1. Also in step with the House GOP plan, the bill places oversight authority of the security screeners with the Department of Transportation. 2. And please do not burden the overworked and underpaid airline security screeners by insisting that you always use your pool cue as a walking stick between games. 3. Any action the president suggests on security screeners could be controversial. 4. A security screener went over the controller with a hand wand and waived her through, failing to find the gun. 5. But we shall resist the cheap shot here and reach for a more sober assessment of airport security screeners. 6. Each visitor passes through security screeners and sits at a one-armed school desk to fill out a questionnaire. 7. House members on Wednesday debated the sensitive issue of whether airport security screeners should use ethnicity and nationality in picking passengers for extra scrutiny. 8. In fact, some of the threats to which airport security screeners pay the closest attention seem distinctly unthreatening to typical passengers. 9. In their search for the black smudge, security screeners at KCI found nothing more suspicious than a bottle of Brut aftershave. 10. Instead, they had air travelers to watch and private security screeners to assist. |