On the same July day that Donald Rumsfeld was patted down by airport security at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, I underwent an upper-body pat-down at Reagan National ( Read more... )

SourceThey’ve been accused of rampant thievery, spending billions of dollars like drunken sailors, groping children and little old ladies, and making everyone take off their shoes ( Read more... )

TSA's 'trusted traveler' program may mean fewer headaches for some airline passengers
Source - NY Daily News
BY DANIEL PRENDERGAST AND JOSEPH STRAW
Sunday, August 14th 2011, 4:00 AMIf you've had it with interminable airport checkpoint lines, kicking off your shoes and taking out your laptop, the government has a proposition ( Read more... )

Andrew Timko doesn't have anything to hide.

But the 29-year-old Northwestern University graduate student isn’t thrilled about the enhanced-behavior detection trial program that began yesterday at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

In an effort to identify potential terrorists, Transportation Security Administration officers being trained in ( Read more... )

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TSA to woman: 'We're going to have to examine your hair.'

Laura Adiele wasn't expecting any trouble when she put her hair up, packed her bags, and headed for SeaTac to catch a flight to Texas. So, she was quite surprised when she was pulled out of the security line after having gone through the Advance Imaging system (that see-through technology ( Read more... )

TSA warns of possible airline threat involving implanted bombs

By Christi Parsons
July 6, 2011, 7:48 a.m.

The government has warned airlines that terrorists are considering surgically implanting explosives into people in an attempt to circumvent screening procedures, according to U.S. officials.

There is no indication of an immediate plot, but ( Read more... )

A few days ago, as you may have heard, a college football player was arrested at San Francisco International Airport for wearing sagging pants. This was already well within my zone of interest because it involves (1) the continuing and stupid controversy over sagging pants and (2) the continuing stupidity and national disgrace that is our air- ( Read more... )

America's Outrage Over TSA Naked Body Scanners Was Right-Wing PR to Prevent Workers from Unionizing

The right fears nothing more than unionized workers, and found a cunning way to scapegoat workers to derail a campaign to organize the TSA. This is the year that the Republican right-wing, backed by corporate sponsors like the billionaire Koch ( Read more... )