Christmas Day bomber

Ned Levi welcomes DHS’ announcement it’s dropping TSA’s draconian security screening measures for passengers flying to the US, in favor of real-time, threat-based intelligence based screening, a hallmark of the Israeli security model, but laments TSA domestically still clings to technology to scan for banned items for primary screening, instead of looking for terrorists themselves.

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Ned Levi examines TSA’s new random hand swabbing program to detect explosive residue on airplane passengers and finds that it’s unlikely to work, despite claims of security experts, mostly because they’ve focused on the equipment, and not the overall security program of which they are a part.

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