After being virtually laughed out of the room, Janet Napolitano and fellow accountability escape artists have now retreated from their claims, that their airport security systems are just peachy, and admitted, as far as self-serving bureaucrats are capable, what this blog has been shouting. Clothed in their, "Well, maybe things aren't as good as they could be" admission is the plain fact that the performance of TSA and foreign security personnel in the Northwest 253 incident was abysmal.
The problem isn't "the system," Folks, it's the people!
Yet, still they don't get it. They talk about improving their detection machines and refining the no-fly lists. Bullshit! These have nothing to do with their failure to stop an individual who should have been stopped, regardless of the machines, regardless of the lists. They were passively sitting on their butts, waiting for machines and lists to spot terrorists, instead of watching, instead of thinking, instead of PROFILING.
They do not need machines and lists to tell them to pat down, even strip-search a young African male with a ticket paid for with cash and no checked baggage.
What is wrong with these idiots?
