Rep. King: “I was very concerned” about US Airways bomb scare

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, opens up about his concerns over the US Airways “body bomb” scare and the new Kathryn Bigelow directed movie about Osama bin Laden.

Rep. King says, “We’re concerned about the bombs that can be concealed on the body, but again, we do know that Yemen has actually gotten surgeons who can perform this operation. And, that’s al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operating out of Yemen. And so, we are very much looking out for this starting about a year ago, but more so, in the last several months.”

He continues, “Even though she was flying without luggage and she was flying for ten days, I think if that had been in the U.S., she would have been taken aside for secondary screening and would have been questioned and asked, you know, where she was going and why she was doing this and they would have asked a series of questions trying to get some indicators from her.”

On the Osama bid Laden movie, King says, “My concern is the access that Hollywood producers and Democratic lobbyists were given to the CIA and to the Defense Department. We’re finding out that Kathryn Bigelow that all of this — all her meetings with the CIA were arranged by a Democratic lobbying group. I’ve never heard of lobbyists interceding to get people into the CIA…. Why would [Bigelow] have [clearance] when only members of Congress have been to some of these sites?”

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