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Exclusive: TSA Issues Secret Warning on ‘Catastrophic’ Threat to Aviation
The Intercept ^
| 2/26/15
| Jana Winter
Posted on 02/26/2015 1:02:09 PM PST by illiac
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Well, the TSA may as well tell that we have trouble spotting certain things....
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:02:09 PM PST
by
illiac
To: illiac
Ah,,,, prior post just beat me....sorry....
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:03:14 PM PST
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: illiac
Too bad Congress hasn’t issued a threat to disolve TSA.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:03:59 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: illiac
Wow, this revelation comes out just as the DHS is threatened with losing some of its funding.
What a fascinating coincidence.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:07:13 PM PST
by
jonatron
(Land of the Free, Home of the Brave)
To: illiac
Does that mean (those who have converted to) the Amish way of life are to be watched at all cost!?
To: Paladin2
Only if the Thermite burned though something important OR if the rest the aluminum of the airframe caught fire.
other wise its just a hole in the airframe which except in hollywood is really not all that destructive to a modern aircraft
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:07:26 PM PST
by
Bidimus1
To: illiac
TSA need to get a deranged terrorist to do their dirty work, so that they can get their funding.
Otherwise, they will have to do it themselves.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:09:33 PM PST
by
grumpygresh
(Democrats & GOPe delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
To: illiac
according to a classified document obtained by The Intercept... Dec 14 2014. This threat is nothing new. I suspect the report was created and now "leaked" as part of TSA/Homeland-security's effort to get a clean funding bill.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:09:34 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: illiac
The TSA metal detectors and x-rays can’t find these two metals?
Sounds fishy.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:11:45 PM PST
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: Bidimus1
This used to be treason . Now its just the obama administration trying to save amnesty with a spending ratification.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:11:58 PM PST
by
iowacornman
(Republicans are worthless)
To: illiac
TSA said it is unlikely to spot an easy-to-assemble thermite-based incendiary device during security screening procedures, so we’ll just have to keep all Muslims off.
oops, guess they can’t do that.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:12:03 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: illiac
I guess the TSA watched the episode of NCIS where someone used thermite to sabotage a USN vessel.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:13:31 PM PST
by
certrtwngnut
(The middle east is where the enemy of my enemy is my enemy!)
To: illiac
Nothing to fear from the ROP.......
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:13:37 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
To: certrtwngnut
Well if it was on TV then it must be true.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:13:59 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: illiac
Well, duh.
Anyone who watches mythbusters could have told them that.
The only way to really make air travel safer is to screen for muslims.
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:14:17 PM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Jim Robinson
Best and most practical solution.
Amplify all profiling of Obama’s buddies!
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:15:25 PM PST
by
miserare
("Reverence for life--life of all kinds--is the first principle of civilization." ~~Schweitzer)
To: illiac
Thermite is pretty old stuff. Rust, of course, is iron. I’m surprised a metal detector wouldn’t spot it. A bag of aluminum powder would be tough to conceal, I would think.
There are no extinguishers for class D fires (burning metals). The solution to a burning helicopter on deck was to clear it of people and then push it off the flight deck.
I could stand there and watch it burn until you lost sight of it as it sank.
To: certrtwngnut
or “Burn Notice” to burn through an engine block...
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:15:45 PM PST
by
hadaclueonce
(Ethanol is stupid.)
To: VanShuyten
Really sounds fishy.
Hey terrorists this might be a good idea for you to try!
DUH
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:18:41 PM PST
by
Uversabound
(Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
To: jonatron
it would be just like the central planners to sacrifice a few thousand Americans in a horrible plane crash into a building, arena, racetrack etc just to show other Americans how horrible the pubs are for demanding accountability in govt expenditures....
would not put it past them...
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:20:05 PM PST
by
cherry
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