Airport Hell

Only 900 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers oversee private-industry security workers who screen a fraction of the 23 billion pounds of goods transported within the United States on passenger and cargo planes.

This "is a disaster waiting to happen,'' said Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican who's co-sponsoring legislation to improve cargo security. "We're checking luggage, but not cargo? It only takes a pound or two of explosives'' to blow up a plane.

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