ABSTRACT
In his election campaign, President Barack Obama made several statements about terrorism. He dissociated himself from George W. Bush’s “holistic approach” (whatever this meant) and the rhetoric about the “global war on terrorism.” He promised a more substantial “security architecture.” Head of this new architecture was the unfortunate Janet Napolitano, a former governor of Arizona, who went on record saying that the system had worked well after the barely failed attempt to bomb a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
