TSA increases security measures on DC flights, including some second ID checks

[Wicked Blue]

CNN
Greg Wallace, Pete Muntean and Jeremy Diamond

Heightened airport security measures around inauguration in some cases include a second screening of passengers boarding flights, the Transportation Security Administration acknowledged to CNN.

The second check at the boarding gate is in addition to the standard screening procedures done at TSA checkpoints.

“This is a routine practice and represents one of the multiple layers of security that we employ,” agency spokesperson Carter Langston told CNN when asked about an account of TSA officers stopping passengers at the gate of a Washington-bound flight to check identification and bags.

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The screening of DC-bound passengers is in addition to a heightened security and police presence at the three Washington-area airports that has included armored vehicles and a notable number of visible officers in terminals.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-trump-impeachment-vote-01-13-21/

[Arne]

1. Onboard air marshals have the authority to grab the bastards.

[Submariner]

2. They will be X-raying checked luggage for guns and ammo

the poor boys will be pissed.