UPDATE: Passenger Lights Explosive on Delta Flight

By GottaLaff

A Delta Airbus 330 airliner sits on a runway at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan in this video grab made December 25, 2009. REUTERS/WDIV TV/Handout

Here's an update on the attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight. The explosive device failed. Original post here.

Via CBS:

"This does not strike us as having the earmarks of any kind of well-planned or well-orchestrated attack," a senior security official told CBS News justice correspondent Bob Orr.

White House spokesman Bill Burton, who is with President Obama on vacation in Hawaii said that Mr. Obama was notified of the incident this morning and convened a secure conference call with John Brennan, his Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism Adviser, and Denis McDonough, NSS Chief of Staff.

A senior administration official tells CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer that the incident was "an attempted act of terrorism." The administration is not raising the terror threat level, but President Obama is receiving constant updates on the situation.

The official declined to elaborate on how a man on a U.S. terrorist watch list was able to board the airliner. The official said the U.S. plans "different things at different airports" in response to the incident. He declined to elaborate.

He added that the U.S. is "in close touch with Dutch counterparts" because the suspect boarded the airliner in Amsterdam.

A high-ranking law enforcement official told Orr that the suspect apparently used a syringe to inject a chemical into powder located near his groin, a technique not seen in previous attempted attacks. It's possible, the source said, that this incident was a test of whether the materials could pass screening and how effective they might be at causing damage.

President Obama was not clearing brush, nor was he reading My Pet Goat. He did not ignore the situation, and he knows how to use one that thing-- Oh what's it called? Oh yeah-- a brain.

Being alert and involved is the new normal.

That's change we can believe in.

Of course, the wingies are fully supportive of their commander in chief in time of war:

the dirtbag in chief will never do anything. if he isnt muslim then he’s just a simpleton. he’s not at war with the scum but they are at war with us. he doesn’t get it that its his Job to protect the citizens of this nation. what a treacherous dumb guy we got stuck with, and all the character of a bedbug.

UPDATE:

Just now on CNN (which was about 2 hours late on this story), Ed Henry said that Obama and Homeland Security would be taking specific measures for airline security, rather than just "some color code".

Yeah, those charts worked so well for us. Of course, politicizing terrorism benefited BushCo like nobody's biz.