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Months, well work with our partners to ensure these measures are fully implemented. again, today is just a starting point. we are taking prudent steps to make aircraft more secure, to reduce insider threats and to identify suspicious passengers. in the meantime, we will launch a concerted effort with our foreign partners to put in place wider counterterrorism improvements. this will include better information sharing, expanded exchanges of terrorist watch lists, and more advanced security checks...

Point. were taking prudent steps to make aircraft more secure to reduce insider threats. meantime, well launch a concerted effort with foreign partners to put in place wider counter terrorism improvements. well have expanded exchanges of watch lists and more advanced security checks of travelers around the world. finally, let me commend all the outstanding men and women throughout the department who make aviation security their daily mission. whether theyre working on the front lines at the tsa ...

Fabricate a device and then test it against screening technology, to see how much progress they make, see how they can get something through this kind of technological screening, it is not just isis and iraq, it is al qaeda and yemen, all the intelligence is pointing to all of these groups really stepping up their efforts to try and attack commercial aviation, even aviation coming into the united states, and they came close to an airplane landing in detroit to somebody detonating a bomb on their...

Technology. it allows them to fabricate a device and test them against screening technology. not just isis and iraq, it is al qaeda and yemen, all the intelligence is pointing to all of these groups really stepping up their efforts to try and attack commercial aviation, even aviation coming into the united states. al qaeda in yemen, the underwear bomber came very close as an airport landed in detroit to someone detonating a bomb on their body. so this is all part of the reason youre seeing the g...

Of the plane. but in this case, they were aiming for what is called the stressed wall of the plane wall to be decompressed. so they are counting on random assortment, if you will, in the luggage hold. if they have one or two or several laptops that wont be together in the luggage hold. and that the explosion would be somewhat contained. however, we should note, we do not have hardened luggage containers in the cargo holds. >> how sensitive is this technology that is believed to be in the hands o...

Those are direct flights into the united states, but what happened at shar mel shake is an insider threat. someone was comprised or radicalized or perhaps bribed to put a piece of luggage, a bomb on the airplane, that is a worker at the airport. we can have the best screening technology but if we have an insider threat out there, that is very, very hard to stop. that kind of scenario playing on an airliner flying directly into the united states is what im most concerned about. and isis has demon...

Undetected bomb. are you confident in our current screening technology? >> for this particular material candidly, no. and i cant say that i am. i think the pat down probably is better than the magnetometer. i think americans have to understand that this particular kind of explosives nonmetallic is not easily detectable. and that is one of the reasons why abdulmutallab wore it in his underwear so he couldnt be patted down sufficiently to detect it and that is a problem and something that tsa has ...

Are you confidence in our screening technology? >>guest: for this particular material, candidly, no. and i cannot 10 that i am. i think the patdown probably is better than the machines and americas have to understand that this particular kind of explosive, nonmetallic, is not easy to detect. that is one of the reasons that the suspect wore it in his underwear. so that is a problem. and that is something that t.s.a. has to grapple with. and the american public has not been terribly sympathetic bu...

More than nine months. some more than a year. while nearly 300 airports across the country go unprotected by the newest, best bomb-scanning technology. >> there are airports around america that really dont realize that in dallas, texas, there are huge amounts of this equipment sitting in excess. >> reporter: a congressional investigation concludes that the tsa is not only wasting $184 million by not deploying security equipment, it is warehousing the one device that can actually detect a nonmeta...

Smaller parts are getting uneasier? >> if they do bulk shipments we have screening technology that can detect large shipments, if they parse them in pieces, its like trying to find a needle in a haystack. you need layer defense. mexico needs to be more on their own side of the border. the fact that we requested the mexican government to form equivalent of customs on their border. they have not done that equivalent. our current resources and aid to mexico needs to be contingent upon them showing ...