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dropping. when you realize how big and how much of an effort now that the fbi is taking on in trying to sort of disrupt some of this. the american public has to have confidence in the voting process in this country, josh campbell, and you say seeing all of those intel chiefs was a great step. absolutely. we heard a lot of specifics here today. but there s also there symbolic effort which is so important for the american people to see. this united front. seeing the intelligence chiefs standing there and telling the american people we take this threat seriously. those of us who cover the intelligence community know they take it seriously but the public has to hear it. there are too many challenges they are focusing on. physical infrastructure security, the voting systems, ensuring confidence in those systems. but then also countering these foreign influence operation sway her can y herculean task. even if no vote is changed, if foreign adversaries can persuade the american p ....
And anguish that was caused. i couldn t find this. can you give me another example other than saving money why the tsa would want to do this? no. this is pure risk. they are looking at the risk calculation and saying how much risk is in the smaller airports. these are the smaller airports that go to connecting flights. it s just looking at risks and saying there is a great reduction of risk there. let s reallocate that money and that staffing to higher risk airports. how would that not be telegraphing to the terrorists what airports would be vulnerable? last question. it would absolutely be telegraphing that very fact. al qaeda and isis have been doing a lot of r&d into laptop bombs and shoe bombs. if you don t have screening you don t need these sophisticated devices to bring down an ....
What the wake-up call was for airport screeners. the big concern is from al qaeda in yemen. this group has had isis when it comes to the sophisticated devices. there is an expert bombmaker experimenting with shoe bombs and underwear bombs and surgi l surgically implanting bombs on humans. he has been sharing that intelligence. al qaeda in syria in 2014, were planning a similar laptop bomb. that group in yemen is richer now. better than 2009 and 2010 when it put together the printer bomb plot and underwear bomb throplo. ....
Sophisticated devices, concealing bombs inside electronics. they have a master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri, a saudi who s very good at building these kind of devices. and for years has been developing underwear bombs, shoe bombs, even the group has experimented with surgically implanting devices inside people so that they can get them on planes. there s intelligence that s come out on that. and this is a group which is believed to have shared this technology with a number of other al qaeda affiliates in the region, including al qaeda s affiliate in syria, the so-called khorasan group, a group that western intelligence learned in the summer of 2014 were plotting to get a bomb inside electronics in some kind of laptop or other device onto a plane. and actually, that plotting led to new rules being introduced by the tsa for foreign airports ....
Down that russian airliner and it has airport security on the lookout for sure, but what are they looking for? shoe bombs, underwear bombs, other things we ve never even thought about before that make the latest screening technology obsolete? you might be surprised at how fast the technology is growing. yes, we are twins. when i went on to ancestry, i just put in the name of my parents and my grandparents. i was getting all these leaves and i was going back generation after generation. you start to see documents and you see signatures of people that you ve never met. i mean, you don t know these people, but you feel like you do. you get connected to them. i wish that i could get into a time machine and go back 100 years, 200 years and just meet these people. being on ancestry just made me feel like i belonged somewhere. discover your story. start searching for free now at ancestry.com. ....