Originally Posted by
FlyingUnderTheRadar
While I believe this methodology to be true. Pistole made comments last Nov saying that the bomb was actually external:
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/11/22/ts...avity-searches
But Pistole said that current intelligence does not support the threat of bombs being placed in body cavities, and he disputed reports that an al-Qaida-linked terrorist last year used a bomb placed inside his rectum in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef. Pistole, a longtime veteran of the FBI, said reports that Abdullah Asieri had secreted the bomb inside a body cavity were "inaccurate" and not supported by the forensics he had seen.
would this be the same intelligence that ALLOWED the underwear bomber to board a plane in the first place?
Putting Pissy and intelligence in the same sentence is about on par with any attempt to put TSA and competent security measures in the same sentence...
Even if terrorists did resort to cavity-type bombs, Pistole said that current screening procedures would be able to pick them up because it would require a device outside the body to initiate the explosion. "That's what the [Advanced Imaging Technology] machines pick up," he said.
Pistole acknowledged the concern, however, that many of the devices that could be used to initiate an explosion, such as a cell phone, might not immediately draw suspicion, even if spotted by screeners.
translated, "we would discover it if it has a pushbutton but we have no effing clue about the device when it is triggered remotely with, oh, say a cell phone."