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.”
What in the hell is she talking about. The system did nothing in preventing this possibly tragedy. The brave passengers and flight crew members are what prevented this. The system that supposedly worked let this man on the plane. The system didn’t flag him “appropriately”. The system apparently has ignored this man’s father warning the U.S. embassy about him. The system let this man get on the plane with explosives.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not even going to place any blame anywhere right now. It has to be a a very daunting task to get all the “right” people on the no fly list. Sort through all the intel that comes in and decide who gets what level security scrunity.
And we don’t and can’t really have that much control over what other countries do, except for adding people to a no fly list.
Janet Napolitano also proudly boasts in THIS CNN interview that with in 1 hour to 90 minutes that all flights in the air had been notified of the incident so that they could possibly take extra security measures as well. There were 128 flights over the United States at the time, there is no way this should take 90 minutes. But the system worked??!!??
But to say that a system worked when it almost brought down a plane 10 minutes outside of Detroit is ridiculous.
And what has our fearless leader President Barack Obama had to say about all this. Well, he said……..oh wait, he has been to busy playing golf in Hawaii to even really comment on this ordeal. I seem to remember people being critical of President Bush taking to long to act (which he wasn’t) on 9/11. Yes, I know, a little different. But imagine all the critics coming out of the woodwork if President Bush didn’t say anything about this and was instead playing golf and living it up in Hawaii.
I am not even saying he should end his vacation or playing golf. But why hasn’t he said anything.
Maybe it is because he will actually have to use the word terrorism in a speech. He will have to admit there was an act of terrorism here in the U.S. We all know he and his administration don’t use the dirty “T” word (terrorism).
Oh well, more great acts by the great administration.
