Friends,
I haven’t been paying attention to the news over the last few days, but returned to learn of 23-year old Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane over Christmaswith a package of plastic explosive attached to his, um, package. Sure, the passengers did a heroic job of halting Mr. Abdullanutjob’s attempts to correct the problem of his bomb not properly blowing up his crotch, but the Secretary of Homeland Security spent the day on the Sunday chat shows saying that “the system worked”? I suppose Secretary Nepolitano has a point, if the system now consists of malfunctioning devices and passengers needing to forcibly subdue terrorists to save their own skins. It appears that there’s now no need for TSA in this new system, which is good if they’re going to increase security to such an extent to close this particular barn door.
Heckuva job, Janet.
– bob
