[Sub-Driver]

Wonderful.......

[Morpheus2009]

Just when you thought they didn’t need to scan you any more intrusively...

[yldstrk]

I call BS
They just want to be able to grope and photograph and depants white grandmothers

[Psalm 144]

Perhaps this would be more convincing if it was released by the Ministry of Truth.

[Twotone]

And now we can expect to be stripped & have our operation scars probed by the TSA...

[Pecos]

Does this mean EVEN MORE invasive TSA searches? That’s a level of groping that deserves at least dinner and a movie.

[Roccus]

The TSA could easily counter this threat......simply ban all humans and/or animals from air travel.

[Jedidah]

So they implant a bomb in Fluffy, stow him in a crate in cargo, and Ahmed in coach sets it off with his cell.

Cheers.

[WoofDog123]

as far as I am concerned a central function of TSA is to accustom americans to dealings with fedgov where the citizen has NO rights, and there is NO accountability mechanism in place to deal with abuse of power by tsa in 99% of cases, and even then only if recorded (which they may ban).

[VRWCmember]

A U.S. security official told POLITICO that the threat is seen as more “likely to come from overseas rather than domestically ....”

... so we will therefore redouble our efforts to more intrusively scan, probe, and violate US citizens, especially small children and feeble senior citizens.

[KoRn]

I’d be much more afraid of someone near the airport with a shoulder fired rocket, or .50 Cal machine gun. I’m actually quite surprised that such a thing hasn’t yet happened(that we know of).

[Lazlo in PA]

These Human Bombs are nothing new. They used to have one that could be set off with a Wafer Thin Mint.

[Paine in the Neck]

This is just an attempt to scare off state legislatures that may be considering criminalizing TSA patdowns.

[Logic n' Reason]

Well now...that is going to be really messy!

One can only imagine the goop caused by a faulty explosive whereupon detonation, only the blasting cap explodes!!!

EEEEEEeeeeewwww!

[rdcbn]

You can screen and screen but eventually something will get by. Bush's approach to the problem was turn this into a military and national security issue and to put the burden on the states that shelter terrorists.

This worked well for 7 years.

Conventional law enforcement does not work as well with terrorists as it does with shop lifters.

[ChildOfThe60s]

BS. This is only to further their intimidation agenda.

They would like to force *everyone* to be scanned.

Also, note the timing of the announcement. Comes on the heels of the PR disaster of the poopy diapers. That is not a coincidence.

And all of this from the people that refuse to look at the prime suspects of terrorism.

[jonrick46]

The terrorists are stuck in their R and D part of it. They can’t practice their technique on pigs and dogs because they are unclean. Sheep? They need all the sheep they can get for food.

[Sprite518]

This is coming from the same group that will let Muslims with expired passports and plane tickets walk through, but then search a 95 year old wheel chair bound widow of a WWII vet and insist on searching her diaper.

The TSA needs to be dissolved.

[Tennessee Nana]

OK

so now theyre not only going to grope Grandma

theyre going to give her a public colonoscopy

[antiRepublicrat]

I've seen this movie.

[CodeToad]

So, everyone must have an X-ray before boarding? Body cavity searches, too?

The airline industry is already dying, this might just go ahead and kill it off.