Airport security may soon let shoes stay on

Homeland Security Department Secretary Janet Napolitano predicted Tuesday that airline passengers in the future will no longer be instructed to remove their shoes at airport security. But the technology to scan shoe-wearing passengers for bombs does not yet exist and may not be available soon.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

You won't have to remove shoes or belts, but you have to get the OK from an explosive-sniffing dog and an agent trained to detect suspicious behavior.To ease delays at airport security checkpoints, the Transportation Security Administration has launched a pilot program that lets average travelers speed to their planes without having to remove shoes, belts and coats or take laptops and liquids out of carry-on bags.

Anyone who flies has suffered the agony of long security lines, intrusive X-ray scans or pat downs, and confusing rules. But which airports incite the most frustration? As part of our first-ever airport survey, Travel + Leisure asked readers to rate the check-in and security process at 22 major domestic airports.

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the FBI wants to speak with two men seen in at least one video from the Boston Marathon but says she isn’t calling them suspects. Without providing details of the men’s appearance or what the video shows, Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday that “there is some video that raised the question” of individuals the FBI would like to interview.

Security lines at airports have nearly doubled in length since the beginning of the sequestration Friday night, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said on Monday.

This is a good post from Matt Yglesias:

Over the last year, 3 million travelers have zipped through special airport security checkpoints without having to remove their shoes, belts, coats or unpack their laptop computers, according to federal officials.