Somehow I don’t think you can claim this: Napolitano: “The system worked”.
When this was what saved the plane: Officials: Only A Failed Detonator Saved Northwest Flight.
Really, what system would Napolitano be referring to?
Perhaps this is some new meaning of the word “worked” to which I was previously unaware?
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December 27th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Napolitano apparently left whatever sense she had in Arizona before joining the administration. That’s a gaffe on the order of “Mission Accomplished.”
I think Bruce Schneier is right that only two things have worked since 9/11: securing the cockpit doors and changing the paradigm (as you put it) for passengers and cabin crew from “let the hijackers do whatever they want since they want to fly to Cuba or play DB Cooper” to “lay the smackdown on any hijackers and ask questions later.” The scary thing is that both of these things should have happened when we first uncovered the “bomb US airplanes” plot in the Philippines in the 1990s…
December 28th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
That’s a gaffe on the order of “Mission Accomplished.”
It was a stupid thing to say, certainly, but not even close to the “mission accomplished” order of madness.
Napolitano was guilty of not being too swift on her feet during a TV interview and excessive spin got the better of her.
The fact that Napolitano clarified her words today on numerous TV outlets and that both the Administration and Congress are conducting immediate investigations into the failure shows that they are taking the security breach seriously.
“Mission Accomplished” was a deliberate propaganda strategy whose main problem was that the Administration actually BELIEVED their own propaganda. This policy based on propaganda, of course, resulted in millions of lives wasted and billions of dollars squandered.
A stupid slip-up on TV that was quickly clarified doesn’t come near to an actual propaganda campaign that guided ill-conceived policy.