Want to get through the TSA screening process as quickly and painlessly as possible? Sure you do.
PAT-DOWN
Hardly a day seems to go by that I don’t get a complaint about the Transportation Security Administration.
Full-body scan or pat-down?
It’s been a week of run-ins between the TSA and its critics. Maybe the most interesting one was Sen. Rand Paul’s confrontation with Transportation Security Administration Chief John Pistole during a Congressional hearing. “You’ve gone overboard and you’re missing the boat on terrorism because you’re doing these invasive searches on six-year-old girls,” Paul said of [...]
“Accountability.” That was the dramatic headline on TSA’s blog yesterday announcing the firing of at least 30 employees, including two senior managers, at Honolulu International Airport, for “improperly” screening baggage. Actually, they weren’t screened at all.
If the TSA wasn’t violating our civil rights with its intrusive screening procedures, as so many passengers claim, and as Texas Rep. David Simpson explains in his thoughtful commentary, then all of this might be kind of funny.
It’s been another interesting week for the TSA.
It happened to me yesterday. I got my first “enhanced” pat-down.
Compelling journalism connects dots, telling a story by revealing a bigger picture. But what happens when you connect the wrong dots?
And we thought things couldn’t get any stranger.
The transcript from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” isn’t available yet, but here’s what we know: There was a lot of hemming and hawing — here’s a sample — and one keeper quote that could define her tenure.
No, you’re stuck at the airport or in a motel, waiting for the winter storm to pass.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone who supports the Transportation Security Administration’s controversial body scan and pat-down procedures. But this morning, it seemed as if I had: corporate travel managers.
To call someone to a Nazi is the ultimate insult. So when commenters began comparing the Transportation Security Administration to their Third Reich counterparts on this site and elsewhere, I wondered: Do they have a point
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