Administration to Seek Balance in Airport Screening

(New York Times) — Amid the uproar that airport screening has become too intrusive, some Americans are now asking why the United States cannot do it like the Israelis.  Representative John L. Mica, Republican of Florida and a critic of the Obama administration’s new screening methods, says theTransportation Security Administration should look at Israel, which uses early detection techniques at airports. An editorial in The Washington Times last week praised El Al, the Israeli national airline, as employing the “smarter approach” of using “sophisticated intelligence analysis which allows them to predict which travelers constitute a possible threat and which do not.”

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