airport where the plane departed. house intelligence member adam schiff who s received classified briefings on the investigation says isis, which claimed responsibility may have gotten to someone at the airport. isis may have concluded that the best way to defeat airport defenses is not to go through them but to go around them with the help of somebody on the inside. reporter: former top israeli airport security official goes further pointing to certain areas of that airport that he says investigators need to focus on. the center of attention will be on what happens on the ground at the airport, meaning on the ramp since the aircraft landed at sharm el sheikh until the time it took off. look at who had access to the aircraft, identify any suspicious involvement around the aircraft. reporter: an egyptian official calls allegations of poor security at the sharm el sheikh airport, quote, unsubstantiated and false. egypt s top investigator now says the plane s cockpit voice
the united states and am in the global entry program between swiping my passport, getting my picture taken, doing my fingerprinting, answering a few questions on this machine, and getting my bag and getting out, the process could only take a few minutes. what i avoid are the lines at regular customs. ed blum just flew in from panama. i travel frequently for business and i stand in line an hour. now it takes about two minutes. experts like former top israeli airport security official rafi says there s no substitute for an alert human screener looking for suspicious body language. there s a lot involved in identifying suspicious behavior. some of it is uncontrolled behavior as a result of the stress the terrorists are under. while they re on a mission. that is something that machines have great difficult to detect. ron also points out a machine won t detect a terrorist who has no previous criminal record and
presidential caucus state on this the eve of president obama s visit to iowa to promote health care reform. he ll be in iowa city tomorrow. look who s planning to skip a major gathering of possible republican presidential contenders next month, that would be minnesota governor mike pawlenty. his spokesman tells cnn pawlenty will instead attend a ceremony welcoming back u.s. troops from iraq. he had been scheduled to take part in the southern republican leadership conference in new orleans along with sarah palin and other possible white house hopefuls. and, remember, for the latest political news at any time, you can check out cnnpolitics.com. he s president obama s top choice to head the transportation security administration. and he has a whole new plan for trying to keep you safe when you fly. kate bolduan s here in the situation room with the details. what is going on? well, wolf, you know this. israeli airport security is considered some of the toughest in the world, and
to move in this direction, but just how far, he did not say in these hearings. now, tony, you probably are aware of this but many people may not be. the israeli airport security is aggressive questioning of passengers. interviewing every passenger between one minute to ten minutes, up to the extreme cases to even an hour. in some cases asking passengers to produce documentation to support some of the information they re giving. say you re going for a business conference, maybe to find something that can support that kind of information so it can be very intense in some cases. i ve traveled through the airport, and that security apparatus, it is no joke. but here s the thing, kate. israel and united states are very different places. could this model, given the amount of the volume of traffic in the united states, work here in the country? you really hit the nail on the head. the israeli model is praised by experts by making the israeli airport system some of the most secure in the w
excess sit ax body spray and overheard discussions of how much you bench. some of the things i talked about, the science of drunkenness, it seems so obvious. you are a bartender. have they been ordering a lot of alcoholic beverages? maybe it is a drunk who will cause trouble late oamplt. this is a pretty serious issue. and we made it harder to go after the big tar targets. is this the natural progression, you think? i think to give them their due, this is probably an effort to do what we call profiling except we are not allowed to call it profiling. i took this from the israeli airport security. i think that s what we have to look at. the terrorists have to adopt and they have adopted and they are not going to come wearing burkas. they are going to be drinking and that sort of thing. anything that we can do to spread people s awareness has to be a good thing. that gives me an idea just