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‘Homeland’ security coming to hotels, malls

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A year after a foiled plot to bomb a US-bound passenger plane, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN's "State of the Union" program that other places and modes of transportation must now be scrutinized.

"We look at so-called soft targets -- the hotels, shopping malls, for example -- all of which we have reached out to in the past year and have done a fair amount of training for their own employees," Napolitano said.

Since an attempted bombing on a packed Saturday night in Times Square in May, New York, for example, has installed hundreds of security cameras as part of a plan to triple the number of cameras to 3,000.
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What gives them the right to do this again? Last time I checked 98% of hotels and malls are privately owned. The government has no legal right to station it thugs in these places. Security is supposed to be an issue the management addresses

‘Homeland’ security coming to hotels, malls | Raw Story
 
Nowhere in that article did it say they were stationing anyone anywhere.
 
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