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Napolitano’s Inept Homeland Security Department

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 18th, 2010 at 12:00 PM  | 

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Rowan Scarborough has the top story at Human Events today.

In New York’s Time Square, it was a hot dog vendor who spotted a bomb-laden Nissan SUV. The man who parked it there, Faisal Shahzad, was able to board a Persian Gulf-bound jet many hours after Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of airport screening, knew his identity.

In an airliner over Detroit, passengers prevented Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from igniting an underwear bomb. The bomber was known to DHS as a potential saboteur, but was able to board the U.S.-to-Amsterdam flight on Christmas Day.

A month earlier, base police stopped Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, a radical Islamist, after he killed 13 of his Army colleagues. Hasan’s growing extremism and links to a fanatic al Qaeda preacher in Yemen were not acted on by the Obama Administration, including DHS.

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  • Tbone

    It is what sets it apart from being dumb or ignorant and what makes it fatal.

    Unfortunately, when stupidity is embraced by those in authority, the fatalities are often the innocent.

    Janet Napolitano is a very stupid woman.

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ reaganiterepublicanresistance

    We’ll all be safe from salt!

    And all he had to do to give these terrorist scum pause was appoint, say, and Rudolph Giuliani to DHS… but NO, we get this unqualified nothing.

    I thought Obama was supposed to be so street smart… hard to imagine where he got the idea that looking like an appeasing little worm to bloodthirsty, insatiable enemies was a good way to go

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    OK, it’s McCain doing the questioining. Fugheddabout it.

    When she starts her answer, she almost seems to be under the influence of a politically induced stupor. Grasping for words to couch her incompetence at not actually having read the bill with the same clumsiness a drunk would walk a straight line or try and touch her nose with her eyes closed.

    Yes, that’s it. Drunk with ideology.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoQUNurZ6kw

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    and fully demonstrating the idiot part of the terminology used to describe their kind by their old soviet handlers…

  • teapartypatriot

    “Systemic failure” napolitano will be – hopefully – one more nail in the 2010 coffin of the lunatic-left d-crat socialists. Like TAX CHEAT geither, who is the symbol of corruption in the pelosi-hussein regime, “SF” napolitano is its symbol of gross incompetence.