On this morning's "Fox NEWS Sunday" Department of Homeland Security Advisor, Fran Townsend, defends the DHS decision to once again allow airline passengers to carry cigarette lighters. Chris Wallace actually makes a few good points, referring to Michael Chertoff's gut, the fact that passengers still can't take a bottle of water on board and then asks Townsned point blank if she really thinks that a lighter on board a plane isn't dangerous.

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Townsend maintains that their security decisions are based on "what we understand to be the tactical methods of Al Qaeda." Apparently the shoe bomb plot has fallen off their radar.