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Certain red flags in the system that say i, hey, i better correlate this? >> if i could add to this, after the christmas bomb plot, we -- i think think in linear fashion targeted 14 countries and said everyone coming here from those 14 countries will get secondary screening. i think that was a message to those countries that was the wrong message. janet napolitano, our home land security secretary who has very ably succeeded michael chertoff has traveled extensively to foreign governments and this plan worked out with him. it's an intelligence based screening system rather than name based. we'...

The nation's airports. homeland security has confirmed to us the tsa screeners failed 67 out of 70 00 tests carried out by special investigators known as the red team. the tests and findings first reported by abc news were designed to push the boundaries of the screening system stood up after 9/11 to prevents weapons from getting on to planes. these are covert tests and designed to be as challenging as possible. to your point, there was another recent investigation that looked at checked baggage and they also found weaknesses throughout the system. in this case they cited tech problems as well...