Source: Feds dismissed E-mail warning of plan to conceal items on planes

[WillyT]

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Washington-AP -- A top Bush administration official says the man suspected of hiding box-cutters on two airline flights warned federal authorities in an e-mail.

But, the source says federal officials concluded the man "did not pose an imminent threat to national security."

The official says the man told the government he planned to conceal similar suspicious items on six planes and provided dates and locations for the plan.

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Link: http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=1487698

:wtf::wtf::wtf:

[JackSwift]

1. I guess he wasn't Arab looking

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[WillyT]

2. Yeah... But If He Did Not Pose A Security Threat, Then...

Why did they search every goddamned airliner in the U.S.?

:shrug:

Somethin fishy here, no???

[Zhade]

3. Because even after he warned them, they got caught with their pants down.

This is a prime example of what a joke airport security is, and how the FBI is really not that interested in keeping us safe (or are prevented from doing so).

[WillyT]

5. Good Point, But How Far Down Were Their Pants ???

IOW - Did they get the e-mail warning and dismiss it as a prank that was never gonna happen, or did they use it as some sort of idiotic 'test' of their response protocols???

Either way, they look like fools, and the airlines need this kind of news like they need another plane crash right now!!!

:shrug:

[havocmom]

6. airport security not the only bad joke

This business of registering food suppliers to 'protect the nation's food supply' is pretty ridiculous too. They can't protect us from e-coli in the meat supplied by processors which already are registered and inspected.

I fear this 'anit-terrorist' measure will be a way to put family farms and small producers out of business. To really assure safty, every apple, pork chop and quart of milk would have to have armed guards 24/7 all along the production, processing, transporting and grocery store route.

Who the dickens are they fooling with this security line of BS. The only think the malAdministration is iterested in protecing is their own misrable hides and corporate interests, in that order.

[TahitiNut]

4. Perhaps because the TSI personnel searching the planes ...

... wouldn't tell the media about finding more such items? Maybe to keep the scope of such vulnerabilities from being "embarassing" to the madministration?

It's so easy to see all their actions solely in the light of their own personal self-interest. These are not "public servants."

[snippy]

7. I would like to know

at what level this decision was made.

federal officials concluded the man "did not pose an imminent threat to national security."

Were these "federal officials" career people, political appointees, hourly employees, family members of Whistle Ass or Whistle Dick? And was Turd Blossom Rove involved?