(OPINION) ETH – The following is an excerpt from The Atlantic written by Juliette Kayyem, who was a former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama and is currently is the faculty chair of the homeland-security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
She is the author of Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home. “When you go to the airport, you see two kinds of security rules. Some apply equally to everyone; no one can carry weapons through the TSA checkpoint. But other protocols divide passengers into categories according to how much of a threat the government thinks they pose.
If you submit to heightened scrutiny in advance, TSA PreCheck lets you go through security without taking off your shoes; a no-fly list keeps certain people off the plane entirely. Not everyone poses an equal threat. Rifling through the bags of every business […]
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