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TSA announces "no plans" for cavity searches
Well gee, isn’t this a relief?
Although the Transportation Security Administration has been enhancing its aviation measures this year, agency head John S. Pistole said Monday that it has no plans to get into one of the worst-case screening scenarios: cavity checks.“We’re not getting into the business of doing body cavity [searches],” he said. “That’s not where we are.”
While security experts have talked for years about the possibility of terrorists attacking U.S. airliners by concealing explosives in their bodies to avoid detection, Pistole said coming up with a specific countermeasure for the scenario — instituting manual checks or coming up with a technological solution — does not seem necessary. Due to the nature of the improvised explosive devices terrorists are known to use, he said, whole body image scanners and other current technology would be able to detect them.
“Even if it is a body cavity, you still need some sort of external device,” he said.
The external device in question would be a trigger or activator for the explosives, he said, using the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian born man accused of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit on Christmas Day. Abdulmutallab allegedly had a packet containing the explosive PETN — the same compound used in the October parcel bomb incident — and a modified syringe holding a liquid acid that, when released onto the PETN, would have caused it to explode.
While a terrorist could hide explosives in a body cavity, Pistole said, the activating device would still have to be hidden outside of the body.
“That’s what the Advanced Imaging Technology machine can pick up,” he said.
Pistole also challenged media reports regarding the use of explosives hidden inside of terrorists, particularly a 2009 account of a terrorist who reportedly tried to kill a counterterrorism official in Saudi Arabia by having fellow attackers use a cell phone to detonate a bomb he smuggled in through a body cavity, similar to methods drug “mules” use to conceal contraband.
He said the forensics in the case were not conclusive, though.
Sure, cavity searches are “not where [they] are” this week. But just a few weeks ago they weren’t getting to second base with grandma, either. If you plan to continue flying next month, you might want to pack your own lube.
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
