It's an interesting news, you should know. In a sign that the new airport screening procedures may be modified, two key politicians to the Transportation Security Administration today that the rules may be unconstitutional and a waste of government resources.
"We are concerned about the new protocol enhanced pat-down screening and encourage you to reconsider the use of this protocol," Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), influential chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.), chairman of the transportation subcommittee, the TSA said in a letter (PDF). They asked the TSA to hand over internal documents, studies, and passenger complaints by December 1.
When the Thanksgiving travel season approaching, the reaction to the new procedure the TSA has been profound and sharply critical, driven by mobile recording line incident security, privacy and health problems, and Web sites including Drudge Report, which published photos of the hands-on examination by a nun title: "THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON." Wow, this is really amazing!
Monday to call them machines Colbert Report "that the X-ray part of your X-rated," and a software engineer from Oceanside, California became an Internet sensation after it said the TSA screener:
"If you touch my garbage, I'll have you arrested." (Procedure announced late last month, including pat-down that can touch the genitals and the whole body scanner that uses X-rays.) This should be corrected as soon as possible!
The letter shows how some political body is the evaporation cover and could signal a turning point in the protest in Washington political circles. On the other hand, only focuses on physical searches police-style, and not Thompson and Jackson Lee mentioned the controversial X-ray scanner.
For its part, TSA showed visible signs of retreat. He refused to answer questions from CNET's this afternoon.
A statement from TSA chief John Pistole said, "All the pat-down conducted professionally and designed to detect hidden explosives that could bring down a plane is only a small portion of passengers eventually need them ..
Pat-downs has long been one of the many security measures TSA and almost all other nations have been used in a risk-based approach to help detect hidden items and dangerous. "
letter today from two Democratic House is a sudden face-about of the hearing which was held just a few days ago, where Senate Democrats continue to support the Obama administration.
"I think you did a great job," said Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia Democrat and chairman of the Senate committee overseeing air travel, Pistole, a former FBI agent who had the job since July. Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said a few minutes later that the U.S. "must understand that this is done for their best interests and their safety."
That echoed what Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the day before. As previously reported Cnet, said TSA is "doing the right thing," and that the scans and more invasive pat-downs are "necessary for security - security in the country -. The American People" (Lieberman is an independent senator from Connecticut who caucuses with the Democrats. )
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