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  • Former TSA chief: Airport security in America is 'broken'

    04/25/2012 9:28:10 PM PDT · by QT3.14 · 15 replies
    MSNBC ^ | April 24, 2012 | Rob Lovitt
    As head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from 2005 to 2009, Kip Hawley was the public face of an agency despised by millions of Americans. Today, he says that hatred is understandable because the agency’s approach to airport security is “broken,” arguing that it should forgo standardized procedures and a focus on prohibited items in favor of increased flexibility and mitigating risk.
  • AP source: Unlikely that 2 men plotting terror

    08/31/2010 9:29:38 AM PDT · by mainsail that · 83 replies
    AP ^ | 8/31/2010 | AP
    WASHINGTON – The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious items turned up in one of the men's luggage is finding they were probably not on a test run for a future terror attack, a U.S. official said Tuesday, casting doubt on earlier suggestions even as Dutch authorities held the pair on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist act.