Janet Napolitano Should Resign Now
By now everyone knows about the attempt by a Jihadist from Nigeria to set off a bomb in an airliner above Detroit. But what many of us may not have been aware of is the fact that our nation’s transportation security systems worked just fine to prevent the terrorist from completing his Islamikaze mission. Or so says already-disgraced Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
This is just the latest in a series of incredibly stupid policies and mistakes made by this woman since she took office. It began with the report issued by DHS and approved by her which labeled just about every segment of our society, OTHER than the Islamic community, as potential terrorist threats–ESPECIALLY returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.
Then, as the Fort Hood massacre made news, it was discovered that our intrepid Secretary of HOMELAND Security was attending a women’s conference in the United Arab Emirates of all places…
But those two gaffs pale in comparison to her assessment of this latest attempted Islamikaze attack.
There are so many glaring errors in the short Associated Press news article linked above that it boggles the mind:
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1. “Homeland security head: The security system worked”
Nothing authorities did prevented that plane from being blown up. This was a case of a bad guy fumbling the ball on the one yard line through the end zone for a touchback. If the security system worked, then the system STINKS. Either Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab’s detonator was bad or else it was a case of “you need to be smarter than the equipment you’re using” and he screwed up. But if not for his screw-up, we’d have had a US airliner blown up and crashing over a populated area on Christmas with hundreds killed.
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2. “The father of the man accused of attempting to blow up the jetliner told U.S. officials in Nigeria he was concerned about his son’s extreme religious views. However, Napolitano says there was no specific information to place Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on a no-fly list.”
This is a byproduct of refusing to recognize the religious component integral to the enemies we face. The fact that the father informed us that his son was a Jihadi wasn’t enough for our PC system to keep him out of the US. This is the modern-day equivalent to allowing members of the SS into America because their membership in the SS was not sufficient specific information to exclude them.
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3. Napolitano says that within 60 to 90 minutes of the incident all 120 flights that were in the air at time were contacted to make sure the attempted bombing did not extend beyond the flight to Detroit.
How the hell were those other air crews supposed to know? Did they announce over the intercom,”Any terrorists on board with an explosive device strapped to your crotch, please raise your hand”?
The fact of the matter is, we were caught with our pants down and we are just damn lucky that Christmas 2009 wasn’t marked forever by an Islamikaze massacre.
Someone better figure a way to get this Napolitano woman out of office and out of the security business altogether before she gets a lot of Americans killed.
Filed under: Culture, Islam, Military/Security
While I appreciate what you're saying, Christopher, I have to take slight issue with it. Napolitano was no more acting alone when she said everything worked than was Abdulmutallab when he planned this foiled attack. She is the face of the Obama White House when it comes to domestic security, and she is simply expressing the beliefs, convictions, and policies of this administration. No doubt she will take the rap for those comments, but she is simply doing her job as instructed.
Chris isn't the only one calling for Napolitano's head. Jonah Goldbergis doing the same over at National Review:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTY0Y2E2...
An excerpt:
"Napolitano has a habit of arguing that DHS is a first responder outfit. Its mission is to deal with "man-caused-disasters" afer they occur. It appears she really believes it. If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly unqualified hack."