Airports need to step up screening of workers: report

Washington

A CONGRESSIONAL report on terrorist threat posed by airport "insiders" says the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), airport operators and airlines must do a better job of screening workers such as baggage handlers and cleaners for possible security threats.

It's also treading depressingly familiar ground.

The report, released this week by the House Homeland Security Committee's majority staff, cites several cases going back as far as 2008 in which aviation work…