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By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Anal cavity bombs? Body cavity airport searches? I'm sitting at the Newark-Liberty International Airport, and I had a discussion with my wife about two hours ago about a cell phone search case where the prison officials went after a cell phone in an anal cavity by surgery. If one can hide a cell phone there, why not the ingredients to a bomb? Then, I see on Skating on Stilts, referenced on Volokh Conspiracy, is the comment that the underwear bomber might have had it hidden in his rectum. Frankly, that post was not seen by me until ten minutes ago, but we're thinking the same thing. So, full body searches of everybody? On international flights, the flight attendants sound like officers who pulled over a suspicious vehicle: "Keep your hands where I can see 'em!" TSA will make the public hate flying more than it already does...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on December 29, 2009 (boomark / email).