DHS secretary seeks to improve airport screening

March 6, 2008

“Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate panel Tuesday that the government needs to look for new ways to improve airport screening.

Chertoff told the Senate Appropriations Committee panel that he has instructed the head of the Transportation Security Administration to think “outside the box” and come up with ways to “re-engineer the process” in the next 30 to 45 days.” (CNN)