(POLITICO) The same day bomb blasts in an unsecured part of Brussels’ airport and transit system left dozens dead, the administration was set to miss a deadline mandating that the TSA answer whether U.S. airports are equipped to respond to a similar attack.
Last fall, Congress enacted a law ordering that TSA must ensure that individual airports with a TSA presence have a plan in place to handle security incidents, including active shooters and terrorist attacks. The law was in response to a TSA officer who was gunned down at Los Angeles International Airport in 2013.
A report on those plans was due in lawmakers’ hands Tuesday, the same day as the Brussels horror — a deadline TSA will not make.
