Kerry Says U.S. Should Handle Airport Security
From Wire and Staff Reports
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) said he would draft legislation that would take responsibility for U.S. airport security away from the airlines and turn it over to the federal government.
“We must ask the federal government to assume the burden of airport security because I don’t think the airlines can afford it,” Kerry told a news conference in Boston.
The two hijacked flights that leveled the World Trade Center’s twin towers both originated at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
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