Query: What, nowadays, is *not* a threat to homeland security?
1. Airport drug bust heightens debate over non-federal forces
By Chris Strohm
A recent drug bust at Kennedy International Airport shows that the use
of workers from private companies in sensitive security jobs poses a
substantial risk, federal airport screeners argued Monday.
Government agents arrested 20 baggage and cargo handlers at Kennedy last
Tuesday and charged them with slipping tens of millions of dollars worth
of cocaine and marijuana past security checkpoints during the last
decade. Authorities said the workers were employed by American Airlines,
Delta Airlines, United Airlines and five smaller companies: Globe Ground
North American, Evergreen Eagle, Hudson General, Swissport USA and
Flying Foods.
The operation represented a potential threat to homeland security,
said Michael Garcia, acting head of the Bureau of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement.
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