Changes are coming to U.S airport security checkpoints:
The Transportation Security Administration recently announced plans to begin testing an identity verification program to let airline crews bypass the controversial full-body scanners and extra-thorough pat-down searches at airports.
The proposed program, TSA officials say, should — to a degree — speed up airport security lines for regular passengers by diverting the nation's more than 100,000 pilots and ...
Lucky says "there's just something wrong" about the video below. I will go a step further: the video below demonstrates the harrowing yet comical state airport security has descended into in the United States of America.
One event that really turned me against the TSA was when I was re-clearing airport security in Denver after a flight from Frankfurt with my uncle in 2009. My uncle, recovering from recent hip surgery, now had a metal screw in him and of course, set off the ...
I have flown through Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington Dulles, and San Francisco the last couple days and been (pleasantly) surprised that each time I have come across a full body scanner, it has not been in operation.
In Chicago Friday afternoon they were roped off. Friday night in Boston they were not in use. Yesterday in Los Angeles (where I just happened to go through security with Robert Redford) they were also turned off. Even if San Francisco, where ...
There are many of us that have issues with the current security theatre surrounding the TSA and its search procedures. However this week was the source of one of the most outrageous statements about the power of the TSA and its ability to search any and all passengers. In court the lawyer for the TSA declared that they have the power to strip search all airline passengers without comment or hearings beforehand.
It is this arrogance that causes people to ...
Watch and weep:
Yes, that's the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) performing security checks at the Amtrak station in Savannah, Georgia. Never mind the fact that they were screening passengers as they got off a train. Never mind the fact that they showed up uninvited and violated Amtrak's security policy. Never mind the fact that Savannah, like almost every other Amtrak station, does not require you to go inside the ...
A posse of Lone State lawmakers has a message for the TSA: Don't mess with Texas.
Republican State Representative David Simpson has introduced two bills targetting the TSA. Here are the highlights:
HB 1938
...(b) An airport operator may not allow body imaging scanning equipment to be installed or operated in any airport in this state.
(c) An airport operator commits an offense if the operator fails to comply with Subsection (b).
(d) An airport operator ...
