Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that "the system worked."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/1209/Napolitano_The_system_worked.html?showall

I will admit that I despise intent of this president, the people in his administration and their enablers among the population. But that being stated for the record, is it imaginable the Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is anything less than a complete fu@!ing idiot.

The system worked!

She went on to explain how the list that this attacker’s name had of late allegedly been added too consists of 500,000 entries. Apparently such a number of entries are not effectively searchable so that individual entries could be flagged for extra scrutiny. Imagine that! In the information age within which anybody can almost instantaneously access billions off IP address, where hundreds of millions of credit and debt cards are instantaneously verifiable, where in this country alone the health care scheme purports to digitize the life time health records of every single one of almost 300 million individual so every government bureaucrats, insurance bureaucrats, doctor, nurse, receptionist, janitor will have instant access; as of two days ago airline security apparatchiks literally holding the lives of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in their hands on any given day either effectively can’t or won’t bother to check IDs of flyers against a data base of a mere 500,000.

If you believe anything the people responsible have been saying for years this attacker not only was known to fit a profile - young, Islamic, radicalized associations, unexplained travel to jihadi hotspot, and reported to authorities for suspected radicalization by a credible source; but, then the attacker purchases airline tickets with cash, travels from an unstable country, during a busy travel period, during a culturally significant time period, traveling significant distances with virtually no luggage. Then after successfully evading security but only for a simple twist of fate very nearly downs a commercial airliner and killing hundreds of people on Christmas Day; Janet Napolitano the US Secretary of Homeland Security declares “the system worked”! Is her analysis/conclusion defensible by any measure?

The link provided has a video of this interview, give it a look and see if you agree that if there is nothing else clear it’s that Napolitano personifies this administrations change in posture from the forward leaning/preventative/ military of the previous administration adopted after 9/11 to this administration’s defensive PC/ /after the fact investigate prosecute/ law enforcement posture. And with regard to that question how many innocent people murdered can such an administration stand? If this attack had succeeded in killing hundreds of US citizens on Christmas Day could the administration survive politically?