Napolitano Changes Talking Points on “The System” Working

“Once the incident occurred, the system worked.”
Most of the time when the incident occurs it is too late. We got lucky this time because of some quick thinking passengers.
We must be vigilant and remember that we have to be right every time, the terrorists only have to right once!

The system worked because said terrorist had a faulty detonator and didn’t blow a hole in the plane as it was landing. Nice. In other words, passengers you’re on your own.

Why is this person net being interrogated by the CIA to gather as much fresh data on his contacts, travels, etc?
Many of you will read this as “why is he not being tortured” and that is not what I am saying. He is an enemy combatant and needs to be treated as such…not as a criminal who can hide behind our very own legal system.

I sure don’t feel very safe under this administration. Why should innocent people pay the price for their ignorance?

I sure don’t feel very safe under this administration
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Did you feel safer under the previous administration when they were commonly jacking up and announcing the code warnings to Orange or Red? Seemed to me they were trying to scare everybody.

Fire Janet Incompetano!

This was the same explosive Tom Ridge saw used in the December 2001 attack by the infamous ‘shoe bomber’. Ridge had years to put safeguards in place to ensure this type of explosive couldn’t be carried onto planes – he obviously failed didn’t he?
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The next step will have to be detection of this sort of explosive material.

Posted by: tierra | Dec 28, 2009 3:39:05 PM
Does OFA provide healthcare benefits?

Sounds like she told Jake “AFTER THE INCIDENT” and today that the SCREENING process did not work. But that would not make for a great blog post, so Jake just ignores that context. Nice. Ah.

Seemed to me they were trying to scare everybody.
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People should be scared when people are trying to blow up planes. Our nations security should be our first priority.
This is not Tom Ridges mistake. This happened during this administration.
You know, the administration that posted security screening procedures online.

Did you feel safer under the previous administration when they were commonly jacking up and announcing the code warnings to Orange or Red? Seemed to me they were trying to scare everybody.
Posted by: tierra | Dec 28, 2009 3:39:05 PM
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Yes, as a matter of fact I did feel more safe under the previous administration. I also had more money and better job security. Thanks for asking.

Well so far I have heard the HS Chief cal this act of terror “the incident” and “this instance.” That’s reassuring…

This was the same explosive Tom Ridge saw used in the December 2001 attack by the infamous ‘shoe bomber’. Ridge had years to put safeguards in place to ensure this type of explosive couldn’t be carried onto planes – he obviously failed didn’t he?
Posted by: tierra | Dec 28, 2009 3:57:36 PM
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Is this your talking point orders for today also??? How many blogs have you cut and pasted this on?
Once again I will ask, how do you know Janet Napolitano did not rescind any order Ridge may have had in place? Does it not concern you in the least that she thought the system is working? And please don’t answer with some ignorant reponse about Bush. That ship has sailed. Move on.

“Did you feel safer under the previous administration when they were commonly jacking up and announcing the code warnings to Orange or Red?”
The DHS website has the current warnting level at Orange (at least today they have the correct date).
“For all domestic and international flights, the U.S. threat level is High, or Orange.”
It is not as useful or helpful to bury the information in a link on a government website under “Check the Warning Level” rather than clearly announce them to the public.

How can you back peddle on National Security statements, in troubled times, and still be respected and taken seriously as the Homeland Security czar??? Answer: You Can’t…She needs to go back to Arizona……….

I give up! Can anyone tell me what, if anything positive at all, has Janet Napolitano accomplished as Chief of Homeland Security since she took office?

What an embarrassment. She should be fired — it just shows that the Obama administration is incompetent from the top to the bottom. The American people definitely made a mistake putting a person lacking in so many ways to the White House!

Janet Napolitano is clearly not qualified for the job of Homeland Security Secretary. She’s a spin doctor. Instead of trying to find out how a known terrorist got onto a flight to the US on a US airliner, she said that the system worked exactly like it is supposed to ! Who is she kidding ? President Obama has a clueless Secy of Homeland security. She should be fired from a her job.

How can you back peddle on National Security statements, in troubled times,
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you prove another colossal failure by Bush via Rummy,.
‘we know where the WMD’s are’ and he was running the war in Iraq…
so many more to chose from, a genuine miracle America survived the Bush administration..

Ja-No’s (Janet Napolitano) fantasy world
It has been, in the words of Queen Elizabeth II, an “annus horribilis” for DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. Beginning with her embrace of the impotent euphemism “man-caused disasters” to the hit job on conservatives and veterans that she was forced to apologize for, to her assertion that crossing the border illegally “isn’t a crime per se”, to her boneheaded claim that 9/11
terrorists came in through the Canadian border, Ja-No has confirmed time and again that she’s not ready for prime time. Today, she caps off her horrible year by playing Big Pollyanna in the
wake of the Flight 253. The botched bombing — foiled by a faulty detonator and brave passengers, not by homeland security bureaucrats or any preemptive measures by intel officials — shows that the in Ja-No’s fantasy world. If it weren’t for the “Flying Dutchman,” who I don’t believe works for TSA or Homeland Security, we’d have had a disaster. And Janet would be warming a spot under the bus. Let’s face it, she’s as effective as HS Sect as she was as Gov at stopping the invasion in her home state. Perhaps another 6 month study by a blue ribbon panel is
what’s needed here(just kidding). If these dopes were in charge in 1941 we’d all be speaking german and japanese. To be fair, does the White House know we are at war yet? Come to think about it, maybe they don’t? Why would I say that? Because the first thing the Administration did was get this psyco a lawyer! Then there was the news that the terrorist may need plastic surgury!
I’ll tell you what! Send this guy to any small town in America and we will give him some plastic surgery. Arizona’s gain was the U.S.A.’s loss! What a clueless clown. So let me see if I got this right. You don’t know what happened, or how it happened but you are sure that we are all safe until we point out you don’t know but you say the system worked but the system had nothing to do with a failed explosion (other than security measures make it tough to get a working bomb on board). When we point out the system did not work, then you agree to that. So we are left with a failed system run by you but you tell us we are safe but you don’t really know anything?
I guess her next comment will be “It depends on your definition of “the”.

This latest terror attack should be a clear and resounding wake up call to every man woman and child remindingg us that we are indeed at war with Muslim fundamentalists. And make no mistake about it…it is a religious war as much as if the crusaders of the early centuries were marching off to do battle with the heathen non Christians. Janet Napolitano must be removed from her position and a thorough and non political person be put into that position. Asisde from her ineptitude, Napolitano hardly evokes feelings of confidence nor savvy. What’s needed is someone with a “killer instinct” to put up the best defense possible against this unseen army.
They are out there to get us. War is war…I say do whatever it takes to minimize the damage. My fear is that there always will be some.