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...FirstDefender, is a handheld chemical identification system about the size of a hardcover book. The FBI, U.S. Customs and Immigration and the Department of Homeland Security have already begun using the gadget to detect and identify chemical hazards, but it hasn't yet been implemented in airports. The TSA recently deployed two $160,000 explosives detection machines for Chicago's Midway International Airport, but those machines, known as puffers, aren't made to identify sealed liquids. The agency has yet to put into place FirstDefender devices, which cost about $30,000, though it now confirms that it is testing...
...Average number of lighters the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confiscates daily at airport checkpoints...
...Percentage of TSA-seized goods that are lighters, one of 68 items passengers are forbidden to carry on planes...
...Average number of cigarette lighters the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confiscates daily at airport checkpoints 80% Percentage of TSA-seized goods that are lighters, one of 68 items passengers are barred from carrying on planes...
...SPOT program comes none too soon, since the current TSA system of screening for threats on airplanes has been, well, spotty. Earlier this month TSA screeners not trained in the SPOT program pulled over three Marines in dress uniform for special screening. After being patted down and scrutinized closely, the Marines were finally let go and allowed to continue their duties - escorting the body of one of their colleagues killed in Iraq...