Get a clue!
The US public could have told the TSA this obvious fact....security screeners are spending so much time looking for lighters they can't look for bombs. DUH.
It's about time. Aren't you sick of the idiot screeners who seem to get pleasure out of making all of us wait and stand in looooong lines.
"The nation's aviation security chief says Congress should lift a ban on passengers carrying lighters on airplanes because screeners are spending too much time looking for lighters instead of bombs.
"The lighter ban does not add to security anymore," Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley told USA TODAY on Wednesday. Forcing screeners to confiscate lighters at checkpoints "is a distraction from the serious nature of finding (bomb) components." Hawley said he has briefed lawmakers and "recommended they consider whether that ban needs to stay." Congress enacted the ban in late 2004 in response to concerns that a terrorist could light explosives on an airplane, as "shoe bomber" Richard Reid attempted on a trans-Atlantic jetliner in late 2001. The ban took effect in April 2005."
"The lighter ban does not add to security anymore," Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley told USA TODAY on Wednesday. Forcing screeners to confiscate lighters at checkpoints "is a distraction from the serious nature of finding (bomb) components." Hawley said he has briefed lawmakers and "recommended they consider whether that ban needs to stay." Congress enacted the ban in late 2004 in response to concerns that a terrorist could light explosives on an airplane, as "shoe bomber" Richard Reid attempted on a trans-Atlantic jetliner in late 2001. The ban took effect in April 2005."
