{"id":2977,"date":"2010-01-05T14:32:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2010-01-05T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:53:02","slug":"president-to-announce-airline-safety-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2977\/president-to-announce-airline-safety-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"President to Announce Airline Safety Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the attempted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, President Obama is set <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/05\/new-airline-safety-measur_n_411501.html\" target=\"_blank\">to release<\/a> a new wave of airport security measures.<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has responded somewhat by giving pat-downs to travelers from Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and 11 other countries that are havens for terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab, was already in a U.S. database of 550,000 suspected terrorists, but that did not subject him to additional scrutiny under current law.\u00a0 No word yet on whether the President&#8217;s new proposals will change this practice.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of CFIF on <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/tag\/homeland-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Homeland Security<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/tag\/terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the attempted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, President Obama is set to release a new wave of airport security measures. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has responded somewhat by giving pat-downs to travelers from Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and 11 other countries that are havens for terrorist activity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[678,24,14,536,683],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-homeland-security","tag-obama","tag-president-obama","tag-terrorism","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}