Changing the Screening Process

Ousman Kamara 9/29/14

ENG099

While reading “Administration to Seek Balance in Airport Screening,” Scott Shane states that the Obama administration is caught between objection of airport screening and new terror attacks on airplanes, but they are insisting that the actions they take are justified by the risks. According to Shane, if a body scanner spots something suspicious on a scan, or if a passenger decides not to participate in the scan they must undergo a physical search which passenger's have found intrusive. According to Shane both James Carafano a security specialist and Bruce Hoffman, a specialist on terrorism stated that they would offer counsel to the administration to reconsider screening procedures. James Carafano suggest restricting the body scans and pat-downs to travelers who raise suspicions would be more practical, while Bruce Hoffman suggests the administration move away from adding more layers of security for every passenger and consider an Israeli-style approach to identify passenger who pose a specific threat.