Reuters: US to ease flight rules: Chertoff

[Eugene]

US to ease flight rules: Chertoff
Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:40 AM EDT

By Diane Bartz

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Restrictions on U.S. airline travelers will likely
be eased sometime on Sunday but Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff said the threat of an attack on airliners remained.

The Transportation and Security Administration, or TSA, barred all liquids,
except baby formula and breast milk, from flights last week because of a plot
to bring down jetliners as they flew from London to the United States.

-snip-

"Later today, TSA will be announcing some minor refinements in the restrictions,
actually easing them in certain respects based on our experience of risk,"
Chertoff told the ABC news program "This Week."

"I do not see us moving to a total ban on hand baggage at this point," he added.
"With the measures we have regarding liquids, with the training we've given the
screeners and with the tools we have, we're capable of protecting the airlines
without the measure that would so inconvenience people of preventing them from
bringing anything on the plane."

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Full article: http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-13T154017Z_01_N13225180_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-USA-COL.XML

[leesa]

1. Starbucks checked in. Just a little drill to remind y'all to vote GOP

this fall...carry on.

[OnyxCollie]

4. Not Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts.

[tanyev]

2. "And thanks to all those who had to leave bottles of wine and

liquor behind. The TSA had some awesome parties this weekend!"

[SaneInSC]

3. wow

I was up all night reading/catching up on peoples comments about various stories here on DU and on one they said, "...and you watch, in just a couple of days these restrictions will be lifted by chertoff, and then sometime later an investigation will be called for..." and then I wake up to read this.

[EFerrari]

6. Hi there, SaneInSC and welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Chertoff is wearing a halo

That's a bizarre angle for that photo.

The article doesn't reveal much about how they will ease the restrictions or how soon. I'm betting the road warrior protests were VERY loud.

[Webster Green]

7. Chertoff should have been fired for not responding to Katrina...

Why is this incompetent, clueless asshole in charge of anything?