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Which is you were briefed on richard reid, the shoe bomber. you made a comment thinking it would only last for a couple weeks. what was that? so when richard reid when we found out he had a shoe bomb, i talked to the faa demolition experts there and confirmed this say legitimate shoe bomb. i called my commanding officer. i said general downing, i think we need to start checking everybody coming through, check their shoes. we didn t know that richard reid was one off. we thought this could be a, you know, an effort on part of al qaeda. so i passed that information on to xwen downing. maybe we ought to have people have their shoes checked and laptop computers. i have no doubt that president of the united states or the secretary of homeland security made the final decision. but i might have got the ball rolling there. for that, those that are walking around shoeless in the airport, i apologize. ....

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