By The Associated Press
Federal homeland security
officials should move faster to require rail and transit agencies
across the nation to screen their employees using federal terrorism
watch lists, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said.
The New York Democrat told The Associated Press on Saturday that the Department of Homeland Security
should immediately step in to enforce a recommendation made nearly a
decade ago that mass transit employees be crosschecked with the federal
watch lists.
"With terror threats from ISIS sympathizers and lone wolves ever
possible, it is just not acceptable that every single front line transit
employee is not checked against the federal terror watch list like
airlines do," Schumer said. "Railing for rail security is a no-brainer."
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Source: TimesUnion.com (via The Empire Report)
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