How the hell would she know?

Janet Napolitino says terrorist bomber not part of a wider conspiracy. Speaking from an undisclosed vacation hideaway, our Homeland Security Expert reassures us. You bet, lady.

I like this part:

Ms. Napolitano was pressed on CNN as well as other Sunday news programs why Mr. Abdulmutallab, whose name was in the American intelligence community’s central repository of information on known or suspected international terrorists, had been allowed to board the trans-Atlantic flight in Amsterdam. Mr. Abdulmutallab, the son of a prominent Nigerian banker, was put in the database last month because his father had recently warned officials at the United States Embassy in Nigeria that he was concerned about his son’s increasingly extremist religious views.

“You have to understand that you need information that is specific and credible if you are going to actually bar someone from air travel,” Ms. Napolitano said on CNN. “He was on a general list, which over half a million people — everybody had access to it. But there was not the kind of credible information, in the sense derogatory information, that would move him up the list.”

If Miss Napolitino ever digs her nose out of whatever she’s snuffling out there in the desert, she might want to try something as simple as Googling “Mistaken Identity No fly list” or checking Wikipedia for the same term. She’ll learn that infants are on this list, as well as businessmen and politicians. Or she could accompany my mother and me on our next international flight and watch the scrutiny and manpower expended on searching wheelchair-bound ladies. We are ruled by ignorant morons.

UPDATE: Of course, we are in the present state of affairs at least in part because of the Democrat’s favorite tool, the ACLU, which has fought the “no-fly list” since its inception, and is proud of it. A a nation, we voted to have the ACLU run our national security, and we got it. Lucky us.