The inconveniences and hassles associated with air travel these days — removing shoes and liquids at airport security checkpoints, for example — are here to stay, John Pistole, chief of the Transportation Security Administration, said Friday.
Pistole, appearing at the Aspen Security Forum in a one-on-one interview with ABC “Nightline” co-anchor Terry Moran, spent more than an hour explaining the TSA’s missions and vulnerabilities before a packed audience at the Aspen Meadows’ Doerr-Hosier Center.
“Clearly we’ve had success in not having a repeat of 9/11,” Pistole said, noting that, “We can’t go back to the pre-9/11 days.”
That is, unless, travelers are enrolled in TSA’s PreCheck program. For $100 and a background check, flyers can avoid body scans and dropping their shoes, belt, jacket, laptop, toiletries and other potentially suspicious items at the TSA checkpoints.
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