Noted moron: “The system worked”

How do idiots like Janet Napolitano ever make it to positions of  authority? Seriously?

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week 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 sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: “We’re asking the same questions

Yikes! First she says that they system worked, but, then admits they do not know how it failed. And yes, Janet, when a nutcase takes a freaking bomb on a freaking airplane, and almost detonates it, almost kills nearly three hundred people, then YES JANET, THE SECURITY SCREENING FAILED!

Again, how does a mental midget like this get a job anywhere, much less as head of Homeland Security?

UPDATE!! Apparently Napolitano thinks that part of our security strategy is failed detonators

Officials now say tragedy was only averted on Northwest flight 253 because a makeshift detonator failed to work properly.

Bomb experts say there was more than enough explosive to bring down the Northwest jet, which had nearly 300 people aboard, had the detonator not failed, and the nation’s outdated airport screening machines may need to be upgraded.

“We’ve known for a long time that this is possible,” said Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism czar and ABC News consultant, “and that we really have to replace our scanning devices with more modern systems.”

So, unless Napolitano heads a secret Failed Detonators Department, the stystem failed, and only luck saved three hundred lives. It damn sure was not DHS.

UPDATE #2 The clueless keep getting more clueless, as The Other McCain reports. Digging ever deeper in the Pit of Cluelessness Napolitano plays the “Lone Nut Card”

The administration has evidently decided to go with the “lone nut” angle: .

The U.S. has “no indication” that an attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight was part of a larger plot by a terrorist group, a top Obama administration official said.
“Right now we have no indication that it is part of anything larger, but obviously the investigation continues,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday.

Right. But what of the connections to al-Qaeda in Yemen?

Authorities say the 23-year-old suspect spent months in Yemen being trained for the Christmas Day suicide mission.
Investigators believe Abdulmutallab was connected to al Qaeda by the same radical imam, American-born Anwar Awlaki, who is linked to the American Army major accused of opening fire at Fort Hood in November.
According to investigators, the bomb . . . was built in Yemen by a top al Qaeda bomb maker. . . .

This is incompatible with Napolitano’s claim on CNN that this was not “part of anything larger.” One cannot train with al-Qaeda under the influence of a radical imam, and utilize an exploisve designed by al-Qaeda, without being part of something larger

 As Michelle Malkin predicted, the administration is denying reality

Victim card/lone nut card in 3, 2, 1…

Back to Stacy McCain with this news, er connection, er coincidence that means ABSOLUTELY nothing! Nothing at all

Probably just a random coincidence:

A second Nigerian man was been taken into custody aboard a jetliner in Detroit after locking himself in the airliner’s bathroom, The Associated Press reported.
A law enforcement official told the AP that the incident took place aboard the same Northwest flight that was attacked on Christmas Day.

Yeah, no connection, none at all I am sure! Just move along folks, and be sure to look out for those Right Wing Extremists, they are the real menace!

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