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.:
UK 'to follow US flight ban on laptops' https://t.co/5PSJov3YuO
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 21, 2017
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