut jobs could as easily detonate mid air or at take off or whenever–if things were working correctly, this guy would never have boarded a plane because he never would have gotten a VISA to come to our country.
Time for some old fashioned profiling.
Janet Napolitano couldn’t find her ass with a map and a compass, much less deal effectively with Homeland Security, unless of course, you’re talking about veterans and conservatives in which case she’s all over it. I’m still mystified as to how this yahoo was on a suspected terrorist list yet NOT on a no-fly list. And to top it all off, his father WARNS officials that junior wasn’t quite right…you’d think that would get someone’s attention…evidently not.
This dude paid for his ticket in cash and is flying across the Atlantic freakin Ocean with no baggage. Say what you will about racial profiling, stereotyping, or whatever but this was an instance where Rain Man could have nailed this guy.
He had booked his ticket for Detroit, a city with a very large
Muslim community. I assume the Detroit thing was in case things didn’t go boom as planned and he could get off the plane to visit with his homies.
It’s not hard to figure out who the bad guys are, we just need to have the balls to go after them.
Janet lost all credibility when she labeled returning service men and women as potential right wing extremists ripe for recruitment.
You nailed it again J. What can I say…
http://aroundotown.blogspot.com/2009/12/uncle-jimbo-nails-itagain.html
They’re hoping the terrorists make something go boom and kill enough people for Obama to declare Emergency Rule.
This flight goes right over my house. I am fried to no end, but can’t bitch publicly, because we are living right around the area of the biggest middle eastern population, outside of the middle east. Heaven forbid we might offend somebody while cousin Achmed is trying to set fire to his pants to blow up a plane. Even worse! They take this schmucko to the burn unit in Ann Arbor, one of the best in the nation. Oh yeah.. it’s on our nickel too.
Napolitano could be the poster child for political appointee – a low IQ clueless PC addict whose only qualification for a Cabinet level post was that she be knowin’ somebody.
Well … look at the bright side. At least she hasn’t killed a bunch of kids like Janet Reno did.
What do we expect. We have an administration of community organizers. None of them have lived in the real world. These people were picked not for their expertise but for their ability to roll over and say “may I have another sir”. Even The Joker is told not to deviate from the script.
This administration has balls the size of peas and the IQ of your local union hall neanderthals.
Okay, so maybe I ain’t the sharpest crayon in the box, so somebody answer a question for me… how in the fuck do you travel halfway across the world on a one-way ticket, with no luggage? Now I am known to travel light (usually by motorcycle), but I cannot imagine suspicions NOT being raised by a middle eastern dude getting on a plane for the United States without any luggage. Obama and his sleazy, inexperienced, unqualified, socialist shitheads are going to get a lot more US citizens killed before too long.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition….
The ‘last hour’ thing is amazing to me. The concept of the 9/11 hijackings was that they took the plane early in the flight, while they were still full of fuel. That’s why they were explosive enough to take down the WTC.
WTF!!! No, really WTF!! Thank you Janet, surely where you have FAILED, Eric Holder will not. Good God, I really am wondering if these MORONS may very well be in bed with those who would do us harm. I mean of course their in bed with them, but I think they may very well be gettin it on too! I am disgusted with this crap. We cant stop these dirtbags from getting on a plane with PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate)
when both airports this pice of crap went through had the screening equipment to detect the substance. My only solace is the fact that He burned the tar out of his junk while trying to get his 72 goats or virgins, or whatever, and that seems to me a fitting irony.
I think Janet gets a B+ for “the system working”
I think this Terrorist gets a A+ for peeing his pants before the shit went boom.
OldSoldier54 says:
Well … look at the bright side. At least she hasn’t killed a bunch of kids like Janet Reno did.
Gun Shy says:
Give her time OS, because the night is so young. (she is at the front end of her career)
Let’s take a look at what she has done thus far, shall we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJlhAbj63hk
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/09/24/the-arizona-911-memorial-disgrace/
Oh…and let’s not forget this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HH0SBZxC9M
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Well … look at the bright side. At least she hasn’t killed a bunch of kids like Janet Reno did.
Don’t worry. They’re working at it.
The last hour is the least dangerous hour of the flight . Fuel’s burned off, aircraft is light, speed’s way down. Most importantly, a mid-flight explosion at high altitude will cause rapid cabin decompression, and in many cases, the structural collapse of the aircraft. Below 10,000 feet the air pressure in the cabin is the same as the air outside. Punch a hole in the aircraft and it’s a little scary (and windy) but the plane does just fine.
The “last hour” stuff is just more ignorant, knee-jerk nonsense. People are being terribly inconvenienced for absolutely no benefit.
Yes. UFB. The idiots are running this Country into the friggin’ ground. Are we the only ones paying attention, or are we just “paying?”
Now someone has told her that she had to admit the system failed miserably. Like I said she doesn;t know what her job is and she needs to go.
Cordially,
Uncle J