To the editor:

After the Christmas Day near-terror tragedy on the plane to Detroit, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had the gall to say that “the system worked.” Only a self-serving bureaucrat could say such a thing.

So now the “system is going to work” at airports where innocent kids and elderly and ordinary travelers are going to have dogs sniffing through their things and people going through their suitcases, not really knowing what to look for, exponentially increasing the inconvenience. People will huff and puff and say, “Well it’s to keep us safe.” Sure thing.

This is the punishment for having the passengers and crew discover the terrorist and disarm him. Makes me wonder when he’ll sue the airline and everyone on board for touching his stuff!

Janet Napolitano should already be packed up and gone, with someone who has at least read “The Looming Tower,” by Lawrence Wright, being brought in to keep us safe.