Napolitano: Scanners, Pat Downs Here to Stay
USA Today reports:
The nation's controversial airport pat-downs and full-body scanners are here to stay, at least for now.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the systems on CNN this morning, crediting them with preventing unknown numbers of potentially dangerous devices from making their way on to airplanes.
"The new technology, the pat-downs, is just objectively safer for our traveling public," Napolitano said. "We pick up contraband now, and we pick up more contraband with the new procedures and the new machinery. What we know is that you can't measure the devices that we are deterring from going on a plane."
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