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Old Aug 15, 2009 | 12:09 am
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mbstone
 
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Originally Posted by Spiff
What I suspect really happened is that law enforcement wanted some "probable cause" that would hold up in court for a search that was outside the scope of airport/aircraft security, so an alarm for explosives at the CTX and/or nitroglycerin at the ETD was "triggered".

I hope the suspects' attorneys very carefully cross-examine all those involved with this search. I have a feeling it was contrived, to say the least.
Exactly. The cops had a wiretap, or an informant. Having the ETD "alert" on micrograms of LSD is the high-tech equivalent of "We stopped you because your taillight is burned out."
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