Can things get any worse for the TSA?
To say the TSA just had a bad week would be a lot like saying Muammar Gaddafi is dealing with a little opposition in Libya.
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Business bans TSA agents – will more follow?
KC McLawson works for a cafe near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and since the body-scan and patdown controversy last November, she says her boss has taken extraordinary measures to ensure the TSA knows of his displeasure.
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?
Do the TSA’s new body scanners solve our screening problems?
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.
TSA backtracks on private screeners amid lawsuits
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.
Did TSA turn off its scanners again to keep things moving during the holidays?
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.
Pilot who posted security flaw video online is punished by the TSA
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.
Troubled TSA heads into holidays with egg on its face
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any worse for the beleaguered Transportation Security Administration, they have.
Uh-oh! Air travel just got a lot more dangerous
It pains me to write this, but when it comes to air travel, I think the terrorists may have won.
TSA denies it turned off body-scanners on “Opt-Out” Day — but where’s the proof?
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.