Handing airport screening duties to private companies could result in another terrorist attack like Sept. 11, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said Tuesday afternoon.
The Federal Aviation Administration authorization bill awaiting President Barack Obama?s signature directs the Transportation Security Administration to let more airports privatize their screening areas.
Continue Reading?My comment: we are looking forward to returning to 9/11,? Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said at a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing.
TSA chief John Pistole said the new bill would open the program to all 450 U.S. airports that currently use TSA screeners.
Rep. Jerry Costello (D-Ill.) rhetorically asked why Republicans would limit their privatization quest to airport screeners.
?I think if we?re going to start contracting out the security of the flying public, then why don?t we contract out the FBI or DEA or Secret Service or Capitol Hill Police?? he said in an interview.
Costello, a former police officer, said screening should remain in the hands of trained professionals, not companies looking to make a profit.
?Security is, in my judgment, a function for professional law enforcement officials and should not go to the lowest bidder and that?s what you have when you contract out,? he said. ?The safety of the traveling public should not be jeopardized in order to save money.?
Airlines were in charge of hiring screening companies prior to the creation of TSA in late 2001.
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