Congress: TB patient incident shows homeland protection flaws

U.S. Homeland Security Department officials say they lost track of an Atlanta, Ga., man infected with a deadly form of tuberculosis when he changed his return flight plans from Europe and took a foreign carrier to Canada. "We're blind to that," Jayson Ahern, the new assistant Commissioner of Customs...

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