DHS questioned over decision to let Saudi passengers skip normal passport controls

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A Department of Homeland Security program intended to give "trusted traveler"  status to low-risk airline passengers soon will be extended to Saudi travelers,  opening the program to criticism for accommodating the country that produced 15  of the 19 hijackers behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Read more:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/20/decision-to-extend-trusted-traveler-program-to-saudi-scrutinized/?test=latestnews#ixzz2OAhBwAkr

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  • i said this before we don't need stinking dhs or tsa,if ther would have been 190 armed law abiding american citizens on those planes .9/11 would have NEVER HAVE HAPPNED!!!and that's  a fact

  • trusted traveler huh thats almost funny.What exempts them from the same "drill" we are subject to? Just another bs muslim exception that Odumba has probably secretly approved

  • "Stupidity and arrogance in the same package how efficient."  That quote is from the TV series Babylon 5 and it applies so well to DHS.

  • Site admin, please delete duplicate posts.

  • My sincere apologies for the multiple posts!  The web page never looked as though it never posted.

  • While in an airport in Baltimore, one year after 911, I (obviously American with a southern accent) was pulled to the side along with a young and pretty woman (also obviously American), and security rifled through our luggage, as middle-eastern men wearing turbans freely walked by... I was wondering about the logic behind that.  Maybe the security guards were too busy drooling over that pretty young lady and the lingerie in her suitcase.  They practically were sniffing her panties.  That's our tax dollars at work!

  • I can't believe the stupidity in all this. just maybe we need to make a little more effort to keep this trash out and leave 3 yr olds in wheel chairs alone.

  • While in an airport in Baltimore, one year after 911, I (obviously American with a southern accent) was pulled to the side along with a young and pretty caucasion woman, and security rifled through our luggage, as middle-eastern men wearing turbans freely walked by... I was wondering about the logic behind that.  Maybe the security guards were too busy drooling over that pretty young lady and the lingerie in her suitcase.  They practically were sniffing her panties.  That's our tax dollars at work!

  • While in an airport in Baltimore, one year after 911, I (obviously American with a southern accent) was pulled to the side along with a young and pretty caucasion woman, and security rifled through our luggage, as middle-eastern men wearing turbans freely walked by... I was wondering about the logic behind that.  Maybe the security guards were too busy drooling over that pretty young lady and the lingerie in her suitcase.  They practically were sniffing her panties.  That's our tax dollars at work!

  • While in an airport in Baltimore, one year after 911, I (obviously American with a southern accent) was pulled to the side along with a young and pretty caucasion woman, and security rifled through our luggage, as middle-eastern men wearing turbans freely walked by... I was wondering about the logic behind that.  Maybe the security guards were too busy drooling over that pretty young lady and the lingerie in her suitcase.  They practically were sniffing her panties.  That's our tax dollars at work!

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