By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is taking airport security up a notch.
USA Today reports that airport screeners in a few weeks will begin randomly going up to people at airport security checkpoint lines or at gates and taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives. Metal detectors cannot detect such material.
The paper reported that the program has already been tested at five airports since the Christmas Day bombing incident in Detroit.
A private security analyst told USA Today that random checks will “create increasing uncertainty for the adversaries, which is always positive.”
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