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The Transportation Security Administration is considering eliminating passenger screening at more than 150 small and medium-sized airports across the US, according to senior agency officials and internal documents obtained by CNN.
The proposal, if implemented, would mark a major change for air travel in the US, following nearly two decades of TSA presence since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and comes as the Trump administration has stepped up screening measures for items such as laptops and tablets.
Internal documents from a TSA working group say the proposal to cut screening at small and some medium-sized airports serving aircraft with 60 seats or fewer could bring a "small (non-zero) undesirable increase in risk related to additional adversary opportunity."
The internal documents from June and July suggest the move could save $115 million annually, money that could be used to bolster security at larger airports.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:37PM
they just need to do a check against a federal database when you buy your ticket. in 2 seconds, approved or not. make the no fly lists nice and legal and fair (no americans not currently *wanted for a crime*, convenient remedies for others, etc.). no other mandated screening in airports at all. If a particular airliner wants to screen they can try different things and see what the market will bear. if the feds want to do something maybe only armed security for people trying to brute force their way in. only ticket holders allowed in past a certain area. instead they violate and subjugate everyday americans while they aid foreign fighters/terrorists and help the israelis blow up the twin towers so we can help them build the Greater Israel and make a little money for the MIC. we need to round up the real terrorists (in the government).