Airline security measures untested

From: The Washington Times | October 30, 2009 

The government has installed high-tech passenger screening equipment at airports without fully measuring whether the technologies address the most serious risks to aviation, congressional auditors found. Most of the decisions to introduce new passenger screening devices at airports have been based on threats described in intelligence reports. While this is important, the Government Accountability Office said these threats also need to be measured against how vulnerable air systems are to them and against the full consequences if a threat were successfully carried out. The auditors said the Transportation Security Administration has not completed this full assessment of threat, vulnerability and …

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