{"id":335159,"date":"2010-02-18T10:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=19957"},"modified":"2010-02-18T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:52:37","slug":"tsa-to-swab-more-palms-at-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335159","title":{"rendered":"TSA to swab more palms at airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19965\" title=\"TSA-hand-swab-airports\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TSA-hand-swab-airports-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/>CHICAGO &#8212; You may get your hand swabbed the next time you take a flight out of O\u2019Hare or Midway.<\/p>\n<p>TSA security agents have been swabbing luggage for years for signs of explosives, and now they are going to start doing it to people.<\/p>\n<p>The increased swabbing was ordered by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as part of a suite of measures to improve airport security. <span id=\"more-19957\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The swab contains a chemical that can detect traces of explosive materials.<\/p>\n<p>The measure could take place when you check in, when you pass through security or at the boarding gate.<\/p>\n<p>TSA is expanding the way it screens for explosives following the failed attempt to blow up a flight into Detroit on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"TSA to Swab More Palms at Airports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/dpp\/news\/metro\/tsa-swab-palms-airport-security\"  rel='nofollow'>FOX Chicago News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8fRHyRu-s92pZGMNKhg6qYx4LH4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8fRHyRu-s92pZGMNKhg6qYx4LH4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8fRHyRu-s92pZGMNKhg6qYx4LH4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8fRHyRu-s92pZGMNKhg6qYx4LH4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=1ABoTLmcdBA:bwKOLyH1eCQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=1ABoTLmcdBA:bwKOLyH1eCQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=1ABoTLmcdBA:bwKOLyH1eCQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=1ABoTLmcdBA:bwKOLyH1eCQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/1ABoTLmcdBA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; You may get your hand swabbed the next time you take a flight out of O\u2019Hare or Midway. TSA security agents have been swabbing luggage for years for signs of explosives, and now they are going to start doing it to people. The increased swabbing was ordered by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}