TSA looks to expedite screening for air cargo on US-bound passenger planes

The Transportation Security Administration announced today it will move forward with a plan to expedite air-cargo screening program by two years. “Just last year, the TSA told Congress that screening 100 percent of international in-bound air cargo would be delayed until at least 2013. But TSA is looking to accelerate that timetable after the terrorist bombing attempt in late October, in which explosives were secreted inside printer cartridges sent from Yemen to Chicago - and were intended to blow up in cargo holds of passenger jets while they were in the air.” Read more here.