When the agency charged with protecting America's transportation systems unplugs the last scanner and wheels it out of the airport terminal, TSA will have to answer to the American taxpayers about its latest failure.
Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.28.2012
Where would we be without the TSA?
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.01.2012
WASHINGTON -- The good news first. Government homeland security agencies are moving toward a more rational, risk-based system of protection. Now th...
James Peron | Posted 03.31.2012
TSA wants their theatrics to send the message they are making people safer. But are they? They spend less time with real investigations, while inconveniencing millions and humiliating people.
Lyle Denniston | Posted 09.27.2011
From the time the government began using full-body imaging four years ago, there have been strong protests that the technology invades personal privacy and is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.
AP | By EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.12.2011
WASHINGTON -- U.S. airports are still vulnerable to terror attacks, despite billions of dollars invested in security enhancements since 9/11, a Republ...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- A privacy rights advocacy group is telling appellate judges that the use of full-body scanners as a first line of defense at airports vi...
Sen. Tom Udall | Posted 05.25.2011
The body images produced at airport checkpoints are highly revealing and many passengers are justifiably uncomfortable being screened by the technology.
Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
"Mr. President, it's time to leave for the airport." "Never happen. Not going to let him take a picture of my junk. As it is, that's all they're letting me take with me."
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently announced her opposition to the federal Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanners due to wo...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — The big Opt-Out looked like a big bust Wednesday as most of the Thanksgiving travelers selected for full-body scans and pat-down searc...
Christopher Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011
To kickoff the New Year, the Future of Privacy Forum has released their first annual list of privacy ins and outs for 2011.
Dr. Joseph Mercola | Posted 05.25.2011
Because the radiation beam from the scanners concentrates on your skin, researchers believe the dose may be up to 20 times higher than is being estimated.
Leigh Vinocur, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
As we enter the busy holiday travel season it appears that deep vein thrombosis or blood clots are not the only worry on air travelers minds. The new concern is exposure to radiation from the new airport scanners.
Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011
In the shadow elite age, when power brokers can have a dozen roles of influence, criss-crossing and sometimes overlapping, sorting through them to pick the most telling ones is both more difficult -- and more imperative -- than ever before.
Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011
The tax code was created to help the rich become richer and should be junked. If the public really knew how they are being abused, we might see a call for the guillotine.
Anthony Amore | Posted 05.25.2011
Two Harvard Law School students have filed a law suit in federal court complaining that the use of full-body imaging scanners and enhanced pat-down procedures is a violation of their Constitutional rights.
Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
The implied constitutional right to privacy in relation to body scans has not been balanced against another implied right that most Americans also hold dear: the right to feel reasonably safe when boarding an airplane.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011
Billions of dollars in profit now depend on insiders maintaining US society in a state of overhyped alert that demands increasingly costly technology. Maintaining these profits requires a population conditioned by a theater of fear.
Aemilia Scott | Posted 05.25.2011
In the media pile-on over the TSA's new scanning procedures, the loudest voice has been the one crying foul over personal exposure through imaging and...
John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011
It's one thing when leaked documents complicate the execution of war. It's quite another when they complicate the execution of diplomacy.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011
I didn't fly anywhere for Thanksgiving. This was obviously a good thing, as incessant news reports have informed me that TSA agents are groping Americ...
Posted 05.25.2011
People have gone to interesting lengths to avoid pat downs or full body scans at U.S. airports. In Los Angeles, one woman wore a bikini through a secu...
Paul Tullis | Posted 05.25.2011
Airport body scanners cost $734,000 each. TSA has spent $42 billion, according to CBS News, since 9/11. Pat-downs that some travelers find intrusi...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
There have been high-profile acts of civil disobedience in response to the two controversial procedures recently deployed by the TSA for primary scree...
Christopher Elliott | Posted 05.12.2012