These are snippets from a story on AOL news. The story, however, is not exclusive tho them and others are reporting it, too. It is based on statements Pistole made.
"We're not going to be in the business of doing body cavities," John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, told reporters at a breakfast this morning. "That's not where we are."""
"The new procedures and technology are designed, in large part, to address concerns that terrorists could place a bomb in their undergarments, similar to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called "underwear bomber," who boarded a Detroit-bound flight last year on Christmas day with explosives sewn into his underwear."
"But Pistole said that current intelligence does not support the threat of bombs being placed in body cavities, and he disputed reports that an al-Qaida-linked terrorist last year used a bomb placed inside his rectum in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef. Pistole, a longtime veteran of the FBI, said reports that Abdullah Asieri had secreted the bomb inside a body cavity were "inaccurate" and not supported by the forensics he had seen."
"We are taking some risk by not doing any screening
, but it is the balance of what is the appropriate level of risk versus screening," he said."
Let's keep in mind that we already have in wide use the technology to communicate with implanted/internal medical devices. We can recharge batteries and reprogram devices. Nothing Pistole said rules out cavity searches. They will not shy away from suggesting them, and implementing them if they can.
edit to add the link to the story: http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/transportation-security-administration-chief-john-pistole-says-no-body-cavity-searches/19728594
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