IP: Why we have a terrorism problem with our airlines

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:20:15 -0800
> To: farber () eff org
> From: Stanton McCandlish <mech () eff org>
>
> [From News of the Weird:]
>
> Port of Oakland (Calif.) commissioners ordered a full inquiry in October on
> why 1,000 secure-area access badges to Oakland International Airport were
> missing. However, the FAA had come down hard on the airport only because 1,000
> badges was too many, in that regulations permit that airport to have only 500
> unaccounted-for access badges. [sfgate.com-AP, 10-24-01]
>
> [Multiply that by number of airports in the US.]
>
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