In a Wall Street Journal op/ed today, Kip Hawley, former head of the Transportation Security Administration from 2005-2009, has some radical suggestions for how to increase airport safety -- and they're in direct opposition to everything we do now.
He argues that the TSA needs to embrace two basic principles before it can make any significant improvements in both travel security and convenience.
First, the TSA's mission is to prevent a catastrophic attack on the transportation system, not to ensure that every single passenger can avoid harm while traveling. Much of the friction in the system...











Mex-Min-Interior-Sec José Mora said that 84 million Mexicans could qualify for the Global Entry program.
Global Entry kiosks under the trusted traveler program have been installed at 20 US airports, according to the CBP website.
12-9-2010 - As violent drug cartels take over Mexico and expand their criminal enterprises north, the USA under Obama has signed a
“Trusted-Traveler” agreement that allows pre-screened Mexican airline passengers to; get "Trusted-Traveler-cards" with fingerprints, other biometric data, bypass lengthy airport security checkpoints.
judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/dec/trusted-traveler-program-lets-mexicans-skip-airport-security