Who's dumber?

So by now everyone's most likely heard of the Christmas-day terrorist attempt.  If you haven't the short version is a Nigerian kid became a fundamentalist, built a bomb, smuggled it onto a plane by stitching it into his pants, and then was too stupid to figure out how to make it go boom.

To make matters worse, the security types had been warned about this guy - by his own family.  That's right - they (they, as in the TSA and their respective counter-parts in Europe, the UK and Canada) knew he was talking about doing something like this, and didn't do a single thing to prevent it from happening.  Even though he was on watch lists, they let him ON THE PLANE.

And the only reason something bad did not go down was our terrorist-wannabe lacked the brain power to figure out how to set off his little fire cracker.

In response to this there has been a new "security" crackdown.  The new rulez:

1. only 1 carry-on bag
   
2. no using anything, or getting up to pee, 1 hour before landing
3. you must be patted down by security before boarding.

The end effect of these new rules - long lines at the airport, cancelled flights, irritated passengers, and the harassment of a guy who had the misfortune of being both of the same nationality as our wanna-be terrorist, and also really having to pee.

Now I fail to see how any of the above, except perhaps #3, could enhance our security while flying.  If anything, it seems to be a knee-jerk reaction intended to distract people from the utter failure by those supposedly entrusted with our security.  To make matters worse, the news industry seems to have swallowed this hook, line and sinker.

So tell me, who is dumber?

1. The terrorist, who couldn't blow up his own bomb
2. The security forces who failed to stop a guy they were warned about well in advance, and who had this guy on their security lists
   
3. The news papers, for failing to pick up on #2, and instead are reporting near-solely on the crap done by the morons responsible for point #2 to assure the rest of us that they aren't truly incompetent.