March 9, 2010

ATLANTA (AP) -- You'll still have to take off your shoes when you go through airport security for the foreseeable future.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that technology currently available doesn't allow screeners to adequately examine what is in someone's shoes while the person is wearing them.

While that could change one day, for now the Transportation Security Administration doesn't have plans to stow away the shoe-removal requirement, which was implemented after Richard Reid tried but failed to ignite a shoe bomb on a U.S.-bound trans-Atlantic jetliner in 2001.

Napolitano spoke in a live online video chat with travelers about the Obama administration's aviation security efforts.

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