Napolitano: System Like ‘Clockwork ‘ After Attack, Not So Sure About Before

At least one person in the embassy in Lagos is incompetent. This is unbelievable and we should be outraged as american citizens. Where is the accountability?

Like clockwork, sure. A broken clock is right twice a day.

Incredible- we have a full jet load of crew and passengers spared death due to a malfunciton of a bomb and our Admin. claims everything worked like clockwork. This isn’t exactly being on top of things and staying ahead of terrorists is it?

The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was on a government master list called the Terrorist Identities Datamart environment, or TIDE. Abdulmutallab did not appear on any subset list and would not have been prohibited from flying.
The terror suspect acquired his TIDE record in Nov. 2009. Around the same time the suspect’s father expressed concerns about him to the US Embassy in Nigeria.

I watched this news program this morning also, and “disgusted” is the only response I can come up with. It insults the Americans intelligence when our Administration can not answer a simple question honestly and straight-forward. Instead, around and around we go with circular evasive nonsense. Who’s the “pot calling the kettle black” now?

Interesting….
Two bombs that fail to explode. Sounds like CIA to me. Wouldn’t surprise me if they got him the bomb…covertly….knowing that it wouldn’t explode. Why didn’t he try to detonate it in the airplane’s bathroom? Too many things don’t add up.
The real question is why would they want to scare the American people? What do they want? What power does the President want? He is the only one with the power to control the CIA.

Posted by janis|Dec 27, 2009 @ 10:05:18 AM —– I completely agree with your comment. I don’t think this is a partisan issue because both the past and current administration seems equally inept and less than straight forward. Our leaders are failing us on just about every level.

The audacity of dope. Special message to any lefties that really think that you can blame this in any way on Bush – get over it! (this means you hwoodude) You can’t keep blaming Bush for your failures. Bush set up the very same system that Napolitano is commending… but it’s the Obama War on Terror that removed the name from the blacklist. Do you always call the plumber when you forget to flush? And do you blame him when you’re constipated? Get a life! The training wheels are off. Your messiah is going to sink or swim all on his own. Bush Derrangement Syndrome is alive and well.

This woman needs to be fired. She continually demonstrates incompetance.

The RICH/ELITE Rule us.. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT US… Only their own political power and riches. This ADMIN is no different the one before it, the one before that.. and so on and so on.
Are we going to allow the RICH/ELITE DECIDE how WE THE NORMAL AMERICAN LIVE??
Time to do something people. Or are we the good little worker Drones they have made us into?

This is disgusting. The President should of made a appearance said something on this. Bush did nothing, he sat in a room in looked puzzled and O’Bama is out golfing. Its time to wake up and smell the roses before “we all die!!

Thanks Jake for asking the tough questions. I didn’t think the secretary’s answers were so great.

Napolitano’s performance was deplorable. She looked and sounded smug as she smiled and lauded how well the system worked after the attempted terror instance. All the while she inexcusably ignored Jake’s critical questions: Why was he allowed on the train? Why was he not body searched b4 boarding? Why was he allowed to keep a multi entry visa?
The administration should be embarrassed. The American people should be outraged.

Jake Tapper is doing a great job! Why did all of the systems, that costs billions of dollars, and are to keep events from happening, all in fail mode? Massive incompetence was shown on the interview!

I also find Janet N’s comments sooooo appalling!!! She starts of by saying ‘…the American people need to understand that there are several databases..’, No Janet, the American people need to understand that we have a bureeaucrat like her thinking she can fool the American people with her incomptent answer. Take some responsiblity, Janet!! It was a FAILURE of the system and the people who supposedly are keeping us safe.. Yes, the TSA is a job program, not a security program…

Jake,
You missed two opportunities in the interviews today. I am even handed here.
JN should have been asked, “if it was not for the alert passengers, the plane would have exploded in the sky. What you are defending is what happened AFTER he was overpowered. Why was he not apprehended before? The Consulates are under the Department of State while your department is under the Department of Justice. Is there any lack of cooperation between these two departments?”
To Mitch McConnell, you let him off easily but not probing deeper. It was his Republican colleagues who drove the economy off the cliff into the valley. Now why are they shedding crocodile tears over a deficit which the Congressional Budget Office has said will NOT increase the deficit? You should have persisted and got him to admit his hypocrisy!

Can this MSM get ant worse?
Is she on drugs?
She said the system worked!!
Is there any news people that can ask follow questions?

Gibb’s responses are even more ridiculous than the Secretary’s. 550,000 names! Don’t you have software to search this?
A truly bureaucratic response by Gibbs and the Secretary. Are these guys still campaigning? No–you are running a government my friends.

“Just the the facts, ma’am,” Jack Webb told the “spin”ster in his day. Jake is akin to the fictional Det. Webb. He was determined to get to the real facts today vs. the spin the secretary was presenting. Nice reporting, excellent journalism.

This administration is pitiful. Taking credit for the actions of people who were defending themselves is simply asinine and anyone that defends them can shove off.

This lady is a joke. The only reason we didn’t have a disaster is because the bomb didn’t detonate. NOT because the government did something right.

Amazing…America just now waking up to her incompetence as well as the rest of the current administration.

“I found it harsh…”
I guess harshness like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I am tired of politicians getting treated like fragile demigods.
I would have liked a few tougher follow-ups but I did like the blue tie.
Napolitano should have been fired after her “right wing” report. This interview just proves she is inept and deceitful.

Jake, why did you not ask the Secretary what she thought the response of the passengers on the plane would have been if they knew they were going to be flying with a person on the terrorist watch list ? Did she think it was okay not to give that relevant information to the passengers ?
The secretary’s performance in this interview was abysmal. Total lack of preparedness for the interview.I quit listening after she dodged every question, especially when she smiled all the way through it. What a loser. By the way I am a Democrat.

for gibbs and the secretary to say everyone on that plane needs to do their part to keep it safe is why we are in the boat the country is in now. it is bad enough at the airports, and now we are supposed to do their jobs some more and fight with terrorists to save our own lives on a flight to get where we are going. oughta be ashamed !!!!!!!. ou

Maybe if homeland security spent less time strip searching 80 year old grandmothers , 5 year old children and pouring out breast milk, they would have TIME to follow up on CREDIBLE leads on muslim terrorists who had been reported by their parents. Instead t.s.a pushes further restrictions on all travelers. We can’t have racial profiling just because we have a specific problem with a specific group of people can we ?

To Timothy Pennell: The Secretary of Homeland Security is not stupid what is stupid is the brilliant government take over of airport security by Bush and as usual he forgot to fund it. They apparently don’t have the funding to upgrade airports with devices that detect explosive residue or continuing education for the TSA personnel. The TSA is still operating on the assumption that everything dangerous is metal.
So if anybody is going to get us killed its the lack of funding to the very people who stand between us and a terrorist boarding a jet. Doesn’t it make you feel safe to know the best machinery they have is a metal detector.

Biden and Cheney were right. Two terrorist attacks on America before Obama’s first year is up.

The only real way to properly screen people at airports is the way the Israelis do it, that is, by profiling passengers according to their behavior, looking for Islamic extremists.
Of course, we’re not allowed common sense in this country – it would help if our POTUS actually loved his country.

What a clueless idiot Janet Napolitano is! She should be fired, immediately!
And Gibbs does not lie convincingly. The U.S. is in deep trouble when the president appoints jerks like these to represent his administration.

I just watched this IDIOT on TV and she needs to be thrown under the bus and fired!
Saying the system worked (meaning the passengers took out the terrorist)is the most absurd comment I have ever heard from someone sworn to protect the country.
Anyone who feels safe flying from a foreign country is a fool and I hope you don’t become a statistic.
And please get rid of Gibbs. These two FOOLS should be on the next plane from Nigeria. We are so screwed with homeland security.

Interesting….
Two bombs that fail to explode. Sounds like CIA to me. Wouldn’t surprise me if they got him the bomb…covertly….knowing that it wouldn’t explode. Why didn’t he try to detonate it in the airplane’s bathroom? Too many things don’t add up.
The real question is why would they want to scare the American people? What do they want? What power does the President want? He is the only one with the power to control the CIA.
Posted by: kennedy | Dec 27, 2009 10:09:22 AM
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Maybe that’s why they’re saying everything worked ‘like clockwork’. I think it’s so the TSA can get everyone to go through even more restrictions and to get everyone to go through those new body scans. Interesting the very next day there was news of these new body scans and how they’re wanting to implement those in our nation’s airports. Only something like this would get everyone to do that.
What they don’t realize and don’t want you to know is that all of the added security measures imposed on us here at home will do nothing to prevent someone from getting on a plane in Nigeria with explosives.

In both cases of 9/11 and flight 253, the government has enough intel. beforehand to prevent its occurrence. Apparently, the ‘clockwork’ mentioned by Janet Nap. does not seem to work well; it can not pass information from one hand to other. In the case of 911, the government could simply order airline to lockup all the cockpit door after take-off so no body can enter to hijack the plane. In the case of 253, the terrorist should be put in the no flight list after his father’s warning to US embassy.

She now leads Joe Biden for the stupidest comment of this administration.The only reason everthing worked like clock work is because the bomb didnt work period!

Nice note taking Jake. How about abc “news” send over someone who’s not in the government’s pocket to work on this one. You stick to covering the first family’s dog’s birthday. …and the next time you interview Bo, don’t leave copies of your resume all over the White House.

I love watching these bureaucrats “speak”, and find their body language and manorisims very enlightening. I don’t have sound on my computer so I don’t hear what they say. But, I feel I am very informed just the same by watching their facial expressions. I especially like “listening” to Obama’s speeches with no sound. It’s very entertaining.

Yep clockwork, why was this man on the plane? The only reason he didn’t blow up the plane was because the bom didn’t detonate and the passenger who restrained him. NOT the US government. Obama and his administration are quick to take credit for this incident but had the bomb gone off they would be blaming Bush. Pathetic.!

Janet Napolitano should be fired, Holder charged him with a high level of vandalism, fire Holder!!! These are Obama’s picks, Obama is weak, except when it comes to attacking tax payer of America

Obama is the number one moron.

dh………..I did NOT post that.

It’s comforting to know that after my family and I are blown up that things are going to be running like clockwork. I’ll sleep well tonight.

What a stupid comment. The on;ly reason this plane did not explode and crash into the city and killed hundreds if not thousands was because the detonator failed. What would she have said then???? That the goverment worked like clockwork to clean up the bodies???? What an administration, at least Bush kept us safe.

Why hasn’t Obama commented on the latest terror attack? Has he admitted that Fort Hood was a terror attack too? Oh Yeah, he is on vacation and can’t be bothered with things like a terror attack. It might affect his golf game.

Profiling works. It is how crimes are prevented and solved. Yep, it can be abused, but without it we have blown up planes.
Also, who cares if this database has 550K names on it? Any decent computer can scan for a match in a second or two. So screen ‘em. Just because it’s a “huge” database is NO reason to NOT use it. That is amateurish and illogical. Why even have the database if you plan to use its size as the reason to not query it?
As for “The system working” – one of the dumbest things ever said by a Cabinet official. She should be gone w/in a month. Of course, Gibbs should step down as well. He editorializes with HIS views too often. He’s supposed to relay the President’s views.

I agree with what Paul Krugman said later in the program. No security system involving millions of people is going to be 100% effective without being so expensive that nobody will be able to afford to fly. Striving for perfection certainly should be our goal, actually achieving it on the other hand…the blame for the inevitable very small failure rate will inevitably be kicked around like a political football.

The most important part of this is being missed. Pay special attention, leftards. This was pure dumb luck. You have possibly the most unpopular president the first year in office, and all it will take is one successful attack and your Hope and Change becomes Hopeless and Out Of Office. You should re-consider your words carefully, because “it’s all Bush’s fault” is getting real real old. You’re the ones that spent the last 8 years telling us there was no threat, after all – what now? A few things are now painfully obvious: 1) there really was and is a terrorist threat, 2) closing gitmo or electing obama had zero effect on that threat, in fact it emboldened them, and 3) removing the Patriot Act will not keep us safer.

Now I know what ObaME meant by “shovel ready jobs; For every failure of his administration there have been countless new jobs created to shovel You Know What to the american people. Didn’t they even consider that the “masses” would see through all the dung??

I’m retired law enforcement. I always explained to the victims that their loss was mostly their fault. Not only should they have locked their cars, they should have bought the device for the steering wheel and an expensive alarm. They should have installed lights all around their house that burn in all hours of darkness and overcast weather to go with the top of the line video system, covering every square inch of their property. In Detroit that’s 24/7/365. When they walk in the neighborhood, they need to call neighbors to walk with them. Robbers seldon stick up a pack of twelve people. When we patrolled the neighbor hood, one of us was always awake. In truth, we told them, if them want lower crime they need to live someplace else.
The same is true of flying. If you don’t want thrills, don’t fly. This government of kissy-face sweetie-pies is not going to protect you. Mr. O’Hamma’s PhD is in making excuses and ignoring reality. A “Wake Up Call” for this administration means that they wake up and blame someone else – like George.

Is there ANYONE in this Administration that ISN’T stupider than JOE BIDEN? This BROAD has no business being in charge of ANYTHING, except cleaning up after the IDIOTS’ DOG.
This bunch of MORONS, ESPESCIALLY the TRAIN WRECK in the White House, is gonna get us all killed.
Mark my words.

I agree with what Paul Krugman said later in the program. No security system involving millions of people is going to be 100% effective without being so expensive that nobody will be able to afford to fly. Striving for perfection certainly should be our goal, actually achieving it on the other hand…the blame for the inevitable very small failure rate will inevitably be kicked around like a political football.
Posted by: Skip | Dec 27, 2009 12:39:26 PM
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Me too.
I note that the many counterterrorism successes seem to get very little play in comparison.
Marc Ambinder at Atlantic Monthly has an interesting post up about President Obama’s strategy in all this. He writes: “There is a reason why Obama hasn’t given a public statement. It’s strategy.
Here’s the theory: a two-bit mook is sent by Al Qaeda to do a dastardly deed. He winds up neutering himself. Literally.
Authorities respond appropriately; the President… presides over the federal response. His senior aides speak for him, letting reporters know that he’s videoconferencing regularly, that he’s ordering a review of terrorist watch lists, that he’s discoursing with his Secretary of Homeland Security.
But an in-person Obama statement isn’t needed; Indeed, a message expressing command, control, outrage and anger might elevate the importance of the deed…Obama is willing to risk the accusation that he is “soft” on terrorism or is hovering above it all…(his “head’s in the sand, “golfing comes first,” )in order to advance what he believes is the proper collective response to a failed act of terrorism.
Let the authorities do their work. Don’t presume; don’t panic the country; don’t chest-thump, prejudge, interfere, politicize (in an international sense), don’t give Al Qaeda (or whomever) a symbolic victory; resist the urge to open the old playbook and run a familiar play.”
Makes sense to me. I hate that a certain predictable subset of the right wing immediately goes into panic mode.

progressive mama —duh, YEA RIGHT. So Obamy is playing it cool, boy I feel safer already. Thanks for that great insite.

The Secretary praised the actions of passengers, yet the government has not had any systematic effort to educate and train passengers on what to do in this kind of emergency. There have already been three examples of passengers rising to the occasion: the Northwest flight, the Shoe Bomber flight, and United 93 on 9/11. Billions have been spent on technologies that have never gone beyond the test and evaluation stage, and nothing has been spent to enhance a proven line of defense. Perhaps I’m cynical, but if there were the possibility of a private company making a huge profit from educating passengers, then maybe there would be something in place today.

The absolutely stupidest post is the one claiming that Obama’s action…or non action…is “strategy”. I’ve heard better excuses from La Vegas losers!! The apologists are as pathetic as he is!!

Napolitano is an idiot.
I sure feel more secure now, don’t you? On top of that WE HAVE NO BORDERS!
This party this President is a TOTAL FAILURE. Thats 2 TERRORIST attacks since Obama has been President. On at Fort Hood was sadly successful. Wasn’t the world supposed to LOVE us now that we had a new President? What FOOLS to vote for this man we all were.

Incredible- we have a full jet load of crew and passengers spared death due to a malfunciton of a bomb and our Admin. claims everything worked like clockwork. This isn’t exactly being on top of things and staying ahead of terrorists is it?
I could not agree MORE!

What would she be saying if the plane was in a million pieces, that the device worked like clockwork? The truth is she probably has more intel on me than on any terrorist. Billions upon billions spent and we get – Barney Fife.

“Wow, what an amazingly unified country this would be if you all behaved so reasonably the last eight years”
Only fanatical right-wingers think believing Bush administration’s complete failure to read intelligence reports and stop the 9/11 attacks and then start an incredibly expensive ill advised war to distract attention away from their original negligence is reasonable.

“Just like clockwork”. So, the FBI borded the pland and arrested him AFTR he was subdued and the fire extinguished. Great werk Napy. While you are sleeping America is being attacked. Not once but three times in the past eleven months. Time for you to retire and move to Mexico!

Where is the press on this?
Can anyone assert that Secretary Napolitano is the best qualified person for that position? Is any member of the press willing to ask such a question?

keredte you have hit it right on the mark no matter what other people say or want to believe. To say “it worked like clock work” is very disturbing, but the state controlled meadia will not see it that way. They are going keep doing this until the american people wont be able to walk outside their own house.
If northwest airlines is part of the united states airline system should that not include flights everywhere for the no fly list. No those two countrys are not part of the US but the planes are. This should be looked into. Right. Their are US citizens that are no fly lists for less then want this guy tried to do. Why would the Homeland security be involved if the planes were not part of the us. It doesnot matter where something happens it always ends up for MORE security for the US then it does anywhere else. why is that. HERE IS THE PROBLEM AGAIN, King said said authorities did have “a file on him. He was in a database, but the decision was made that he did not go on a no fly list because it did not involve aviation threats, aviation issues.” Congress to investigate. This will end up the exact same senerio as the sad case at Ft Hood, in why bother pointing fingers the blame game nothing gets solved. Again if homeland security was involved they should have known to put this guy on the no fly list in any country with amrican flights.
They seem to watch everybody but the people they need to

DUH!
It worked like clockwork after the
attack?
Those 270 plus passengers are lucky the
bomber screwed up or they would be
blown to smithereens!
If he had succeeded what would her
response have been?
The system DID NOT WORK.
I am getting fed up with this
administration consistently lying to
the American People.
The Economy is not in recovery no
matter what spin they put on it.
10 percent unemployment and a rise
in mortgage foreclosures are not
indications of any meaningful recovery.
Someone messed up regarding this
terrorist. Fess up Ms Napolitano!
Does this administration ever admit to
any mistakes(such as the ineffectual
stimulus bill)?

There have been three dry runs in the last month aboard planes in the U. S. Obama and his moron Homeland Security Director focus on returning veterans as “man caused” terror risks. TSA releases their handbook on handling terror in the skies. The man’s father contacts our government about his son’s dangerous behavior. He is on a watch list. But they allow him to fly and refuse to target middle eastern and Muslim flyers. PC you know. Obama shuns and insults our traditional allies and curries favor with those who hate the U.S. He condemns our country overseas. (it’s not his country) His generals encourage Muslim fanatics in the army which results in deaths at Ft. Hood. His FBIDirector IMMEDIATEY announce there is not terror connection with the killer BEFORE any investigation takes place. Obama projects weakness. He invites terror attacks. His press cover for him over and over.

Only fools would beleive her fools and media.

Who would have believed that Obama and his crew, in less than a year, could make George Bush look competent.

Let’s see what Napolitano’s qualifications are. She’s a lawyer. How many lawyers do you know that you would entrust the security of our country to? But wait, isn’t that the only real qualification that Obama has (oh my, are we in trouble?). Then she was the Governor of Arizona (that must be it). But wait, wasn’t Palin a governor also? Doesn’t the left portray governors (i.e. Palin and Bush) as too stupid to tie their own shoes? Wasn’t Janet the one that said acts of terrorism should be called “man-caused-disasters”? Wasn’t it her department that said “troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at risk for being recruited by right-wing extremists”? What about putting the TSA Screening Manual on line? At least with Palin, that on a clear day you REALLY can see Russia from Alaska.

Obama needs to fire Napolitano immediately. He needs to say that the buck stops with her, and she needs to pay the consequences. Only then will you reduce the odds of a second lapse. Also, Napolitano used poor judgment defending the security system. The only way it could be defended is if part of the plan was to rely on Al Queda detonation failure; surely that wasn’t in anybody’s playbook, especially since Richard Reed pulled the same stunt before. Good grief.

Of course it went like clockwork, we were warned by his parent he was an extremist Muslim, he was on a terrorist data base, he got on in Nigeria, paid with cash, bought a one way ticket, had a multi entry visa, had no checked bags, only a backpack on an international flight. Why on earth would any of that raise a flag in this administration where success is failure and failure is success?

This lady is absolutely incompetent and should be removed immediately. The system didn’t work at all and only because the fuzing system was defective did the plane not explode. She is an idiot.

The only thing that worked here was that a vigilant and brave passenger was present. Napolitano is evidently more concerned to spin the situation to avoid criticism than to act in any meaningful way to protect us.
This is the government to which we should be willing to trust our health care. Yeah, that’ll work.

Hey, it’s not easy to be that stupid. Give Napolitano her props.

She is the poster child of IDIOTS…. So this guy had the explosive sown into his UNDERWEAR…… just HOW making people stay in their seats supposed to stop this… are they hoping people will pee their pants, thereby diluting any explosive…… hehehehhe ??

They used to restrict movement out of your seats for the final 1/2 hour before landing at Reagan National.It was no big deal,but I really doubt that it added much to security.It is another”back to the future” measure without much point.This is what you have when amateurs run the show.New security measures should be confidential, but Gov. Janet would rather shoot her mouth off and tell the terrorists how to avoid the new tactics.If she stays there will be blood.

We have choices: Either replace these dangerous buffoons at the ballot box soonest, or take measures such as the Founding Fathers did to toss out King George III and his Parliament’s stranglehold on America.
For the record, under Premier Obama’s watch, in the less than the first full year of his ascendency, there have been three terrorist attacks within the sovereign borders of the U.S.: the murder of the soldiers at the North Little Rock, Ark., recruiting station; the Ft. Hood massacre of soldiers and a civilian by a self-avowed Soldier of Allah Muslim jihadist; and now this Northwest-Airlines incident almost at DTW.
Someone soon is going to have to have the testicularity to call Obama’s hand on breaking his oath of office through his direct or indirect actions.

Let’s see—we are at risk from any overseas flight that comes from a country where antiterrorism protocols aren’t absolutely rigorous.
For example, the Kiwis are quite pro-Arab, and I know from personal experience (having been a Permanent Resident) that their security protocols on LEAVING the country are ridiculous. Everyday non-stops fly from Auckland to Honolulu and San Francisco.
It’s not “right-wing” to not want to be blown up. Bush and Cheney did a much better job than this clown.

O-dummy was within one defective fuse of a defining moment for his presidency. 290 dead on Christmas from a terrorist who was already on their list but did not face a special inspection that would have spotted the bomb because of bureaucratic incompetence. And now his head of HHS talks about how it was like clockwork! My God. Next time we won’t be so lucky.

Where did this bomber originate? It is inconceivable that anyone could be blaming the government for a failed security breach that is to be blamed on the “mess-up” of the security system of a foreign country. This person was allowed on a plane which flight originated in Nigeria. It also came through Amsterdam, in the Netherlands with this guy undetected. How are officials here in this country are being blamed for a failure of the Dutch and Nigerian security people.
Who are you guys blaming? You never blamed Bush for 9/11, you did not blame him for starting a bogus war in Iraq, you have not blamed him for a failed and wrecked economy. You have put ala the blame of Bush’s incompetence on President Obama’s Administration. You guys must quit playing politics. You Repubs begin to sound like a set of whining and hungry coyotes.
Stop playing politics and be objective. This fruitless hounding of this administration will get you nowhere.

How can we trust a woman who appears on TV with that outfit and haircut in the first place? Seriously, though, the only thing that kept that bomb from blowing our jet out of the air was a faulty detonator- and security screening is working like clockwork? Maybe like a broken sun dial, but clockwork? No. She doesn’t know what she’s doing, much less what she’s talking about. And yes, it is our security that failed. That plane was destined for the US. There are checks that should have stopped him that did not. Our “No Fly” list did not work. “Wait a minute,” you say, “he wasn’t even on the list.” Exactly. Why have a “No Fly” list, if we do not put suspected terrorists on it? Oh, that’s right, we’re more concerned with being PC- better to get blown up than to offend any terrorists.

The President’s B plus has suddenly changed to a C minus! Napolitano needs to go. Be replaced by someone who can handle the job. The government’s neglect of its responsibilities is hard to phatom. Change that no-fly list! Hire people who really have a brain and will earnestly work on behalf of the American people.

It worked like “clockwork”? Why was a man with a bomb allowed on a US bound plane?
Napolitano is incompetent like the rest of the Obama administration. BTW, why hasn’t Obama made a statement about the latest terror attempt? Oh yeah, we are not supposed to call them terrorists.

Janet Napolitano admitted that the system failed.
In my local newspaper, Napolitano made comments in the paper’s week of sensationalism about Human Trafficking. She said a big new Human Trafficking intiative is being developed and coming next year. Appearently, again, they were busy fussing over prostitutes instead of dealing with public safety.
Here is a perfect example of how the federal govt’s lousy priorities failed AGAIN. It was only a faulty detonator that saved 100s of poeple from death….it sure was not the State Dept that save them.

How about the before??? The after can be too late. Homeland Security certainly had no hand in preventing death or injury in this incident; luck and alert passengers and crew deserve a lot a credit on this one. Napolitano is an incompetent and shouldn’t be in that post in the first place.

typical liberal, they talk about something so they think they fixed it.

“clog in the beaurocratic plumbing” Is that a new catch phrase? This whole administration is an idiot. At least with Bush we felt safe.

I wonder why so many politicians open their mouths before their brains are even working! You’d have thought that they have learned not to do so, yet time and again, they say the first “positive” thing before even getting the full facts, let alone ponder and think over the whole issue. Time to use duck tape on all of them.

It’s the same old story, government not doing their job. and They expect the passangers and flight attendants to do their dirty work while they sit back and let people like this to slip thru the cracks. It’s certainly not like the movies where government institutions are crack on the case. Far from it. Sept 11th should have taught us all that.

Napolitano: System Like ‘Clockwork ‘ After Attack…
…Is like saying that the CSI teams did their jobs like ‘clockwork’ after the murder victim had died….

The head of Homeland Security needs to be replaced; should never have been given the job to begin with.

It’s Homeland Insecurity. She doesn’t do other parts of her job either, if she did we wouldn’t have 5-8 Million illegals working in this country. Criminals hide in plain site and cost us at least 1 Billion dollars per state/per year.

I wonder if this witch thinks that returning vets and retired vets are still the nations largest security problem.
What this woman needs is something I can’t type here, but I think you can use your imaginations.

Why do incidents like these always deteriorate in to partisan finger pointing? Yes, Obama is the president and anything that happens on his watch is his responsibility but just how is it constructive to blame the president? The same thing could have happened on Bush, McCain or Palins watch and it would be their responsibility but not necessarily their fault. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter whose fault it is, only that we address the problem and correct it. I do have to say that Ms. Napolitano’s remarks are absolutely asinine but we all know that is just spin on a systemic failure.

“Not so sure about how things went before”, typical of a person over her head and you can’t figure what to do. this woman should not have the position if she can’t keep on top of things, inspite of recent events and thousands of people working for her–quit and quit not!!!!!!

I see a lot of posts blaming Napolitano (that may be warranted, I also agree that she is not qualified). But do you really think for one minute that any statement she made on this subject was not run past the President, Rham Emanuel, David Axelrod and other top administrators (and approved) before she went on national TV? This administration is one of the best at controlling the message. They will tell their Cabinet members what to go out and tell the public (you don’t wing it in this administration). Just listen to them, the phraseology may be different, but the “talking points” are always the same (even Gibbs said basically the same thing Napolitano said initially). However, if the message does not come across as they thought it would, they will throw you under the bus in a heart beat. Look at Obama’s grandmother (typical white person), his own pastor of 20 years (Rev. Wright) and I could name 50 others. In Chicago politics, it’s not the politician that has the power; it’s the handlers and the power brokers that call all the shots. Due to Obamas oratorical skills, all they have to do is put it on the teleprompter and people swoon. If you really think that Obama is the one in charge, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you.

Mary Steele, while I agree with you about our southern border. I have to cut Janet a little slack. The last DHS appropriation bill allocated $0 and striped funding for the border fence. This was done mainly at the requests of environmental groups. However Chris Dodd got $300,000 to repair a pier that doesn’t even have a boat docked there (what this has to do with homeland security I haven’t an idea). But I really doubt that Napolitano put up much of a fight for funding. I guess this is “change” we can believe it.

Napolitano is incompetent and pathetic and needs to go.

FIRE Napolitano NOW.