For years I have been preaching about the lack of critical thinking and common sense that characterized the Transportation Security Administration's choice to roll out full-body scanners at airports nationwide. I have pointed out that the machines were never tested prior to their acquisition and that a women smuggled a gun in her bra through a full body scanner not once, but five times and the TSA never so much as acknowledged it. But maybe that was not enough to ...

There have been some recent news reports discussing TSA forcing women through body scanners (nude-o-scopes) due to their looks.  One woman claimed she was asked to submit to scanning 3 times before the TSA agent let her go.  

According to CBS 11 in Dallas: 

The female agent asked her to enter the machine three times in the incident several months ago. But the agent eventually lost patience with the requests coming from the other room, she told CBS ...

Note the question mark--when I first head about the story, I rolled my eyes and commented, "The TSA did it again," but there is a question as to who was at fault.

A Littleton woman said she missed her flight because the Transportation Security Administration didn’t have any female screeners at the airport.

At the tiny Rock Springs, Wyo. Airport, the motto is "It’s easy to fly," which is why Jennifer Winning is a regular."In the last five months, I've flown out of ...

Just over a week ago, I wrote of my first experience using TSA's Trusted Travel program, Pre✓, at LAX. I was pleased with the fact that I could keep my shoes and coat on, although I was disappointed by the fact that so few airports & airlines had adopted the program. United was scheduled to add Pre✓ to some of their airports throughout 2012, but many details unknown, until today, when TSA announced plans to expand Pre Check to twenty-eight airports, and three more airlines.

With ...

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 ...