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Opinion: With the DHS shutdown dragging on, is it time to privatize airport security?
Exploring airport security privatization should be on every airport’s to-do list.
On any given morning at major U.S. airports, thousands of travelers move through security checkpoints staffed by Transportation Security Administration officers responsible for identifying threats in a matter of seconds.
Travelers at airports like San Francisco, Orlando Sanford, and Kansas City have not faced security delays due to the partial government shutdown.
Sen. Chuck Grassley said the dispute partly at the center of the dispute between DHS and its inspector general concerns undercover testing of TSA screening procedures.