Are you traveling more after the TSA’s unpopular scandowns?
Compelling journalism connects dots, telling a story by revealing a bigger picture. But what happens when you connect the wrong dots?
Compelling journalism connects dots, telling a story by revealing a bigger picture. But what happens when you connect the wrong dots?
The TSA is at it again. Earlier this week, it announced that in an effort to “enhance security while strengthening privacy protection” it had begun testing new scanning technology that doesn’t show screeners naked images of passengers.
It’s not hard to image how much louder the public outcry would have been during the pat-down controversy last year if the Transportation Security Administration had also shut down it Screening Partnership Program, which allowed airports to privatize their security.
That’s the question asked by Tom Westerman, who flew from JFK to Atlanta on Dec. 23 and returned the 30th. Both were among the busiest travel days of the year.
An airline pilot who posted a series of videos online that exposed shortcomings in airport security has been punished by the Transportation Security Administration, which included a visit to his home by federal agents and sheriff’s deputies.
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any worse for the beleaguered Transportation Security Administration, they have.
It pains me to write this, but when it comes to air travel, I think the terrorists may have won.
Two weeks after declaring National Opt-Out Day a failure and renaming it TSA Appreciation Day, the agency charged with protecting our transportation systems has formally denied it turned off its full-body scanners in order to squelch the pre-Thanksgiving protests.
Well, it’s about time.
The Transportation Security Administration’s little body-scanning/pat-down problem isn’t just keeping us media types busy. Lawyers are having a field day with it, too.