It's time to put a real cop in charge. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is just not fit for the job, after she claimed "the system worked" in Flight 253 terror incident. Caption & Image Credit: NY Daily News/Brandon AP
The Obama Administration must go
From self-professed Communists to American culture-hating PC malcontents, the administration of this 44th presidency must go.
The latest evidence of how dangerous this administration is to the governance of our country happened on Christmas day and the week-end following the foiled Islamic religion inspired terrorist attack on a Northwest Airlines Flight 253 during the landing phase of its Amsterdam to Detroit journey.
Janet Napolitano, the third Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security since its formation, has absolutely no idea or background in what it takes to protect our country from terrorist threats. Her first comment on the events that led to the failed bombing attempt (detonator break-down on the attempt to ignite 80 grams of explosive sewn into the underwear of Nigerian passenger, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab) was that "One thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked," Napolitano said on CNN. "This was one individual, literally, of thousands that fly and thousands of flights every year," Napolitano continued. "And he was stopped before any damage could be done."
Problem is that nothing in the Homeland security system that Janet Napolitano heads stopped a man, who was pointed out to be a problem to the United States by his father (Abdulmutallab's father, Dr. Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, was a government minister during the 1970s and went on to become the head of the First Bank of Nigeria), from boarding a plane bound for a major United States city with explosives sewn into his underwear. Plain and simple ... the American people were lied to by Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, in an attempt to diffuse the real problem. This Administration does not believe that there really is a war on terror, just criminal acts. Janet Napolitano must go.
This is only the tip of the Obama Administration iceberg of dangerous appointed operatives.
We have all witnessed the trials of Van Jones, Green Jobs Czar appointed by Barack Obama's Senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett ... after it was discovered that he was a "truther" ... but this was not the worst of why Anthony "Van" Jones was dangerous to our country and its administration. He had claimed in his own words that he was a Communist - period.
From legal advisor in the State Department, Harold Koh, former dean of the Law School at Yale University, is an advocate of transnationalism ... to Mark Lloyd, Obama’s FCC diversity czar, who is an open admirer of leftist thug Hugo Chavez in Venezuela for his handling and control of media in Venezuela ... to Obama’s science czar, John Holdren, who advocates for forced abortions, forced sterilization, government control of reproduction, confiscation of babies from families at the whim of the state and elimination of so-called undesirables ... to Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar. Sunstein believes that hunting should be banned and animals should have the right to sue people and he also believes there should be a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. Actually, almost all of the Obama Administration is filled with people who have a grudge against the United States and American Culture.
The Obama Administration has to go!
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You're in serious need of some psychiatric attention.
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Where in hell did you get "$80,000 of explosive"????
It was, according to reports, about 80 GRAMS - or about 3 ounces.
Given the price of det cord, maybe $10 or $15 bucks; maybe 10 times that on rip-off black market.
And yeah, nothing in the "security theater" of the absurd established by Bush and little improved by Obama stopped the guy - because he never entered it until after trying to set off his testicle bomb.
Blame the Nigerians and the Dutch - they let him get that far.
Our lives, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are under siege from this current administration. Is it ineptitude or as some conservative commentators have noted, a well organized scheme?
AD, name one EFFECTIVE change the previous administration made to homeland security after 9/11.
Once AGAIN - the CIA had interviewed this guy's father - and DIDN'T PASS THE INFORMATION ON TO ANYONE WHO COULD USE IT!!!!!
The knock on THIS administration is that they haven't fixed it 11 months into office - let's see if this serves as a wake-up call for them at least.
Snark - The only measure we all need to go by is the number of successful and foiled attempts at terrorism as to "nameing one EFFECTIVE change the previous administration made to homeland security after 9/11".
If you hadn't noticed ... terrorists do not take THIS Administration seriously and THIS Administration, sadly, does not take terrorists seriously either. This attitude by the Obama Administration will end up where American lives will tragically end abruptly and needlessly through terrorist acts.
Jenks, in case YOU hadn't noticed, they didn't take the previous administration seriously.
The Taliban has come back in Afghanistan and dramatically increased its presence and influence in Pakistan. Al Qaeda didn't even exist in Iraq until the bungled, under-manned invasion created a power vacuum for them - and in the long run cost us more American lives than 9/11.
And in the particular instance of the Detroit attempted attack, the CIA ~~AGAIN~~ had information that it didn't share with the people who needed it - despite all the claims by the Bushites that they had 'fixed' homeland security.
People ... it is high time to begin to focus - Bush is NOT the President and the crowd we have in place has been there for almost one year ... with a Congress that controls the purse strings for almost three years.
When, in fact, do liberal/progressive/Democrats and Obama supporters plan to "Man Up" and take responsibility for the actions (or inaction) of the Government they run?
And there is still talk of the Obama Administration sending Gitmo detainees to Yemen at the same time The United States and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen yesterday after learning an Al-Qaeda offshoot linked to a botched US airliner bombing is planning attacks on Western targets.
Score:
Al-Queda Islamic Terror - 2 (failed bombing attempt and the closing of embassy in Yemen)
United States - 0 (in its response and resolve in this actual War On Terror)
How about we see if Obama does more than talk about fixing intel sharing?
Fact is, this is the first solid case where the current administration had it clearly demonstrated that the previous one was all hat & no cattle on fixing the intelligence turf wars.
I'm willing to give them a little rope to see how they run with it - but if they end up as ineffective as Bush/Cheney, I won't hesitate to blast them, either.
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