TSA chief John Pistole today met with reporters from the Christian Science Monitor. Pistole discussed why his agency’s aggressive screening techniques don’t include body-cavity searches …yet.

TSA Chief Pistole:

“We’re in the risk management business, being a risk-based intelligence organization. The information that I’ve seen out in public about body cavities for bombs I think is perhaps not accurate. There’s been reporting of one incident involving the Saudi Deputy Administrator of Interior. The forensics on that are not dis-positive and there is stronger indication that it was actually an underwear type bomb strapped to his upper thigh rather than a body cavity. That being, said even if it is a body cavity you still have to be an initiator. You have to have some external vice that cause that initiation such as having the TAPT that is closer to the PA10 that had a modified syringe. There has to be something external that initiates the device. That’s what the advanced imaging technology machine will pick up. Any anomaly outside the body. So we’re not going to get in the business of doing body cavity (searches) that’s just not where we are.”

 

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  1. #1 November 22, 2010 at 8:30 pm

    Granny commented:

    Something external? Like somebody else’s cell phone? Is he SERIOUSLY indicating that he is considering performing cavity searches on the American public without a warrant, in violation of the Fourth Amendment? This man is a lunatic. He needs to be removed from office. NOW.

  2. #2 November 22, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    Opaobie commented:

    I’d like to know who the drones were who responded to the survey and said they didn’t mind the scanners and just slightly didn’t like the “patdown”. Probably people who NEVER have been subjected to them and never will and don’t mind giving up all their rights in exchange for this faux “security”. How much more will the government try to subject us to? They keep pushing the envelope, and so far, there isn’t much push back from the “sheeple”. Fools all.

  3. #3 November 22, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    wow commented:

    This idiot is a walking, talking freak.

  4. #4 November 22, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    Redwine commented:

    This vile individual needs to be arrested for treason – along with Incompetano and Emperor and Empress Hussein.

  5. #5 November 22, 2010 at 8:48 pm

    kansas commented:

    Don’t you know that terrorists around the world are cramming stuff up their butts right now in order to freak the TSA and force cavity searches?

  6. #6 November 22, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Aitch748 commented:

    At the rate these stories are coming in, we’ll actually hear about some five-year-old getting a body-cavity search by the end of the month. How much further can this envelope be pushed?

  7. #7 November 22, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    Redwine commented:

    This piece of human garbage is just one more in the rather vast collection of assorted perverts and sociopaths who are carrying out the Emperor’s agenda.

  8. #8 November 22, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    Ginger commented:

    Let’s send them all to that beautiful new prison in Illinois! Most of them would be home.. well almost!

    The first female that goes though the monster machine and has a string hanging down I bet she gets a cavity search. Pass the word for the females to cut that string short! I am serious.

  9. #9 November 22, 2010 at 8:57 pm

    Conservative Ken commented:

    Who put this perv in a position of power?

    We need to get video of our lawmakers bypassing this TSA bull, then go viral with it. We know good and well the power brokers live by a different standard.

  11. #11 November 22, 2010 at 9:20 pm

    John commented:

    Yeah, it would never occur to Al Queda that they need some way to trigger the body cavity explosive that doesn’t need an external device. Something really sophisticated like a timer or a string attached to a friction detonator.

    You know that someone in that freakshop called Homeland Security has thought of this and has the plans in place for cavity searches. But like all their actions it will be after the fact.

  12. #12 November 22, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    Skandia Recluse commented:

    Who cares about the airport? I want to see TSA doing enhanced pat downs on NYC subway riders.

  13. #13 November 22, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    John commented:

    “#12 November 22, 2010 at 9:23 pm
    Skandia Recluse commented:

    Who cares about the airport? I want to see TSA doing enhanced pat downs on NYC subway riders.
    ”

    I’d pay real money to see that :-) I might even fly to NYC for the event, as long as I can bring my own popcorn.

  14. #14 November 22, 2010 at 9:41 pm

    rumcrook commented:

    wow, he really said that, surreal, truly surreal

  15. #15 November 22, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    Lisa G in NZ commented:

    “Amendment IV (1791)

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

    these searches are UN-CONSTITUTIONAL: let the lawsuits COMMENCE

    oh, by the way, the scans do NOT pick up any INTERNAL explosives in body cavities … and the scanner machines? some are from a SOROS OWNED COMPANY … HE is profiting on the scanning machines!

    grrrrrrr

  16. #16 November 22, 2010 at 10:00 pm

    Randy commented:

    Jeez people. You gotta hand it to the progressives. In just ten days, they have managed to change the national conversation from jobs, the economy, the tea party, the republican victory to groping. You can’t tell me this wasn’t intentional.

    Focus people. Our country is at stake.

  17. #17 November 22, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    mark commented:

    Are we supposed to be tipping TSA agents for the “massage?” Not sure what’s customary.

  18. #18 November 22, 2010 at 10:11 pm

    donh commented:

    I would like to know what kind of kinky things this man does that caused him to lose his eye brows. He must be engaged in some kind of perverse sex act similar to David Carradine that involves duck taping the face as a means of prolong the pistole from firing.

  19. #19 November 22, 2010 at 10:16 pm

    Cindy commented:

    I’d like to see all these government officials have to go through the enhanced pat down AND the scanner. Let’s see how they react when somebody sticks a hand down their pants. It happened to a friend of mine. And if the scanner is not so bad, let’s see their pictures on the internet.

  21. #21 November 23, 2010 at 1:51 am

    Aunty Dhimmi commented:

    All this money…all this inconvenience…and they have NEVER caught one terrorist. Not one. And many TSA and Homeland Security departments have several Muslim employees that are known sympathizers of the enemy. I have never seen such poor leadership or appointees in all of my 75 years! We need to get over this brainwashed feeling of “Political Correctness!” Yes, America, we have an enemy. It is Islam. The Islamic belief system and its Sharia law is completely incompatible with our Constitution. COMPLETELY. They can NOT coexist side by side. Now, get over it… plan accordingly…profile individuals at all security checkpoints according to the race and religion of those committing terrorist acts around the world (and NOT wasting the public’s time by strip searching little African-American and Caucasian boys or grandpa’s in a wheelchair or select teenage girls)… and get busy PROTECTING OUR BORDERS!!!

  22. #22 November 23, 2010 at 4:44 am

    M. Simon commented:

    How the Drug War Spawned the TSA:

    http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/11/for-children.html

    Precedent on how to deal with contraband has been set. It is now going to be applied to everyone.

  23. #23 November 23, 2010 at 4:50 am

    M. Simon commented:

    I want to see the pictures of people peeing in a cup to get a job.

    You gave up your rights to the Drug War long ago. What you see at airports now is just a moping up operation.

  24. #24 November 23, 2010 at 4:55 am

    M. Simon commented:

    #10 November 22, 2010 at 9:17 pm Opaobie,

    We put the tools in their hands. Which was fine as long as they were only going after dopers. They now have precedent on their side. But we sure had a good long run beating the crap out of the dopers didn’t we? Beating the crap out of…… Uh. Oh.

  25. #25 November 23, 2010 at 5:49 am

    Arch commented:

    1. The two new scanners are useless in locating explosives.
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/tsa-scans-security-theater-interview?click=pm_latest

    2. We should be profiling and searching every muslim who boards a commercial aircraft. TSA seems to be doing exactly the opposite.
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/23/airport_security_108037.html

    3. The airlines should hire 6,700 dogs and fire all 67,000 TSA agents. The real threat is luggage and cargo. (BTW, TSA is going to search someone’s daughter and face a violent, perhaps fatal, retaliation.)
    http://www.worldwidecanine.com/expldetdogs_wwc.htm

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