Kudos to Matt Lauer who, this morning on The Today Show grilled Napolitano over the remark she made during the Sunday morning news shows where Napolitano claimed the “system worked”. When Lauer stated the obvious, that the system “failed miserably”, Napolitano agreed.

Twenty-fours ago Napolitano made the Sunday news show rounds repeating the government’s claim that the “system worked”:

Janet Napolitano on CNN:

“What we’re focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe and that people are confident when they travel. One thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action. Within, literally an hour to ninety minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in light of what had occurred.”

As we pointed out yesterday, the one entity who “failed to work” was the federal government, i.e, Homeland Security who is in charge of airline safety, and therefore, should be held responsible for the system “failure” that occurred Christmas when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up the passengers and crew of Flight 523.

In yesterday’s post we included a really creepy video of a “hypnotizing” mullah at Australia’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Janet Napolitano Claims ‘System Worked’, Attempts Damage Control over Flight 523 Bombing