There’s GOOD NEWS for cartoonists, stand up comedians and bloggers:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that controversial new airport security procedures are likely to remain in place since they have been effective.
Some airline passengers and lawmakers have objected to the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policy, which includes full-body scans and pat-downs.
Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” if anything is going to change with the pat-down program, Napolitano said, “Not for the foreseeable future.”
The secretary called the procedures “objectively safer” for airline passengers and said they are part of a broader security strategy that involves cooperation with intelligence agencies, commercial airlines and international airports.
Let’s give TSA a hand. (OOPS! They got one already and it’s headed to someone’s “junk”..)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.