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Ignore it. from rene marsh who has seen the report. how does this happen? how is a convicted flopterrorist through? >> reporter: despite the explosives the passenger randomly picked for precheck. all coats, shoes, stay on and certain liquids and gels do not have to be removed from luggage. what's alarming this program reserved for low-risk passengers was opened up to a former domestic terror group member and essentially what it allowed for was a less stringent screening process. >> what's the satsa saying about all this? >> reporter: the traveler's name did not appear on a terror watch list. i...

Highlights the weakness of precheck. as this watch dog report states just because someone is not on a watch list does not make them low risk. >> rene how did this investigation get started? >> reporter: we know that a whistle blower came forward. we should also point out that there was a tsa officer there at the airport, recognized the felon, flagged a supervisor but the superior essentially gave the okay gave the clear for this traveler to go through. that tsa agent didn't feel he or she had the power to override the supervisor but that has all now changed in light of this report. tsa says th...

Checked luggage and carry it. it could be a box of stolen passports delivered to be somebody else, could be explosives, narcotics, you don't know. that's still a mystery and a lot of investigation needs to be done in thailand with that travel agency with this man. they were at two different places with thailand, a beach resort town. the tickets were purchased in another town of thailand and paid in thailand currency. >> when i heard the chairman of the house homeland committee talking about these two iranians, i thought that was discounted. what are you hearing from your sources? >> they ran t...

The boeing 777 jet disappeared ten days ago and no new traces have shown up. joining me now to discuss, john hansman from m.i.t. as well as a former fbi assistant director. tom, if i can go to you first, when we last spoke a few moments ago, you were bringing up an important point we haven't heard on the air before. as they check the passengers on board this plane, as well as others involved with maintenance on the plane, et cetera, against u.s. terror database, that would only touch people who travelled to the u.s., is that right? there could be people involved with this plane who would not b...

Reasons and causes of this are. at this point, we have to again be patient and wait and let the authorities continue to investigate. >> now, to be clear, u.s. officials continue to tell me and they will do this consistently they have no evidence at this point that this was an act of terror. but they are following down all these leads. for instance, when those men boarded the plane with the stolen passports, they checked their names against the u.s. terror database, found there was nos link to terrorism. they eliminate that as an explanation. there are still all the other unanswered questions. ...