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Moment feds stormed onto Chicago train to investigate signs of nuclear threat triggered by passenger
Daily Mail ^ | 3/16/13

Posted on 03/17/2013 5:54:16 AM PDT by Libloather

Federal agents stormed at train at Chicago’s Ogilvie Transportation Center to investigate a possible nuclear triggered by a passenger who had taken a nuclear stress test early in the day.

CBS 2′s photojournalist Lana Hinshaw-Klann was at the scene and used a cell-phone camera to record agents in action, the news channel reported.

The agents on the 5:04pm Union Pacific West line were reportedly members of the TSA VIPR team and were carrying hand-held nuclear-detection devices that picked up a reading.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; metra; nuclear; train; tsa; vipr
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To: Libloather

Here’s a question no one has bothered to ask: what are the odds of a TSA “VIPR” team showing up at a Chicago train station on a Saturday?

From what I’ve read, there are only 37 of these teams across the country. They have been previously spotted at highway checkpoints (such as the “training exercise” along I-20 in Atlanta in 2011, where they were searching all trucks at the height of rush hour) and more recently, at some of the NFL playoff games. They are an asset that seems to deploy only for high-profile events, in response to perceived threats and for training.

I’ll assume that one of the teams is based in the Chicago area. But it’s hard to believe they would be training on a Friday or Saturday evening, given the costs of overtime, comp time, etc. It’s a fair question to ask the real reason behind their deployment and the actual threat they were looking for when this attorney triggered their sensors.


21 posted on 03/17/2013 8:02:41 AM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: ExNewsExSpook
Here’s a question no one has bothered to ask: what are the odds of a TSA “VIPR” team showing up at a Chicago train station on a Saturday? From what I’ve read, there are only 37 of these teams across the country. They have been previously spotted at highway checkpoints (such as the “training exercise” along I-20 in Atlanta in 2011, where they were searching all trucks at the height of rush hour) and more recently, at some of the NFL playoff games. They are an asset that seems to deploy only for high-profile events, in response to perceived threats and for training.

Probably based near some of the bigger hubs as they would make juicier targets.

22 posted on 03/17/2013 9:21:50 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: KarlInOhio

They called it ‘nuclear’. I’ve had EKGs and regular treadmlls. This one involved an injection and I had to be scanned in some machine like and MRI scan. I knew it was nuclear, but they did not give me any cautions about it.


23 posted on 03/17/2013 3:26:11 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: Libloather

Sounds like a case of stuned beeber on the loose.


24 posted on 03/17/2013 3:33:04 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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To: KarlInOhio

Dang Columbo, you’re already on the case!!


25 posted on 03/17/2013 3:34:10 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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