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Monday, December 28, 2009

Morning Roundup - December 28th

The Secretary appeared on several morning news shows today to discuss Friday's attempted terrorist attack and the resulting increase in security measures for the airline sector:

NBC's "Today Show" - link to video

MSNBC's Morning Joe - link to video

CBS News - link to blog post and video

Fox News - link to video

CNN - link to article

ABC News - link to article

There are no public events scheduled for today.

Labels: Secretary Napolitano

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12 Comments:

At December 28, 2009 3:54 PM , Anonymous said...

Good work Brownie!!
At December 28, 2009 10:29 PM , Anonymous said...

Napolitano needs to resign in disgrace. She has been more concerned with Christian right-wing veterans than the Islamic extremists. "The system worked", she states. The underwear terrorist had no passport, paid with cash, had no luggage, and his father warned our government that he was someone who needed to be watched for terrorist ties. Please tell me how the system worked when he stepped on that plane? Please explain it to me because I would not be able to board the plane and I'm a red-blooded American who faithfully served my country for 21 years. If Napolitano doesn't resign, she needs to be fired. I will be contacting my elected representatives.
At December 29, 2009 1:34 AM , Stan Slonkosky said...

It is time for Janet Napolitano to resign or be fired for incompetence. She is a continuing embarrassment to the citizens of the United States and makes us look like fools in the eyes of the world, especially the Islamo-Nazis who want to destroy our country.
At December 29, 2009 8:22 AM , Anonymous said...

Why is it that El Al doesn't have muslim extremists trying to blow up their planes as they get ready to land in Israel? Maybe we need to send the Secretary over to Tel Aviv and take a few classes from the experts.
Maybe we need to stop bailing out all these businesses that are too big to fail and spend some money securing our transportion system.
By the way, When a man can sit in a crouded plane flying over American soil and set himself on fire with explosives sewn in his underwear and I can't even get a fingernail clipper on a flight, then the system is not working.
At December 29, 2009 10:03 AM , Anonymous said...

This is not a racial slur as you mention in your rules. The problem on Christmas day lies with your rules on the ground, not in the air. many of us who travel , our our rights are being violated already. Why not have a separate line or room with people who look suspicious with Muslim names, clothes, etc? Your checking grandmothers, business people, young mothers and making 2 mil people who travel evryday suffer because you are profiling the wrong people. Go over the list again of 911 suspects, are their American names on that list ???
At December 29, 2009 10:39 AM , Anonymous said...

The terrorist should have had his visa revoked when his father volunteered information to the U.S. embassy about his son's activities. We should stop freely issuing visas to terrorists and not allow them into our country.
At December 29, 2009 3:39 PM , Anonymous said...

Janet Napolitano is clueless and I dont feel safe with her as the head of the DHS.

After the attempted terrorist attack in Detroit Janet said the TSA screening process worked. - What???

Them the next day Janet says the TSA screening processed failed miserably. - Huh??

Anyone who is this confused should not be in charge of protecting the USA.

Fire Janet !!!
At December 29, 2009 9:36 PM , Anonymous said...

Thank God , this boy didnt do his wish against us.
THATS WHY GEORGE BUSH WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST COUNTERTERRORISM LEADER, OBAMA AND OTHER WORLD LEADERS SHOULD LEARN A LESSON FROM HIM!ISLAM OF WHATEVER SHADE OR COLOUR IS A TERRORIST RELIGION!!!!!!!.
At December 30, 2009 1:35 PM , Anonymous said...

The Secretary
DHL,

Comments here are directed strictly at Madam Secretary
in charge of National Security, following events of
December 25,2009,in which a Nigerian attempted
to explode a bomb in a USA bound flight.

It is obvious from events of December 25,2009,
that issues of security checks for all USA in-bound
flights can no longer be relied on foreign nationals
of airliners at international airports alone.
More importantly,the current co-ordinated span
of activities obscure pinpointing deficiency
or ineffectiveness of discharge of responsibilities
to a particular person alone,left alone a foreign
country.

Thus, the thought that appropriate authority
expeditiously moves to work out multilateral
security agreements with other nations within
the frame work of training American citizens as
'officers for special assignments' and positioning
each of these officers at every foreign USA- bound
air transportation check point around the world
to ensure a well and reliable co-ordinated security
scrutiny of all incoming air passengers into the
country with foreign and national airlines
at all international airports servicing America
interest.

Only in this way,can a single individual be held
more accountable on very serious lapses typical
of what happened last week.
Though economic cost is a certainty,the price of
effective and trusted security checks that guarantees
safety holds no compromise.

Martin Atayo
(Technocrat)
Washington, DC 20013
At December 30, 2009 4:34 PM , osha 10 30 hour online training course said...

What a round up.
At December 30, 2009 11:02 PM , Anonymous said...

Don't we have an ex military general somewhere who should and could be overseeing Homeland Security? I think anyone at the Pentagon or even the FBI would do a better job than some croonie appointed politician. We are talking innocent civilian lives including women and children at risk and DC still wants to play politics? This is a very sad situation our government is in and there isn't any "change". Through them all out and vote against every incumbent with more than two terms period!! Enough is enough!!
At February 2, 2010 10:04 PM , Government Records said...

I think we shall train TSA people in a smarter way. We spend lots of efforts and money for homeland security, but we still don't fell secure enough. On the other hand, an airport became a chaos just because a foreign student kissed his girlfriend.