Panel To Call For National ID Cards - 9/11

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:29:46 GMT

Requiring national identification cards and upgrading security at what they described as the totally unsupervised area of private aviation, were two recommendations offered Thursday by a panel of current and former law enforcement officials. The all-volunteer commission advocates a security survey of all of the nation's smaller private airports, pilot background checks, and the screening of cargo and baggage. Private airplanes can take off totally unsupervised, leaving a loophole the size of the Lincoln Tunnel, said state Sen. Roy Goodman, the chair of the senate Investigations Committee, who formed the panel after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. There is an enormous urgency to this.