NationalJournal.com - White House Fights Pat-Down Backlash - Monday, November 22, 2010


Transportation Security Administration: The White House and the Department of Homeland Security indicated today that they won’t yield to demands to amend new airline passenger screening rules that have been decried as wildly intrusive.

PHOTOS: Department of Homeland Security in pictures

On the contrary, administration officials are quietly and aggressively defending the policies against what they see as a media frenzy of distorted information.

VIDEOS: Department of Homeland Security in videos

For instance, the administration noted that fewer than one half of one percent of the 34 million passengers who traveled on airplanes in o...

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