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TSA shuts door on private airport screening program
By Mike M. Ahlers and Jeanne Meserve, CNN
January 29, 2011 2:07 a.m. EST

Washington (CNN) -- A program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners is being brought to a standstill, just a month after the Transportation Security Administration said it was "neutral" on the program.

TSA chief John Pistole said Friday he has decided not to expand the program beyond the current 16 airports, saying he does not see any advantage to it...

..."If airports chose this route, we are going to work with them to do it," a TSA spokesman said in late December.

But on Friday, the TSA denied an application by Springfield-Branson Airport in Missouri to privatize its checkpoint workforce, and in a statement, Pistole indicated other applications likewise will be denied.

Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/01/29/tsa.private/index.html?hpt=T2

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