Air Cargo Screening “Disaster Waiting To Happen”…Bush “Doesn't Want To Tell His Private-Sector Friends They Have A Responsibility To Protect Against Terrorist Attack”… Air Cargo Screening “Disaster Waiting To Happen”…Bush “Does

Air Cargo Screening “Disaster Waiting To Happen”…Bush “Doesn't Want To Tell His Private-Sector Friends They Have A Responsibility To Protect Against Terrorist Attack”… Air Cargo Screening “Disaster Waiting To Happen”…Bush “Does

Only 900 Transportation Security Administration workers oversee private-industry security workers who screen a fraction of the 23 billion pounds of goods transported within the U.S. on passenger and cargo planes.

This ``is a disaster waiting to happen,'' said Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican who's co-sponsoring legislation to improve cargo security. ``We're checking luggage but not cargo? It only takes a pound or two of explosives'' to blow up a plane.

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