Janet Napolitano Beclowns Herself
Posted on 12.27.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 4:04 pm

A terrorist nearly exploded an airplane loaded with 300 passengers in mid-flight by igniting a bomb built into his underwear, and the response from America’s head clown of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, is this: “The system worked.”

Dear Mr. President, please heed the advice of Jonah Goldberg: Fire Napolitano!

And dear CNN, please send Candy Crowley back to journalism school for a refresher course on the essential follow-up question. It is inexcusable that she let a top government official contend that the “system worked” without then asking whether the U.S. homeland security system is based upon “having a passenger quick, brave and smart enough to fly over other passengers to get the guy.”

UPDATE, 12/28: Napolitano today recanted her “system worked” analysis, embracing the tried-and-false explanation that her quote was taken out of context. “Our system did not work in this instance,” she said. “No one is happy or satisfied with that.”


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  1. Dems never fire people in high positions. They got there, because they got dirt. Janet Reno did Ruby Ridge, Waco and Elian Gonzalez, and got a total pass. Should she go, she’ll threaten to take others with her. She stays, or takes a one way trip to Fort Marcy Park.

    Comment by hutch1200 — December 27, 2009 @ 8:19 pm

  2. [...] explains why Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano briefly clung to the notion that “the system worked” in deterring the “man-caused [...]

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  3. [...] pm On Christmas Day 2009, a would-be terrorist attempted to blow a jet airliner out of the sky by igniting a bomb built into his underwear. Had he succeeded, people wouldn’t be giving the terrorist, Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab, [...]

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