Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day 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 has been charged with trying to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the jet, Napolitano responded: "We're asking the same questions."
She then went on to say that there's no suggestion the terrorist was improperly screened.
Sheez. We're led by incompetents. Napolitano should be fired post haste for this sort of idiocy.
Jonah Goldberg speaks for me:
Napolitano has a habit of arguing that DHS is a first responder outfit. Its mission is to deal with "man-caused-disasters" afer they occur. It appears she really believes it. If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly unqualified hack.
And then in 2012, we'll fire the unqualified hack responsible for appointing all the others found in this administration.
Crossposted(*).
As idiots go, I'd give her a solid B+...
Posted by: Chris Berg | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 01:43 PM
Oh, I'd give her an A+++ in idiocy. It's about the only thing this administration can claim for its own.
Posted by: Mommynator | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Come on gang... the system worked because she said it worked... what have facts to do with it?
What are you all... a bunch of skeptics?
Candy better do a better job protecting her position at CNN now.... than Janet has done protecting ours...
Posted by: chuck aka xtnyoda | Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 04:47 PM
The sky is blue, milk is white, Al Gore is still fat and Janet (big Sis) Napolitano admits that she is a moron. (obliquely)
The next time she thrusts that finger into the political wind? She had better stop and check out where it has been before she licks it.
Posted by: Locutisprime | Monday, December 28, 2009 at 09:12 AM
your blog is weak.........
Posted by: Barry "Nigerian" Obama | Monday, December 28, 2009 at 04:21 PM
She is without a doubt a blithering idiot and should not be in charge of our great nation's security - I cannot believe that she is the secretary of DHS. It's utterly pathetic... "Systematic failure" ?? The CIA knew about this monkey before, for weeks, and did nothing?
You've got to be kidding me. The best intelligence in the world, premiere agencies such as the CIA, FBI, NSA, DHS let this one slip by?
Thank God for the heroics of those on board otherwise this situation would have been a lot nastier than it turned out to be.
Someone please fire Napolitano - please, for the sake of this great nation...
Posted by: Mak Kam | Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 09:21 PM
How about we start impeachment proceedings at the top so we can rid our great country of these traitors?
Posted by: alice hall | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 06:34 AM
Janet Napolitano needs to go. Why do liberals like Obama feel they need put imbosiles like that in power?
Posted by: dare2sayit.com | Friday, January 01, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Janet is right on the money! Charge these treasonists!
Posted by: Pay Triot | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 at 06:42 PM