TSA Administrator John Pistole was busy making the rounds during Thanksgiving week, trying to assure holiday air travelers that their screening experience would be better than last year.
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Now that’s what I call a birthday party.
Happy birthday, TSA.
No one was surprised by this week’s report that the Transportation Security Administration glossed over the health risks of its airport X-ray scanners.
Hardly a day seems to go by that I don’t get a complaint about the Transportation Security Administration.
Almost everyone who heard about the “get your freak on” incident had a good laugh about it.
Whenever I hear from someone like Angela Wright, I can almost predict the TSA’s knee-jerk response to her complaint.
“As a proud American, I served my country with loyalty and dedication in the aftermath of 9/11 by joining the TSA and the fight on terror,” the letter begins.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
The latest TSA horror story comes by way of Lori Dorn, a human resources consultant in New York.
You probably already suspected that the idea of a Department of Homeland Security in general, and the Transportation Security Administration, specifically, was a little crazy.
Anyone who hoped to spend the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in quiet reflection will probably be disappointed. During the last few days, the prevailing sentiment in America has been fear, if not paranoia.
A few minutes after Vance Gilbert’s recent flight from Boston to Washington pulled away from the gate, the aircraft made a U-turn and returned to the terminal. Authorities had a few questions for him before they could clear his flight for takeoff. What kind of book was he reading? And why hadn’t he stowed his fanny pack in the overhead bin, as a flight attendant had suggested?
Here we go again.
Stung by the traveling public’s disapproval of its one-size-fits-all approach to passenger screening, the Transportation Security Administration last month announced that it would begin testing a new trusted-traveler program. But if you think that the next time you fly, you’ll speed through the security line like it’s 1999, you’re probably in for a letdown.
Elliott is consumer advocate 
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