Commentary

Terror and Honesty

By Troy Senik
Thursday, January 14 2010

From the second that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano assured Americans that “the system worked” in the aftermath of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempt to take down a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, it was obvious that the national debate over terrorism was slipping down the rabbit hole to a world of talking points and wishful thinking.

Not much better was President Obama’s entirely unsubstantiated declaration a few days later that Adulmutallab was “an isolated extremist.” Combined with his statement in…

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