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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
But although the known traveler gets screened, assuming I am reading your passport correctly, the baggage is screened through the X-ray machine and the passenger goes through a metal detector, but there would not be the kind of screening that is done with an AIT or an ATR, where you would see non-metallic explosives concealed on the body.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Senator Collins discusses the limitations of current traveler screening methods.

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