CIA Stops New Al-Qaida Underwear Bomb Plot. Is The TSA Doing Enough To Protect Travelers?

by mrosen814 Posted 2012/05/07 21:58:56

Related Topics: CIA, TSA, Bomb, Protect, Al-qaida

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branrules101 2012/05/08 01:12:18

Undecided

+5
Wow, they are doing WAY TOO MUCH!!!! So they grope children and send radiation through those who refuse to be groped... Millions of people per year, and they catch ONE person and all of a sudden it's "Oh the TSA is here to protect us!" STFU! This has gone too far, the TSA needs to go die in a hole...
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Joey 2012/06/30 00:23:02

Undecided

I find it funny when Republicans complain about the TSA .. when many support Racial profiling and stop and frisk searches .

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art1ej 2012/06/21 05:16:20

Undecided

well their already basically raping people at the airport already so i think their over reacting....

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Chris Tate 2012/06/05 18:30:45
marty 2012/05/26 19:19:33

Undecided

Agree with branrules101: they're doing too damn much.

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FineCut69 2012/05/25 20:55:22

Undecided

The TSA should be disbanded....

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beckyboone 2012/05/20 05:02:49

Undecided

I haven't flown in years, so I'm really not sure about airport security, now.

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Lorin Morgan 2012/05/13 03:20:54

Yes

i think that since they CAUGHT the person that blew up the plane this time they're doing enough. (i just wish i didnt have to put up with the body scanners when i go on a plane)

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Eric S. 2012/05/12 11:47:36

No

Strange how a bomb can be detected easily but not if it's covered in your underwear!

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Richard 2012/05/12 00:24:55

Undecided

The TSA is a joke... period. I see no underwear allowed when traveling by airplane in the very near future.

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Tammy 2012/05/11 17:20:52

No

I hope they're providing counseling & services to whomever is trying to blow themselves & others up into smitharines. What the heck is this world coming to? Saddening.

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YouSirName 2012/05/10 23:57:46

No

+1
The TSA does almost nothing to protect travelers. All the TSA does is waste billions of dollars and billions of man-hours in security theater. All significant protections come from activities outside the airport, like this one. Read Bruce Shneier:

http://www.schneier.com/

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lonewolf 2012/05/09 19:12:37

Undecided

+1
GREAT! NOW WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT EXPLODING UNDERWEAR?!?!

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Chris 2012/05/09 18:21:47

No

I think the underwear bomber should have been given a bomb rigged to burn "Allah Ain't So Merciful" into his flesh. Just to remind him how much his God doesn't care about him. That would literally scar him for life. LOL.

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Izzyhomes 2012/05/09 13:20:44

Undecided

when you hear about stuff like this you think yes... but when you think, 'well if they had figured it out earlier' then you think no....

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Jacob Mahurien 2012/05/09 09:59:25

No

+1
Considering the bomber was a double agent working with the CIA...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-1...

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DianaXoGirl 2012/05/09 05:25:26 (edited)

Yes

I mean they did find the uderwear bomb. guess it's invasion of privacy but it's better than death right?

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NoName to DianaXo... 2012/05/10 14:05:24

+1
Considering it wasn't the TSA, but the CIA, and we can stop them without the invasiveness of the TSA *currently* - then no, it isn't better.

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the d*ck 2012/05/09 05:10:31

No

Could do more

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John Freeman 2012/05/09 01:16:36

Undecided

+2

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alanh 2012/05/08 21:32:37

Yes

+1
I think we are doing a great job in this country but the rest of the worlds security is not up to par. I guess they should just take everybody's underwear away! lol Next thing will be to make everyone fly naked....

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NoName to alanh 2012/05/08 22:10:16

+3
Israel's is above ours, and they don't do the body scanners or patdowns the TSA does.

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alanh to NoName 2012/05/09 14:12:21

agreed

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Call me Mark willya? 2012/05/08 20:53:34

Undecided

+2
To tell the truth, I take trains if I can and busses if I can't but I'm not travelling lately anyway except within 100 or 200 miles, so I drive, I quit flying when I heard about the hassle involved... Sorry i guess the terrorists win where I'm concerned because it's just too much trouble to fly anymore. Not avoiding it because I'm scared, I'd much rather fly, but I'd also much rather not be searched like a prison inmate to do it...

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joshua ben-ami 2012/05/08 20:27:19

Undecided

too many policy makers changing rules for agents to do their jobs

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starlight 2012/05/08 19:52:22

Undecided

Well i did hear about them violating peoples privacy but i dont know

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DieHardMCR 2012/05/08 19:27:20

Undecided

they ARE doing a lot, but they could be doing better. at least they got it stopped

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gkirmani 2012/05/08 19:05:23

No

+1
THEY are only earning bread & Butter at the cost of tax payers money...........on TASK that is HOAX created, nurtured supported by AMERICA

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adam rohleder 2012/05/08 19:00:08 (edited)

No

+2
They need to profile not stop granny

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c.ruth93 2012/05/08 18:40:33

Undecided

The question is kind of contradictory since well the TSA really had no involvement in foiling the plot. But yes in ways more than necessary they do protect us.

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Tiny Tawnie 2012/05/08 16:15:24

Undecided

I've never went on an airplane before but I've heard good things and bad so I guess that it depends on the situation

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jackie 2012/05/08 15:57:03

Yes

They are doing MORE than enough.

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The I 2012/05/08 15:41:06

Yes

Good question! But it's probably best to ask a person that has been blown up in an airplane if the TSA is doing enough. Those that aren't blown up are still in the game and will offer varying opinions. They fail to realize that successful travel from point A to point B is a TSA success and travel from point A to a morgue is failure.

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mrosen814 to The I 2012/05/08 19:14:58 (edited)

+1
Failure would also consist of getting by TSA with weapons, test explosives, etc...and not necessarily using them

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The I to mrosen814 2012/05/15 17:52:03

True. And obviously the more chances there are for these devices to go undetected; the chances increase for travelers to never make it to their destinations.

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James harris 2012/05/08 14:54:15

Undecided

Actually it was the CIA that foiled the plot so if the bomb would have made it to an airport over seas to here it might have gone off. Really the TSA has nothing to do with this story because the bomb was coming from there to here so it would not have passed through one of the TSA's security checkpoints before it exploded anyway...

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dabaddestbitxch 2012/05/08 12:41:50

Yes

yea i think they are doing dha rite thing

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Brandi Elliott 2012/05/08 12:36:23

No

F_ck america

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Happy_Evil_Dude 2012/05/08 11:49:36

Yes

They foiled the plot, didn't they?

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c.ruth93 to Happy_E... 2012/05/08 18:39:04

+1
CIA did. But they didn't even catch the guy.

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marilyn redwood 2012/05/08 11:42:00

Yes

the sister of my husband lives in the US she is afraid to come to my country Philippines because she said there are lots of terrorist here.but it is now clear that the real terrorists are just i the ground of america.

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