Query: What, nowadays, is *not* a "threat to homeland security?" 1. Airport drug bust heightens debate over non-federal forces By Chris Strohm A recent drug bust at Kennedy International Airport shows that the use of workers from private companies in sensitive security jobs poses a substantial risk, federal airport screeners argued Monday. Government agents arrested 20 baggage and cargo handlers at Kennedy last Tuesday and charged them with slipping tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine and marijuana past security checkpoints during the last decade. Authorities said the workers were employed by American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and five smaller companies: Globe Ground North American, Evergreen Eagle, Hudson General, Swissport USA and Flying Foods. The operation represented "a potential threat to homeland security," said Michael Garcia, acting head of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Full story: < http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1203/120103c1.htm > http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1203/120103c1.htm