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...if "American Authorities" hadn't thwarted full-body scanners, for "privacy concerns".

Whoever those "American Authorities" are, they need to be fired. Asplodey Abdulmutallab should never have been aboard a plane bound for the U.S., period.

But, there's some good news! REPUBLICAN Congressman Peter King (R, 3rd District, NY), ranking Republican on the House Committee of Homeland Security, demands this full-body screening begin immediately for all foreign flights inbound to the United States...

"I would say right now we do need full body scan, especially when you have countries like Nigeria, which have inadequate security, and you have passengers transiting in Amsterdam and coming here," Congressman Peter King told CBS news in an interview.

"There is a brief violation of privacy with the full body scan, but on the other hand we can save thousands of lives,"

Joe Lieberman (Independent, currently hated by the far-left; the only sensible Senator in the Democrat caucus) is also on board for that process...

"Three hundred people could have been killed and untold more on the ground in Michigan if this plane had crashed," Lieberman said referring to the explosive used by the Nigerian al-Qaida suspect in his attempt to blow up a US passenger plane on Christmas day.

"There have been privacy concerns expressed about the use of these whole body imaging devices, but I think those privacy concerns, have to fall in the face of the ability of these machines to detect material like this, explosive on this individual,"

Crying, whiny leftists to complain in 3, 2, 1...

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