The CIA Did What?

[Duckfan]

The CIA left "explosive training material" under the hood of a Loudoun County school bus after a training exercise last week, a bus that was used to ferry elementary and high school students to and from school on Monday and Tuesday with the material still sitting in the engine compartment, according to the CIA and Loudoun County officials. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office and the CIA said in statements Thursday that the explosive material was left behind after a training exercise at Briar Woods High School during spring break. The CIA said it was a training scenario for explosives-detecting dogs.

They should have put the dogs in charge. They're pretty clearly the brains of the operation.


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[Kentonio]

1. Unless the story was about them building a death star on the dark side of the moon

There's very little that would surprise me about the CIA any more.

[dreamnightwind]

2. This just in...

[Adrahil]

3. A bit of a hair-on-fire reaction, I think.

I did a project a few years ago to build a device to train rats to recognize explosives. The "explosive simulator" we used was probably like this. It has a SMALL amount of plastic explosive (C-4 in our case) mixed with a LARGE amount of odorless polymer clay. It looks like C-4 and to an animal it smells like C-4, but it cannot be made to explode, even with detonators.

However, it is STILL controlled, even though it cannot be made to be dangerous (at least readily), and we did have to keep accounting of it. So the CIA has to fix their shit, but no one was ever in danger from this (assuming they used explosive simulators, as is standard in such training).