tsa screening manual
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called for disciplinary action against those responsible for on-line job guide U.S. security at airports, and has called for an investigation of the leak.
The address was 93 Transportation Security Administration on the document on the spring-page federal public website and was the last technical details and procedures for screening operations, metal detectors and explosives detection systems at U.S. airports.
It was labeled "sensitive Information Security" and dated May 28, 2008.
Napolitano told a Senate panel that the manual date, but that disciplinary action be initiated against those involved in posting the document on an external contractor and the TSA supervisors.
"We also asked (DHS) Inspector General to make their own independent research to supplement and complement our assessment," she told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"There was the safety of passengers in danger," she said, adding that some of the information on the manual was already public.
The document also published on-line information designed to keep confidential, as should people with passports from a dozen countries put forward for further examination. They were Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen and Algeria.
, Provided that the addition of sample pictures of the species identifications of the law that may be present at airport checkpoints, between the CIA to members of Congress.
"It is clear that one could use the things," said Republican Senator Jon Kyl Napolitano of the department's recommendation to assess any damage to release the document.
Security at U.S. airports was increased significantly after September 11, 2001 attacks, when 19 hijackers commanded four planes with box cutter knives and three of them crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called for disciplinary action against those responsible for on-line job guide U.S. security at airports, and has called for an investigation of the leak.
The address was 93 Transportation Security Administration on the document on the spring-page federal public website and was the last technical details and procedures for screening operations, metal detectors and explosives detection systems at U.S. airports.
It was labeled "sensitive Information Security" and dated May 28, 2008.
Napolitano told a Senate panel that the manual date, but that disciplinary action be initiated against those involved in posting the document on an external contractor and the TSA supervisors.
"We also asked (DHS) Inspector General to make their own independent research to supplement and complement our assessment," she told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"There was the safety of passengers in danger," she said, adding that some of the information on the manual was already public.
The document also published on-line information designed to keep confidential, as should people with passports from a dozen countries put forward for further examination. They were Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen and Algeria.
, Provided that the addition of sample pictures of the species identifications of the law that may be present at airport checkpoints, between the CIA to members of Congress.
"It is clear that one could use the things," said Republican Senator Jon Kyl Napolitano of the department's recommendation to assess any damage to release the document.
Security at U.S. airports was increased significantly after September 11, 2001 attacks, when 19 hijackers commanded four planes with box cutter knives and three of them crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
