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What way, john, does that become a privacy are issue? >> these machines are designed, built and intended to save and transmit images of naked travelers. the tsa has said that they will not do that, but they can change that policy at any time without notice to the public and for any reason. jon: here's, let me get another statement from the tsa. they say that advanced imaging technology is a vital layer of security to help protect against known and evolving threats like the attempted attack on december 25, 2009. i suppose, tom, that there are a lot of people, you know, who would say, look, give...

Security administration, as you might expect, is defending the machines saying privacy is insured through the anonymity of the image which cannot be stored, transmitted or printed and is deleted immediately once viewed when in operational mode. the officer viewing the image is the remotely located and a private filter applied to blur all images. for a fair and balanced debate, tom blank, former deputy directer of the transportation start administration, and senior counsel for electronic privacy information center, the group that filed the petition demanding the tsa suspend using those body sca...

Jenna: tom, what do you think? good idea here? >> well, i think it's always a good idea to evaluate new approaches to better customer service and security. and that's really what tsa is doing here. they put a request in for information out, ought -- automated wait time analysis is something the aviation and airport industry is moving towards globally and in this instance, an idea was presented to them, they did not make a decision to deploy it, it was used at indianpolis, which is a forward leaning airport in conjunction with per due university, but this is not something that tsa has formally ...

Beginning. everybody said no, it isn't isis because we didn't see any kind of missile launch, but the possibility that somebody smuggled on board in a piece of luggage some kind of bomb, that is lower tech than obtaining a high-altitude capable missile. >> it is lower tech especially in the era of suicide bombers. we will get to the bottom of this they're looking for bomb components, traces of explosives, doing background checks on the people that have access to the aircraft as i said. regardless of what isis has to say the investigation by the british and the u.s. will find out what happened ...

Handler in a passenger concourse men's room. that former baggage handleder would then fly with the weapons using a compliment buddy pass he apparently got from his mother who was a retired delta employee. harris? >> what is delta saying about this? what action might they take? >> reporter: an airline spokesman says they suspended eugene harvey pending an investigation. as for mark henry, delta fired him in 2010 for allegedly abusing the buddy pass system. some of the weapons, some of them loaded, could be smuggled, is of grave concern. >> thank you very much. let's bring in tom blank. he is th...