The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee blasted the media on Tuesday for their coverage of new airport security measures in the run-up to the 2010 holiday season, saying "absolutely irresponsible" news stories suggested airport screeners were "more dangerous than [Usama] bin Laden."
"I come from an area that lost over 400 people on 9/11," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said during an event at Georgetown University celebrating the eighth anniversary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "I don't mind going through the detectors. I don't mind being checked out."
Memo to King: STOP invoking 9/11, please. We are tired of it!
And from Tom Ridge in the link:
Ridge, meanwhile, said he wants "the public to be reassured" that TSA officers "go to work every day doing the best they can."
If what we have is the best they can do, it's a sad state of affairs.
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At least we are hitting an exposed nerve - so that's a good thing.