Newsstand - U.S. airports ponder a surplus of security

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/12/22/TampaBay/US_airports_ponder_a_.shtml

"Ryan Palmer, a Houston college student, hadn't flown since his Christmas holiday in Florida last year. At Tampa International Airport last week, Palmer said the security he encountered on this year's trip surprised him.

"Well, for one thing, the big guns are gone, and I guess I didn't know that," Palmer said, referring to the automatic weapons carried by National Guard troops patrolling airports at this time last year. "The new screeners look a lot more official than the other ones, and they're very thorough. But there are so many of them. Do they all have something to do?" "


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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry

The plan is that they'll soon have more to do -- one a bunch of them go into the bowels of the termianl and start rummaging through luggage without the owners of the luggage present...