Al Drago/Getty Images Kristi Noem has apparently sided with shoes over safety. The Department of Homeland Security secretary reportedly spent months ignoring findings that her move to allow flight passengers to keep their shoes on while passing through airport screening checkpoints created “significant” security risks, according to a letter from the inspector general obtained by the Wall Street Journal. The agency’s watchdog found that most of the TSA full-body scanners can’t scan shoes, creating a grave gap in security screenings, sources told the Journal. But in response, Noem’s office merely assigned a higher classification level to the findings to prevent them from becoming public, sources told the Journal. Read more at The Daily Beast.