Airline passengers should get used to invasive full body scans and enhanced pat-downs, the Homeland Security secretary suggested Sunday.
CNN's Candy Crowley asked Janet Napolitano if she expected changes to the controversial Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening procedures in the near future.
"Not for the foreseeable future," Napolitano replied.
"You know we're always looking to improve systems and so forth, but the new technology, the pat-downs, just objectively safer for our traveling public," she said.
Crowley pressed Napolitano to explain how she could claim security is improving when a recent ABC News report found a nearly 70 percent failure rate at some major airports.
But the Homeland Security secretary brushed off those reports.
"I think I know the test to which you refer, many of them are very old, and out of date and there were all kinds of methodology issues with them. Let's set those aside," she said.
"We pick up more contraband with the new procedures," she added.
