HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost Napolitano is the agency head. The TSA has been without a head because DeMint is holding up the Obama choice because he may allow unions. Now he says the Dems are trying to rush it through. They wont even consider him til jan. 19th. DeMint should take a piece of the blame.
Still the whole thing is overblown. If a guy wants to blow himself up to disrupt airline travel, he could do it at the gates. He could do it at the ticket office. If he wants to give up his life to set off a real bomb ,he would be tough to stop.
However if your claim is administrative failure, preventing the presidents choice to get seated is certainly a solid contribution.
Napolitano had nothing to do with that report. It was comissioned by George W Bush.
I don’t see any smoking guns at this point. There will be an accounting from all agencies as to why this most basic of security issues had not already been addressed.
How long ago did Obama make his TSA nomination?
September of this year was when Obama nominated him. Obama did not seem to be in a rush.
The Democrats didn’t vote him out of committee until mid-November.
You can’t blame this on DeMint when the Democrats themselves did not act as if there was a huge rush.
And her response to disasters will be better because, unlike Brownie, she has the ways and means to New Orleans.
I think Obama is going to blame “the previous administration” just like he does on everything else… seems like a no-brainer to me.
He only does that when it actually is the previous administration’s fault.
I am ever so amused by the idea that the last eight years don’t count, and causality ceases whenever a new president takes office - but that aside, I don’t think Obama has said word one about this screw being the fault of the Bush administration.
C’mon, it’s been months since we invaded any new countries. How can you claim you’re fighting terrorism if you’re not invading anybody?
Here’s the deal: If Napolitano goes, it’s because there is an unspoken code that when something bad happens on a CEO’s watch, the CEO takes the blame for it. “The Buck Stops Here” actually means something.
The heads of large organizations are held accountable for organizational failure, because the fear of that motivates them to do a good job. Napolitano, and Chertoff, and Ashcroft, and Holder, and all the rest of them have to know that a major screw-up on their watch will lead to having their heads put on a platter. And this is as it should be. They have to know that every decision they make, every bit of time they take off from doing oversight, could bite them hard in the ass if something goes wrong. It keeps 'em on their toes.
Then again, it might be nothing of the kind, but more in the nature of throwing something of conciliatory nature to the wolves, like the resignation of Van Jones.
The United States as been giving military assistance to Yemen.
Which isn’t anything like the same thing, but then my sarcasm detector might be on the fritz.
I don’t know what sarcasm has to do with it. The United States has directly attacked Al Qaeda in Yemen.
From the Timesonline:
**Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a terrorist cell led by a former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden, issued a statement saying that the failed attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a response to American-backed airstrikes on the group in Yemen this month. **
The recent US terrorist attack was in response to military involvement in Yemen.
Which is quite different from what happened in Iraq, is my point. It’s not anything like an invasion.
Hey, I’m with you, we should be able to bomb whomever we like as long as the local government is OK with it. It’s Al Queda that needs the convincing.
So what’s the official US policy regarding hostile groups in countries that don’t cooperate?
Gee, Oama says all these attacks are “isolated instances”-and Janet Napolitano doesn’t know why a reported terrorist (turned in by his own father) bwasn’t checked out.
Will it be another “isolated instance” when a few hundred americans are murdered?
Of course, we need to be sure that we have sufficient evidence to prosecute these murderer-Eric Holder says so!
Be very afraid!
Of course, we need to make sure we don’t violate any of these poor muslim’s right!
What are “all these attacks?”
Why does the idea of this guy having a trial and getting life in a Federal Supermax prison offend Conservatives so much?