[Cindy]

http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=8185

Updated: September 22nd, 2006 02:05 PM PDT
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"Standards Suggested for Airline Security Pass"

The Associated Press

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday announced standards for an ID card that frequent fliers can buy to get through security lines faster at airports.

The announcement comes nearly five years after Congress first authorized the program, two years after the TSA first tested it and three months after it was supposed to start.

The public has two weeks to comment on the standards, which are only in draft form."

[Cindy]

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com (WEEKLY STANDARD): "PRACTICE MAKES TERROR" by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In the case of airline alerts, some of these may in fact be true alarms. The suspects may be abetting a terrorist plot--yet catching and punishing them is difficult, since they're only probing defenses, not trying to bring down the flight.") (September 25, 2006)

AIRPORT BUSINESS.com (AP): "FIREARM FOUND IN CARRY-ON BAG AT BWI" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Transportation Security Administration spokesman Christopher White said the bag belonged to a male passenger. He could not be located.") (Updated September 22, 2006)