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."And you know what? I can actually see the argument here for once. This guy should have been on the no-fly list. He never should have been allowed on that flight out of Amsterdam. He got on board there with this device. That's a mistake.
Asked by CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union" how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who has been charged with trying to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the jet, Napolitano responded: "We're asking the same questions."
Napolitano added that there was "no suggestion that [the suspect] was improperly screened."
It became a full-fledged error in judgment when Napolitano said "the system worked." It didn't work. Nobody believes that, left or right.
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