In a speech at the Wings Club in New York, Bethune urged Congress and the administration to free the Transportation Security Administration, created last fall in the wake of 9/11, to use its expertise to determine appropriate methods and deadlines for customer and baggage screening. Under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, Congress set several arbitrary deadlines by which the TSA would accomplish certain key functions.

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