Bryant to Head St. Louis FBI Office

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dean C. Bryant is taking over the St. Louis FBI office. Bryant, the chief of the Critical Incident Response Group’s Hazardous Devices Operations Section near Quantico, Va., was the senior FBI executive and chairman of the Joint Program Office responsible for coordinating with the interagency and the White House’s National Security…

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Ex-TSA Official Says Airport Screeners Would Have Caught Latest Underwear Bomber

By Mark Strassmann CBS News At more than 180 U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration increasingly relies on full-body scanners. Their electromagnetic waves screen passengers for dense objects — both metallic and non-metallic threats — from guns to homemade plastic explosives. Kip Hawley was the TSA administrator in 2007, when the agency rolled out these…

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