"In recent months, intelligence officials in Washington have warned"
"form the North Shore Gang Intelligence task force in 2000"
Sounds to me like they're about five years too late (as usual) on this "clamp down".
Recall Logan Airport? September 11th, 2001? I know for a fact, there were warnings and Massport did not do a damm thing in the mid-1990's, so this insanity is not at all suprising.