Jaunted

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security released some hot new footage of its own: DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano's entire press conference hit TSA's YouTube channel, and it... is... boring. Here's what you need to know: Napolitano is enlisting people with experience to examine each department and save millions of dollars for the DHS Efficiency Review Initiative.

Yes, it took 19 and a half minutes to say this. Wait till she gets going on the advantages of replacing copiers and faxers with combination copier-faxers! And in case you were waiting for it, the TSA won't be getting a new logo this year in order to save money.

Napolitano opened the conference by mentioning the floods in Fargo and what was happening on the ground, quipping inappropriately, "We don't control how rivers rise... We don't control volcanoes either...but you know what? We do control how we operate." This may have been a subtle jab at Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal's comment last month that volcano monitoring was wasteful, right before Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted. It's all fun and games until Alaska Airlines has to cancel all its flights, right?

Related Stories:
· Secretary Napolitano Rolls Out Efficiency Review at TSA Facility [TSA.gov]
· Volcanoes and travel: Mount Redoubt Erupts [PeterGreenberg.com]
· Can I Take Photos at the Checkpoint and Airport [Evolution of Security blog]
· TSA coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo of security at Denver International Airport: OndraSoukup]