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 WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Transportation Security Administration defended the agency's decision to allow small scissors and sharp tools onto planes, insisting at a Senate hearing Monday that it will make air travel safer.
"Sorting through thousands of bags a day to pull out small tools doesn't help security, it hurts it," TSA chief Kip Hawley said, explaining that the move will allow airport screeners to focus more on detecting bombs.
"The list of items that are now permitted on planes that could be turned into weapons is almost limitless," he said, citing pens, keys, belts and bare hands. "We must focus our attention on the far more dangerous threat of explosives."
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