Security

“The leak really did endanger sources and methods,” she said on Fox News Sunday. 

Obama's budget proposes a 52-percent cut in the flight deck officer program, which trains pilots on handling firearms.

Janet Napolitano said officials don't weed through the tweets of incoming travelers in an attempt to spot potential terrorists.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday tweeted out the text of the speech he was going to give at Monday’s March for Life rally had it not been for his high-profile run-in with the Transportation Security Administration.

The House on Friday morning approved the rule for H.R. 2838, a bill that would reauthorize the Coast Guard through 2014. Members approved the rule in a 245-166 vote.

In earlier debate, Democrats objected to language in the bill that would set a single, nationwide standard for ballast water discharge for commercial oceangoing vessels.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano should be replaced as the head of the agency charged with protecting the country against terrorism, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) said this week.

Appearing on the Fox Business channel for an interview with Lou Dobbs, Mica criticized Napolitano's recent announcement that most children under 12 years old would no longer be subjected to pat-downs at airport security.

Mica, who has frequently criticized the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and pushed to privatize airport security, said the announcement telegraphed U.S. anti-terrorism techniques.

"I think it's time for Napolitano to go," he said in the interview with Dobbs. "She doesn't have a clue."

Your morning transportation speed-read:

A passenger at Kansas City's International Airport has been charged after faking a bomb threat on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.

No charges will be filed against passengers on a Detroit flight that made an emergency landing after they were locked in a bathroom on Sept. 11.

Airline delays were down over the summer.

A Southwest Airlines maintenance contractor has been fined by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

Jitters on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks forced a flight to make an emergency landing in Denver.

Security was boosted on Amtrak trains as well.

More D.C. residents are ditching their cars.

Researchers argue that it's drivers, not cars, that waste fuel.

The State Department is warning U.S. citizens traveling abroad about the threat from al Qaeda and its affiliates.

An amendment to the intelligence authorization bill that would place a higher priority on making sure railways are secure was approved Friday by the House.

The amendment, sponsored by Rep. John Carney (D-Del.), was approved on a 221-189 vote that was scheduled after the measure failed on a voice vote Thursday.

Carney said it was important to direct the intelligence agencies to step up their efforts to secure railways in the wake of the discovery that terrorist Osama bin Laden was plotting attacks on them before he was killed by U.S. forces.

“Today’s legislation will ensure that the U.S. government places a priority on ensuring the safety of rail passengers around the country by working to prevent a terrorist attack on our rail system,” Carney said in a statement after the roll call vote Friday.