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http://www.nationaljournal.com/nati...screening-but-say-changes-are-coming-20101115
By Chris Strohm
Monday, November 15, 2010 | 2:22 p.m.
Homeland Security officials today defended airport screening procedures amid a backlash of complaints that they are too invasive, but officials said that changes to some tactics will be made soon.
"We are doing what we need to do to protect the traveling public," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
"Adjustments will be made where they need to be made."
But with the holiday season fast approaching, some passenger-rights groups and pilots are protesting what they say are invasive procedures, such as physical pat downs, in which airport screeners rub their hands along the groin area. The screeners who perform the procedure are of the same sex as the person being checked.
[My name is mandatroy. And yes, I have just now become a homophobic.]
"We’re working with the pilots groups, and we hope to very quickly announce some things where pilots are concerned," Napolitano said.
m. troy. This is not good. I smell a rat. Any time these 'people' get together, the public ends up on the losing end of the stick.
By Chris Strohm
Monday, November 15, 2010 | 2:22 p.m.
Homeland Security officials today defended airport screening procedures amid a backlash of complaints that they are too invasive, but officials said that changes to some tactics will be made soon.
"We are doing what we need to do to protect the traveling public," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
"Adjustments will be made where they need to be made."
But with the holiday season fast approaching, some passenger-rights groups and pilots are protesting what they say are invasive procedures, such as physical pat downs, in which airport screeners rub their hands along the groin area. The screeners who perform the procedure are of the same sex as the person being checked.
[My name is mandatroy. And yes, I have just now become a homophobic.]
"We’re working with the pilots groups, and we hope to very quickly announce some things where pilots are concerned," Napolitano said.
m. troy. This is not good. I smell a rat. Any time these 'people' get together, the public ends up on the losing end of the stick.
