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All three networks followed up on Lisa Myers' report for NBC yesterday on the security lookout for exploding cheese. Screeners are not really in fear of Brie bombs and Roquefort rockets…the suspicion is that innocent objects that mimic unassembled components of a possible bomb have been carried by passengers past airport screeners to test if they provoke suspicion. Now the Transportation Security Administration has circulated a memo speculating that wire coils, tube pipes, batteries, clay, freezer icepacks, cellphone chargers, electrical switches, duct tape--and blocks of cheese--may all be "dress rehearsals for a possible attack," as ABC's Lisa Stark (subscription required) put it. The theory is a little thin. NBC's Pete Williams told us that the memo rests on just four incidents in the past nine months and of the four "the TSA now says it believes some of them…have innocent explanations." CBS' Bob Orr called the ragtag collection "bizarre" and "strange." This is hardly weighty enough to warrant the lead status on a network newscast, but NBC went ahead anyway.
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