Additional levels of security must be built into what has become the nation’s “overly rigid, static and predictable airline passenger system,” a top federal official testified Tuesday at a Senate hearing. “Terrorists can more easily ‘engineer around’ these highly structured defenses,” Kip Hawley, director of the Transportation Security Administration, told the Senate Commerce Committee. “If we follow the same procedures everywhere, every time, we make it easier for terrorists to break the security code,” Hawley said. Full Story