Janet Napolitano Claims ‘System Worked’, Attempts Damage Control over Flight 523 Bombing
Look into my eyes…. then repeat after me… “the system worked, the system worked”.…
Got to love Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s Amazing Kreskin attempt at damage control over the Delta Flight 253 bombing incident that occurred Christmas day. According to Napolitano, the “system worked” after a passenger ignited a bomb that failed to fully explode and passengers were able to contain him and the fire that erupted on the plane just prior to landing at Detroit.
Apparently for Napolitano, the same “system worked” again, after a new incident occurred today at the same airport, same airline, same flight number, same country origin of the passenger who exhibited the same “behavior” as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Luckily, this time, no bomb incident occurred:
From the New York Daily News:
A disruptive Nigerian passenger caused the pilot of the same Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight targeted by a Nigerian bomber Christmas Day to declare an emergency Sunday.
Delta/Northwest Airlines flight 253 landed safely in Detroit at 12:34 p.m. and was shunted to a remote part of the tarmac, where it was being held as officials investigated.
CNN reported a passenger spent nearly an hour in the bathroom, then emerged “unruly” and “verbally disruptive.”
This morning on CNN Napolitano stated that the “system worked”, the “system”, according to Napolitano, the passengers and crew!
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.”
What Napolitano failed to mention was that the one entity that didn’t “play a role” was the federal government, who failed to check their own “terrorist watch list” where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been listed for two years. Apparently the Brits found Abdulmutallab “dangerous” as they barred him returning to their country earlier this year.
There’s also the “hour to ninety minute factor” which meant that planes in the air weren’t notified for up to an and hour and a half after the failed bombing on Flight 523 occurred. Ninety minutes is an incredibly long period of time to be “flying blind” where one or more terrorist passengers on the 128 flights could have slipped through the federal government’s “highly successful” system.
Perhaps Napolitano and those assigned to damage control in the federal government could hone their “hypnotic” addressing the public people skills with the following “creepy” video from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney Australia.
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