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...promulgate all the regulations that the Secretary of Transportation wants, but the problem is who enforces them," says Charles Slepian, a New York-based attorney and outspoken critic of the FAA. "You cannot declare war against terrorists and then ask Continental Airlines to fight the battle...
...chief of police at Dallas/Fort Worth airport. "Either privatize it, make it strictly government-run or under airport control. Just not the airlines." In the past, it was assumed that neither the government nor industry wanted to make this change. But the Air Transport Association has met with the FAA and Department of Transportation to argue that federalizing airport security may be the only answer. "This was an attack on national security, and that inherently is a government function," says Mike Wascom, spokesman for the A.T.A. The public agrees, according to the new TIME/CNN poll...
...series of government oversight reports have served as a stinging indictment of the sorry performance here at home. Passenger screeners routinely miss about 20% of the weapons and explosives that FAA agents try to slip by them, according to the General Accounting Office (GAO). FAA agents have also found that it is easy to pose as an airport or airline employee or even as a law-enforcement agent...
...past year, the agency, and not just the airlines, has gained certification authority over private security contractors, which, theoretically at least, should help weed out the worst performers. The FAA's new background-check guidelines may also help, but as usual, they are filled with loopholes. All security workers who started before Dec. 23, 2000, are grandfathered and don't have to be checked against a database for criminal records...
...half those interviewed in the TIME/CNN poll said it would be acceptable to profile by age, race and gender to help identify suspicious passengers. And thanks to a new software program dubbed the Threat Image Protection System that will soon appear on X-ray machines across the nation, the FAA will periodically be able to paint virtual images of guns or explosives onto the monitor to test and better prepare screeners for the real thing...