Portable TSA

By Matt Hawes

Via CNN:

The Transportation Security Administration soon will begin randomly swabbing passengers’ hands at checkpoints and airport gates to test them for traces of explosives….

Under the new protocols, tests will be conducted at various locations — including in checkpoint lines, during the screening process and at gates. Newer, more portable machines make it easier to conduct tests away from fixed locations such as the checkpoint….

So once you’re through the checkpoint, you’re possibly still not done anymore.  Score another one for the land of the free.

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