ScarryMike,
Under Secretary for management, Patrick Kennedy states Abdullahmutallab, was being watched, and would be allowed to get on a plane with passengers to avoid revealing this on going investigation.
Youtube has the congressional hearing, search: Flight 253 Patrick F. Kennedy testimony, to see the facts you are so unable to face. Shocking though it may be, we as pilots need to know, some behind the POLITICAL/industrial landscape scenes of the battle against terror.
Thousands of Body Scanners sat in warehouses, as the airports would not purchase them, until, the Underwear bomber incident.
Michael Chertoff, former Director of Homeland security, now Owner of the Chertoff Group Selling, you guessed it... BODY SCANNERS becomming richer.
Two searches and your IQ will increase,
Safe journies all...Sushi