Is the TSA worth saving?
If you’re upset by the TSA’s clumsy efforts to protect us from airborne terrorists — and let’s face it, who isn’t? — then you may have missed the good news last week.
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How much worse can the TSA behave?
When you’re on probation, you steer clear of trouble. You try to to avoid any appearance of impropriety, and you’re on your best behavior.
Is it too easy to lose the TSA’s “trust”?
A new Transportation Security Administration initiative that lets trusted travelers bypass the airport screening line is on the verge of an ambitious expansion. By the end of the year, PreCheck, a government program that offers expedited screening to those who submit to an initial background check, is expected to be available in 35 airports.
Is the TSA coming for your iPad?
It happened again last week: A TSA agent was formally charged with swiping yet another iPad from a passenger.
Where do TSA agents learn their bad manners?
If you’ve ever been browbeaten, barked at or belittled by a TSA agent — and let’s be honest, who among us hasn’t? — then you’ve got a friend in Sen. Harry Reid (D.-Nev.).
TSA body scanners’ apparent flaw raises airport security concerns
One of the Transportation Security Administration’s vaunted 20 layers of security has been looking a little porous lately, and the resulting dust-up is calling into question the effectiveness — and the cost-effectiveness — of post-9/11 airport screening.
Why does everyone hate the TSA?
The story had a familiar ring to it. It involved a group of soldiers returning home from Afghanistan. They were carrying weapons, including rifles, pistols and at least one M-240B machine gun.
Will TSA’s new senior exemption make air travel safer?
Nothing makes you forget bad news faster than a little manufactured good news, a PR secret the TSA seems to have stumbled upon last week.
Secret TSA memo explains differences between medical devices and weapons of mass destruction
Remember when the TSA accidentally published its passenger screening manual online a few years ago? Well, in light of this week’s events, which call into question the agency’s basic operating procedures, I’m not waiting around for it to do that again (although it probably will).
Just who does the TSA think it is?
Hardly a day seems to go by that I don’t get a complaint about the Transportation Security Administration.