So says the Obama administration’s Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.  This, of course, after she previously said that the system worked just fine.  Kind of a variation on the old John Kerry “It worked before it didn’t work” type of logic.

The newly exposed shortcomings in airline security became woefully apparent on Christmas Day when a Nigerian terrorist was allowed to board a plane bound for the United States carrying an explosive mixture concealed on his person and attempted to blow up himself and the passenger filled airliner as it landed in Detroit.  This even though his name was on at least some of the “no fly” warning lists available to both airlines and foreign security forces.  

Airlines and TSA inspectors are now redoubling their efforts at domestic airports in a show of increased security.  Airlines have taken to forcing their passengers to remain in their seats for the final hour of some flights and are not allowing anyone access to their carryon luggage during that time. TSA inspectors are increasing inspection of carryon bags as well as the passengers themselves.   The problem is, of course, this is all just for show.  These new measures will make getting through the airport more time consuming, boarding the plane more frustrating and flying on one even more inconvenient, but they will do absolutely nothing to improve security.  That’s because the problem is not with the inspection process but rather with the security administration management and the incredibly naïve, passive mindset of the Obama administration.

This neophyte community activist qua president still does not believe, or at least does not understand, that there are actually people whose only goal in life is to kill Americans.  While Obama vowed this past week to “do everything that we can to keep America safe” it took him nine months before he even nominated anyone to head up the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) or the Customs and Border Protection Agency.  Both positions remain vacant almost a year into his presidency because neither of these nominations have even been scheduled for review hearings by Congress.  Both the House and Senate have been so completely consumed and single focused on ramming through the ObamaCare healthcare debacle that they have had time for nothing else.  Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead

Much like the Fort Hood tragedy, the Obama administration is now even questioning whether this was indeed an act of terrorism in the broad sense or just the act of a lone misfit.  Further complicating their refusal to accept reality is the fact that an Al Qaeda spinoff group in Yemen is claiming responsibility for the attempted bombing.  This terrorist group harbored in Yemen is led by two jihadists that were released from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility and sent to Saudi Arabia to be rehabilitated.  They apparently didn’t take well to the rehabilitation and have gone back to doing what got them sent to Guantanamo in the first place.  Furthermore the unsuccessful bomber onboard the Northwest Airlines flight has been in communication with the same Imam as the Fort Hood shooter.

I have no doubt that the next explanation for these terrorist acts will be to blame the Bush administration for locking up these poor misunderstood Muslims in the first place.

All I know is that this is the second major act of Muslim terrorism carried out on American soil within the last three months under the administration of a president who said he would resolve these issues through dialog and opening the lines of communication.  If Obama was looking for a response to his impassioned plea to Muslims I think it’s safe to say he got it.  Could it be that Dick Cheney, the whipping boy of the Democrat Party, knows what the hell he’s talking about?

I wonder if ObamaCare covers getting blown up on an airplane?

It has got to be tough for this accomplished campaigner to actually have nothing left to campaign for. He is like a fish out of water. Oh sure, he’s the President of the United States. But doing the job isn’t anywhere near as much fun as running for it. It is far easier and more politically expedient for this thoughtful self-biographer to lay the groundwork for the upcoming midterm election and then his reelection campaign of new promises than it is to make the hard choices of the chief executive and stand on the principles he has already explained.

Last week this president of hope and change bowed down to the internal pressures within the Democrat Party and abandoned his previous position that no prosecutions would take place regarding the interrogation techniques used to garner information after 9-11. His new and anything but improved position is that his liberal political hack Attorney General Eric Holder will make the decision as to prosecutions. Holder who lobbied for forgiveness of murderers from the FALN has already discussed his willingness to prosecute the dastardly interrogators from the Bush era.

Only two days before this new position was announced, the president’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was on ABC’s Sunday morning show “This Week” with ex-Clinton communication director George Stephanopoulos. He said of the president “”He believes that people in good faith were operating with the guidance they were provided. They shouldn’t be prosecuted. … It’s time for reflection. It’s not a time to use our energy in looking back in any sense of anger and retribution.”

Not a time for retribution? Guess again Rahm!!! Retribution is all the Democrats have to run on.

They certainly don’t want the American people to look at who was holding the national checkbook and formulating the national budget for the two years prior to the current recession. They don’t want even the possibility that someone might ask how we let Fannie May and Freddie Mac get into a position to collapse the entire global economy without any oversight. And they really don’t want anybody to question the trillions of dollar in new spending that is and will continue to have absolutely no effect on stimulating the economy. Hammering away at the Bush administration is the only answer for keeping the national attention deflected enough to stay in power.

But at what cost?

It was the rather innocuous act on the part of the Clinton administration of installing the wall of silence between intelligence agencies that allowed the covert terrorist cells to formulate a plan, learn to fly jetliners without the need to learn how to land them and carry out test runs that led to that fateful morning in September 2001.

This chillingly vengeful political maneuver on the part of the Obama administration will have equally disastrous consequences for the future of intelligence gathering and terrorist interrogation. Is waterboarding an extreme measure? Yes it is. Is it as extreme as flying planeloads of people into crowded office buildings and government offices? I’m voting no on that one.

No one will need to ask how we allowed another brutal, murderous attack to take place. We will only need to look at the interrogation records to find that the attorneys for the terrorists we had in custody counseled their clients to plead the 5th Amendment when it came to discussing future plans of attack on America.

I am certain that the Democrats will be all too eager to blame long held resentments that the misunderstood terrorists had against the Bush administration as the reason for the successful assault. But the real reason will be that the interrogators hands will have been tied tighter than those of the terrorist being questioned.

It’s really easy to connect the dots on the how and why this change in presidential opinion is taking place. It’s also pretty easy to see where the last dot of this timeline is located.

Would this president and the Democrat Party pursue prosecution of interrogators at the expense of national security?

Insert your answer here. I know mine.