Officials feel furor of airport pat-downs
Clinton hopes to ‘avoid’ scan
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged Sunday that she considers tighter airport security uncomfortably intrusive, while the head of the Transportation Security Administration backed away some from his earlier hard-line defense of pat-downs and full body scans.
When asked in an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation” whether she would submit to a body scan, Mrs. Clinton said, “not if I could avoid it. No. I mean, who would?” She also said the Obama administration must find a way to “limit the number of people put through surveillance.”
TSA Administrator John Pistole said Sunday that the added security checks will continue despite public outcry and defended their use at roughly 70 U.S. airports.
“No, we’re not changing the policies,” Mr. Pistole said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
But later in the day, he released a statement saying the agency would try to make screening “as minimally invasive as possible,” though he did not elaborate on any imminent or specific changes. He had acknowledged in his CNN interview that “we’re looking for ways to diminish the impact.”
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Harold
