What We Know About The ISIS Plot At the Center of Trump’s Russia Gaffe

“They would have probably gone on a molehunt already,” says Pantucci. “What you’ll do is you might shift your attention. So you might say ‘okay, it’s going to be impossible to get on a flight the U.S. or the U.K., let’s try and get a device through an airport somewhere else’ and try to see if that can get into the airspace that they want to try to target.” The revelations, therefore, have a potentially dangerous consequence: increasing the threat to the lives of civilians traveling by air from the Middle East.