{"id":24612,"date":"2010-11-15T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T03:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=24612"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:53:26","slug":"officials-defend-new-airport-screening-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/officials-defend-new-airport-screening-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Defend New Airport Screening Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland security officials on Monday defended heightened airport security screening measures but said they would consider adjustments<!--more--> to new rigorous patdowns after complaints from travelers.<\/p>\n<p>With the busy holiday travel season about to begin, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made it clear that new full-body scan checks would become the routine as hundreds of the machines are installed at U.S. airports and that the alternative would be physical patdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there are adjustments we need to make to these procedures as we move forward, we have an open ear; we will listen,&#8221; she told reporters during a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20101115\/us_nm\/us_usa_security_screening\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=cca264c6-4f1e-4ba6-abb3-8ab21f5a820d\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland security officials on Monday defended heightened airport security screening measures but said they would consider adjustments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[700],"tags":[535,8295,1980,8071,1543,2304,1015,1513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24612"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24620,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions\/24620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}