VADM Peter Neffenger, (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
If the new head of the Transportation Security
Administration gets his way, all airport screeners will be retrained
within 60 days to better detect explosives and spot weapons and more
passengers will enroll in the agency's expedited security checkpoint
program.
And one day travelers will be able to use
fingerprints or some other biometric identifiers instead of paper or
electronic boarding passes.
Peter Neffenger, who has been on the job as TSA administrator for four weeks, went before the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday
and said it was a "huge concern" that the agency's officers failed to
identify bombs, weapons and other security threats 96 percent of the
time during recent undercover testing.
"It greatly disturbs me to know that we had that failure rate at the checkpoint," he said.
Full article available here: New TSA Chief Vows Improvement
Source: NBC News
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