BREAKING: Trump critic Dem @RepAdamSchiff backs DHS electronic ban on Mideast flights; Update: UK to impose ban, too

Greg P. | 10:02 AM on March 21, 2017

By now you’ve heard about that DHS ban on electronics on flights to 8 Muslim-majority nations over some sort of terror threat:

Electronics ban issued for US-bound flights from 8 Muslim-majority countries pic.twitter.com/lyphTK5RA7

— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) March 21, 2017

Well, the Trump administration just got a huge endorsement of the action from none other than Democrat and major Trump-critic Rep. Adam Schiff:

Rep. Schiff says he was briefed by DHS that terrorists still want to ‘bring down aircraft,’ looking for ‘creative ways’ to do it

— TimJohnson (@TimJohnson4) March 21, 2017

House Intel ranking member Schiff says move to bar electronics aboard airliners arriving from Mideast ‘necessary, proportional to threat'

— TimJohnson (@TimJohnson4) March 21, 2017

Full statement here:

Top Dem on House Intel Schiff says new laptop/tablet ban is "necessary and proportional to the threat," says was briefed on it this weekend pic.twitter.com/9iE2EQFHHQ

— Amir Nasr (@amir_anasr) March 21, 2017

Gulp.

Update. The UK will impose the same ban as the U.S.: