Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports: WSJ

DHS Report Says Noem Policy Weakened Airport Security

Published 38 minutes ago • loading… • Updated 9 hours ago A classified November DHS report found that allowing shoes on at airport screening created vulnerabilities; the report was reclassified and withheld from public release, officials said. On Friday, a classified Department of Homeland Security inspector general report found some TSA full-body scanners can’t scan shoes and that Noem’s shoes-on policy created a security vulnerability, which …

Kristi Noem accused of creating ‘significant’ security risks at airports, report says

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President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is under fire for allegedly allowing a major security failure under her watch — and a conservative media outlet broke the big story.“Noem for months failed to appropriately respond to the findings of an internal watchdog that one of her biggest changes to airport security—allowing passengers to pass through screening checkpoints with their shoes on—is creating ‘significant’ secu…

Kristi Noem caught covering up key flaw in her own security policy for months

A policy championed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to speed up Transportation Security Administration lines at airports in fact had a key security flaw — but when it was reported to her, the Department classified it and kept it buried for months, reported the Wall Street Journal on Friday.The policy is one of the few undertaken by Noem's DHS that has enjoyed considerable bipartisan support: ending requirements for people to remove th…

Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports

Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports

“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for months failed to appropriately respond to the findings of an internal watchdog that one of her biggest changes to airport security—allowing passengers to pass through screening checkpoints with their shoes on—is creating ‘significant’ security risks,” the Wall Street Journal reports.