John S. Pistole: “No, actually they are based on intelligence that we know specifically from Christmas Day, Abdulmutallab, and the way he…”

I share your concern about the way we treat these heroes.

The fact that virtually everybody traveling every day is not a terrorist, so why treat them as such?

It is not good law enforcement. It is not good security work from our perspective. It is unconstitutional.

The fact remains accurate through today and underscores a point that in aviation security, it is not the object per se that is dangerous but the individual who intends to use that object to inflict harm that presents the danger.