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Napolitano: 'The System Worked'

GOP piles on White House over near-bombing on Detroit flight

By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 27, 2009 10:28 AM CST

(Newser) – The Detroit terror incident took center stage on the Sunday talk show circuit today, with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano coming out swinging as the GOP blamed the White House for the lapse. "The system worked," she told State of the Union,... Read full story »

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