This from the woman that put out the letter accusing veterans, Conservatives, and gun owners of being the biggest terror threat to America and refusing to apologize for her comments!

This woman needs to be fired immediately.  How much more incompetence can this country take?  I do not see myself flying too much in the near future because of idiots like Napolitano.  Stop blaming President Bush for all your woes.  How many incidents like this did we have after 9/11 when Pres Bush was in office?

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" Tacitus

JANET NAPOLITANO: Sure, I think the comment is being taken out of
context...

Out of context? How could anyone take "the system worked" out of context?

...What I'm saying is that once the incident occurred, moving
forward, we were immediately able to notify the 128 flights in the air
of protective measures to take, immediately able to notify law
enforcement on the ground, airports both domestically, internationally,
all carriers, all of that happening within 60 to 90 minutes, so --

Translation: After the armed inmate had escaped, we locked down the cell blocks and welded all the cell doors shut. Then we dialed everybody up and told them about it.

A lot of good that was going to do for the people on that flight. I think the idea here is to keep explosive-laden Islamic goons from getting on U.S. bound flights to begin with, not telling everybody they may me about to have to clean up really a huge mess.

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It's time to do away with the DHS entirely, as this hideous, bloated government organization has repeatedly shown that it is nothing more than a dumping ground for incompetent government boobs. 

I was opposed to it's creation to begin with, and have long felt it to be one of GWB's biggest mistakes as POTUS.

I view the very existence of a DHS to be far more of a threat to our freedoms and liberties than it is any real benefit to the safety and security of the American people, as it more and more appears its only real purpose is to maintain the security (power?) of the government.

Of course, the borderline illiterate TSA daughter-molesting morons could easily be replaced by private employees trained in the same manner as the Israeli's train their security personnel.

At the end of the day, the taxpayers would save billions, and be far safer, too.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. -Dorothy Thompson

-Dave

Remember the comment about pre-9/11: "they didn't put two and two together."

Why not? It's a consequence of treating terrorism as a law enforcement matter, where the defendant's rights are the chief concern, versus treating this as war, where security comes first. When databases don't "talk to each other," that's usually the explanation: it's because the databases aren't designed to create a system of knowledge. Instead, they create "hardened silos" of information, protected from each other information source. That happens when each information source worries about the liability in exposing their treasured knowledge.

This just in... Matt Lauer was taken to the hospital when he discovered 2 strange lumps in his underpants.   Stay tuned for further reports... 

When asked if he went to war with Iraq  to derail the impeachment vote:  “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

...or be otherwise forced out, the Bolshevik Boy Wonder would merely select someone else just like her - quite possibly someone even worse.

After all, throughout history, aspiring totalitarians have always chosen their appointees for their political reliability, not for their competence.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. -Dorothy Thompson

-Dave

Connect the dots Janet. Connect the dots. You blame Bush but then do exactly what you accused him doing. 

This woman is a danger to Americans.  She should be fired.  Write, call, or e-mail your representatives that she should be fired. 

Meanwhile, anyone willing to sit in their seat an hour out from their flight's destination because of this asinine new Homeland "Security" rule by the brain dead Janet "the system worked" Napolidufus?  Anyone out there travel with kids or a pregnant woman that can sit for more than hour before having to go to the bathroom anywhere?

Next thing you know, our president will send half as many troops than were asked for by the field commander in Afghanistan and set a time line for their withdrawal for our enemies . . .  Oh, wait a minute, duhbama already did that!

Anyone for adult leadership in 2010?  2012?

For those of you thinking JayNap hasn't been effective, you're crazy.

There has not been a single terrorist attack perpetrated by a white conservative Christian male since The One took office.   NOT ONE!  She has totally locked down that demographic.   Mission Accomplished! 

When asked if he went to war with Iraq  to derail the impeachment vote:  “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

Janet you are such an inspiration, I don't think anyone else could have been more appropriate for this Administration yet totally uninspiring to the American Public at large.

The system "worked" after it "failed miserably".

Again...they are blaming the Bush Admin with the "been in place since 2006" statement. Hello! The measures in place were not executed!

Laura...I'm waiting for your call

Took you long enough to blame Bush for this murderous idiot. Janet--it was 48 hrs--isn't that a personal worst, blaming-Bush-wise?

Our family get together is Wednesday and I'm supposed to fly tonight to Chicago from LAX.  As of now, I'm 90% sure I will cancel, unless I can get more confidence in the TSA and Homeland Security, i.e. my mother telling me to knock it off and get on the plane.

 They are not stuck on stupid, they are springloaded in that position!

 It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton

Appropriate response.

Not one lib posting on this thread (so far) to defend Stinky BO and his minion?  How odd.  Surely, there is some way one of the socialists can spin this to their advantage.  No?  H-m-m-m must be they are afraid of flying too.

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the Plain Meaning of Words!" ~Sam Adams

You're doing a heckuva job Nappy.

Now RESIGN!

Good grief, why not just state the obvious.

I've taken that flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, and I was surprised at the lack of security in Amsterdam.  That should not be a surprise from an airport that prides itself in selling keychains and trinkets that glorify smoking pot.

It's time to through out the political correctness and start profiling.  The TSA spends time inspecting the shoes of a 90 year old woman but won't look twice at an Arab man who has no baggage and has a one way ticket.  Look at every person who has died  or was caught trying to kill innocent people.  Profiling will save lives.  Political correctness endangers all of us.

I wonder if his dad is one of those bankers working out of an internet cafe and deciding to trust me with an inheritance from an army colonel he happens to know. This comment has nothing to do with this, of course, sorry. I also think the link (below) to pot smoking in Amsterdam and this incident might be shaky.

Same old same old.

DHS Secretary "we were immediately able to notify the 128 flights in the air of protective measures to take, immediately able to notify law enforcement on the ground, airports both domestically, internationally, all carriers, all of that happening within 60 to 90 minutes,"...yet the President wasn't informed until around the 3 hour point because the event wasn't deemed to be significant.

"Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"

was that the passengers actually stopped this guy?

Recall that Bill Clinton whined that there was no opportunity similar to 9-11 during his administration. He really thought it would have been to his political advantage to have one.

Is it possible that the administration is waiting for one of these things to succeed so that they can step in and say, "Bush didn't do enough! We have to do more." Then establish even more draconian rules on our citizens to "prevent it from ever happening again."

There really are very few reasonable analyses of the situation:
*This administration is truly ignorant of the realities...
*This administration is occupied by stupid people...
*This administration sees a successful attack as an opportunity for more control of our lives!