Slipping through Security
Last fall I criticized the network newscasts for their paucity of enterprise reporting. Few of the stories I watched featured original reporting beyond the daily march of official events. But Monday evening CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian came through with a strong example of enterprise work. His "Airport Security Has Gaping Hole" reveals that while passengers, pilots and flight attendants are carefully screened at airport checkpoints, nearly 700,000 airport employees across the country — including cleaners, catering and ramp workers — can breeze through security with the simple flash of a badge that can be borrowed, stolen or copied. In most cases these badges, Keteyian reports, allow workers access in and around airplanes. Video shot with the cooperation of an airport employee shows just how easy it is for one of these workers to slip through security and get on a plane.
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