Which is why you should never ever have a political appointee in a position where actual job performance is required -- witness this statement from DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
From Politico:
Napolitano: "The system worked" 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."
Napolitano added that there was "no suggestion that [the suspect] was improperly screened."
It worked because the guy got onto the plane even though his name was on the no-fly list and his father had contacted the USA Embassy in November with his concerns about his son? The system worked because the screening process didn't catch the explosives or the syringe? It worked because it was a couple other passengers that stopped him?
The idiots at TSA are fighting their last wars. Richard Reid put a bomb in his shoe so now we all have to take our shoes off for X Ray. This latest idiot used a blanket on his lap to conceal what he was doing so now we cannot have anything on our laps for the hour prior to landing. They are fighting their last wars -- they are taking the tactic the enemy used and adding it to the arsenal of ways to annoy us instead of learning, adapting and thinking of other tactics that can be used.
Napolitano's legacy as Governor of Arizona is not a good one. Her treatment of Veterans in Arizona while she was governor is shameful. Her statement that returning Iraq Veterans are potential domestic terrorists should have been an immediate call for her resignation:
Hat tip to The Blogmocracy for the link.
Posted by DaveH at December 27, 2009 12:13 PM