The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration has announced that by 2010 they will screen all cargo on passenger planes. This means freight packages, often shipped by manufacturers, which are stored beneath a plane’s passenger cabins.

But USA Today’s Thomas Frank reports that the plan relies on the packing and shipping companies doing the screening voluntarily. TSA also has no plan to pay for screening equipment and screeners. So who is making sure the cargo is screened?  Read Frank here.  MB

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