Security analyst Bruce Schneider, a fierce critic of the TSA, brings us another example of the agency's (in)competence:
TSA screener finds two pipes in passenger's bags.Screener determines that they're not a threat.Screener confiscates them anyway, because of their "material and appearance."Because they're not actually a threat, screener leaves them at the checkpoint.Everyone forgets about them.Six hours later, the next shift of TSA screeners notices the pipes and -- not ...
I'm on my way back to Kansas City after spending the past four days on the oneworld MegaDO. Sponsored by American Airlines, Hyatt Hotels, MilePoint, and oneworld, we participated in everything from evacuation drills and flight training at AA's training facility in Dallas, to a tour of Boeing's 737 manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, as well as an opportunity to tour the Qantas A380 and a brand new Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300. I'll post a detailed report by the end of the ...
I want to be careful not to blow this story out of proportion, but there is a key point we can take away from today's incident at Nashville Airport in which Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was temporarily detained by the TSA for refusing to undergo a patdown after walking through a full body scanner: he got away with it.
If you have no idea what I am talking about, take a look at the video below:
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If the Transportation Security Administration was a Shakespeare play, it would be A Comedy of Errors. In an apparent case of mistaken identity and astounding sloppiness, an x-ray scanner picked up a .38-caliber revolver in a passenger's carry-on baggage at Dallas/Fort-Worth International Airport, but the TSA let the passenger walk away with the gun and even board her AA flight to Houston!
You can read the story here. Here's what happened: the TSO watching the metal detector screen was ...
I am usually very critical of the Transportation Security Administration and will continue to be critical as I observe the out-of-control agency wasting tax dollars. But I am also a fair person, and will give them praise when praise is due. Friday, they earned some praise.
Friday was moving day for my 87-year old uncle. He is relocating from California to South Carolina and needed someone to travel with him. Naturally, I was the candidate even if that meant flying from Philadelphia to ...
After facing a barrage of media criticism for an agent's decision to confiscate a cupcake from a woman's carry-on baggage at New York La Guardia airport on Christmas Eve, the Transportation Security Administration dug in and defended the action. The controversy has not subsided, though, and the TSA's own "Iraqi Information Minister" (good ol' Blogger Bob) addressed the issue in his blog yesterday.
I wanted to make it clear that this wasn’t your everyday, run-of-the-mill ...
