A nationwide registered traveler program can provide expedited screening for many travelers and enhance aviation security as well.

By incorporating unpredictability into our procedures and eliminating low-threat items, we can better focus our efforts on stopping individuals who wish to do us harm.

In view of our need to establish trust with all of our stakeholders on the security and privacy of our systems and data, my priority is to ensure that we do it right, not just that we do it quickly.

It is paramount to the security of our aviation system that terrorists not be able to know with certainty what screening procedures they will encounter at airports around the nation. By incorporating unpredictability into our procedures and eliminating low-threat items, we can better focus our efforts on stopping individuals who wish to do us harm.

It was simply an issue of 'Why am I paying the money? We learned what we needed to learn.

This is the time to ensure that Secure Flight's security, operational and privacy foundation is solid.

They've been told to look for parts, not just bombs, etc.

Scissors with blades less than four inches (10 centimeters) long and tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers that are less than seven inches (18 centimeters) will be removed from the prohibited items list on December 22.

Scissors with blades less than four inches long and tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers that are less than seven inches will be removed from the prohibited items list on December 22.

Sorting through thousands of bags a day to pull out small tools doesn't help security, it hurts it.