[null and void]

*sigh*

[Allegra]

I beg their freakin' pardon???

Say what????

[theDentist]

Between 2 departments, neither had the common sense to hold this guy.

[Thombo2]

What a screw up.Guess it's too late to do anything now(?).I hope they at the least keep track of this person.Sounds like it was a "dry run".

[OpusatFR]

"Hoffman said Reece doesn't understand why he was transferred "when it seems clear from the onset of the investigation that he didn't have probable cause to detain anybody and that his actions were consistent with the law and HPD policy.""

Another dry run. They keep probing the screening procedures.

[PogySailor]

Hollowed out shoes and a makesift timer?

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

[NonValueAdded]

A search of the man's baggage revealed a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran, the report said. A screener examined the man's shoes and determined that the "entire soles of both shoes were gutted out."

No explosive material was detected, the report states. A police officer was summoned and questioned the man, examined his identification, shoes and the clock, then cleared him for travel, according to the report.

A TSA screener disagreed with the officer, saying "the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself," the report says.

"It's only a box cutter, let him go." This is just freaking unbelievable! That dude should be in a holding cell while his life was picked apart to determine what he was up to. The entire plane should have been searched and the passengers rescreened to see if somehow other components slipped through.

[Yo-Yo]

Duplicate post. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663051/posts

[kitkat]

Are our laws so protective of privacy (thank you, NY Times), that we release a passenger under the following conditions?:

Has a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it
Has a copy of the Quran
Shoes gutted out
Denies having a lap top when X-ray reveals that he has one
Has all the earmarks of a dry run

I am stunned.

[Spiff]

A search of the man's baggage revealed a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran, the report said. A screener examined the man's shoes and determined that the "entire soles of both shoes were gutted out." No explosive material was detected, the report states. A police officer was summoned and questioned the man, examined his identification, shoes and the clock, then cleared him for travel, according to the report. A TSA screener disagreed with the officer, saying "the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself," the report says.

Clearly a test run.

This guy should have been allowed to fly and then tailed mercilessly until his partners and supporters could be found out. Then we could have busted the whole terrorist cell that is doing test runs in preparation for some future attack.

Actually, that may be the case here but the press and others made a big deal of this guy being "cleared for travel" while he was carrying nothing that was actually a threat to the flight.

Just thinking out loud here.