Ms Napolitano said today that major airports were seeing lines
"150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect" as result
of the federal spending cuts that went into force on Friday.
"We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of
entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this
weekend," she told a breakfast event organised by Politico.
When pressed for specifics she cited Chicago 's
O'Hare, Atlanta 's Hartfield-Jackson and Los Angeles International Airport
However, when contacted by The
Daily Telegraph, spokespeople
for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry,
denied that airports had been hit by delays.
"We haven't had any slowdowns at all," said Marshall
Lowe, a spokesman for LAX. Mr Lowe said that he had been on duty over the
weekend and received no reports of unusual security delays.
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