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Thanks to the new airport-security bill passed in Congress last November, airline security has been taken out of the hands of the FAA and given to the newly created federal Transportation Security Administration. But many of the changes that were supposed to be carried out by the TSA either haven't been implemented or have been killed by compromise. Federal baggage screeners are in place at only 15 of the country's 429 airports, and the TSA has not yet bought the 2,000 large detection devices it aims to have operating within nine months to inspect checked baggage...
Alarmed at the lab reports, FBI director Bob Mueller sent an urgent alert to the FAA, air-security personnel and the law-enforcement community. He ordered agents based in Europe to find out how Reid had acquired the explosives...
Olympic officials hope to turn the city itself into a secure environment. Anyone entering the seven-block pedestrian zone known as Olympic Square will be searched. Sensors will monitor the local food, air and water supplies for chemical and biological toxins. And the FAA has created a no-fly zone called the "Olympic Ring" for commercial and private planes that encompasses a 45-mile radius from Salt Lake International Airport. Even so, insists Salt Lake Olympic Committee president Mitt Romney, "once you're inside the secure perimeter, it will feel and look just like prior Games...
...worker in Malta and on two connecting flights was never matched to a passenger. Congressman Jim Oberstar called the bag-match loophole "the Achilles' heel in the security system." A rule scheduled to take effect in December would require screening of all bags. But fewer than 10% of the FAA-approved machines needed are available...
That focus includes the coordination of intelligence gathering, long considered a weak spot. Remember, two of the hijackers were on the CIA's watch list, but the information never got to the airlines. According to FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, the CIA and FBI and the FAA and airlines are now moving to share what they know--or at least they say they...