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Searching Breast Milk, Turbans, Genitals: Mobile App Is 'TSA's Watchdog'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Sikh Turbans, Tsa, Video, Airport Racial Profiling, Tsa Pat Downs, Airport Security, TSA Security, Civil Rights, Racial Profiling, Mobile Apps, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A new mobile app that enables travelers to file reports of alleged racial profiling by the Transportation Security Administration from t...

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The Incredible Shrinking Woman in Post-9/11 Hell

Ann Jones | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Terrorist Watch List, Bank Holds, Airport Security, Fulbright, Terrorists, War on Terror, William Fulbright, Politics News

I don't know how it happened. Or even, really, what happened. Or what it means. Someone in the U.S. government who specializes in finding terrorists seems to have found me and laid a heavy hand on my bank account.

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The Art of the Shakedown, From the Nile to the Potomac

Lawrence Weschler | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Iphone, Tsa Pat Downs, Corruption, Campaign Finance Reform, Uganda, National Security, Terrorism, World News

In Uganda, corruption often arises out of desperation. In America, more typically, its wellsprings are greed, pure and simple. And it's hard to decide which is the more dismaying, the more disfiguring, the more disgusting.

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John Mica Attacks TSA 'Chat-Downs' As 'Idiotic'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Video, Israel Security, Aviation Safety, Tsa, Boston Logan, Tsa Pat Downs, John Mica, Ben Gurion Airport, Aviation, TSA Security, Transportation Security Administration, Gao, Transportation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House committee that oversees the Transportation Security Administration blasted the agency's recent test of "chat-d...

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Labor Day 2011: The Travel News That Shaped The Summer

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Tsa Blunders, Missing Woman in Aruba, Virginia Earthquake, Tsa, 10 Million Mile Man, East Coast Earthquake, Labor Day, Tsa Patdown, Tsa Pat Downs, Global Pulse, Hurricane Irene, Grandmother Pat Down, Old Lady Pat Down, Full Body Scan, Labor Day 2011, FAA Shutdown, Irene Damage, Travel News

With Labor Day upon us, and the kiddies heading back to school, the end of summer is sadly in sight. To bring the season to a close, we have rounded u...

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What Are Your Best Travel Secrets?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Best Travel Tips, Travel Secrets, Tsa Body Scanners, Packing Tips, Travel Tips, Airline Tricks, Airline Upgrades, Business Travel, HuffPost Small Business Board of Directors, Tsa Pat-Downs, Holiday Travel, Small Business News

Full-body scanners, invasive pat-downs, endless delays, cramped seats, screaming babies -- ah, the joys of travel. Why do we subject ourselves to this...

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Phil Town: Confessions Of A Road Warrior

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Best Travel Tips, Travel Secrets, Tsa, Travel Tips, Thanksgiving Travel, Business Travel, Phil Town Board of Directors, Travel, HuffPost Small Business Board of Directors, Thanksgiving Travel Tips, Tsa Pat-Downs, Holiday Travel, Small Business News

When we reached out to our Board of Directors recently and asked them for their best travel secrets, we received no shortage of advice. As busy entrep...

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TSA Critics, Here's Hope

Kip Hawley | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Tsa Screenings, John Pistole, Tsa, Politics News

Anybody can bludgeon the many shortcomings and foibles at TSA, and there will be plenty more opportunities in the future. But now is the time to give some positive reinforcement to a sensible attempt at innovation.

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TSA: Security or Security Theater?

Kate Hanni | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Airline Passenger Rights, TSA Security, Constitutional Rights, Air Travel, TSA Screening, Tsa Machine, Tsa Pat Downs, Tsa Patdowns, TSA Pat Down, Politics News

After an extended period of inappropriate, knee-jerk response, dealing with real security threats by providing security theater, the TSA is slowly responding to public outcry.

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Fear of Flying: Crazy Right Can't Get It Right

Dan Collins | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Airport Security, Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 95-Year-Old Grandmother Pat Down, Airline Security, Tsa Airport Security, New York News

I can't help noticing that a lot of the furor over airport pat-down policies has come from the crazy right. The same people will be the first to loudly denounce the Obama administration for any breach in airport security.

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Mom Didn't Want Daughter's "Crouch Grabbed" By TSA, Gets Arrested

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Tsa Pat Down Girl, Andrea Fornella Abbott, Tsa, Airport Security, Tsa Patdowns, Andrea Fornella Abbott Tsa, Awkward Tsa Pat Down Moments, Travel News

A distraught mother, en route to Baltimore, caused quite a ruckus at the Nashville airport on Saturday as she tried to protect her daughter from the T...

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TSA Officers Force Elderly Woman To Remove Her Adult Diaper

AOL Travel News | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Tsa Depends, Tsa Pats Down Elderly Woman, Tsa, Airport Security, Tsa Patdowns, Tsa Removes Elderly Womans Diaper, Travel News

The TSA has another PR nightmare on its hands: Security officers at Florida's Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport patted down a cancer-stricken, 95-year ...

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WATCH: 8-Month Old Receives Pat Down At Kansas City Airport

AOL Travel News | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Tsa, Airport Security, Tsa Patdowns, Baby Gets Pat Down, Travel News

An 8-month old receiving a pat down at the Kansas City airport has sparked outrage on Twitter after a fellow traveler posted a photo of the interactio...

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Oh, the Horror of Being an Aviation Writer

Christine Negroni | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Southwest Airlines, Tsa, Air Traffic Controllers, Aviation, Fear or Flying, Air France, Travel News

To be an aviation writer these days means being barraged by disparate facts, eyewitness tweets, and partial impressions that can create a Frankenstein-like picture of aviation.

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If TSA Security Measures Were Even More Invasive (PICTURES)

cracked.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat-Down Jokes, Cracked, Tsa Jokes, Tsa Security Jokes, Tsa Pat-Downs, Comedy News

What kind of invasive anti-terrorism security can we expect to see in public places if the TSA's "naked" body scanners and genital searches become the...

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Flying In Europe? Don't Fear, They Don't Touch Your 'Junk'

Global Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Airport Security, Europe, European Security, Tsa Pat Downs, Airport Security, Air Travel Europe, Don't Touch My Junk, TSA Security, Tsa Patdowns, Air Travel Security, Air Travel, Tsa, World News

Belgium -- "Don't touch my junk" probably wouldn't translate well into all 23 official languages of the European Union. But Europeans don't need a ...

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TSA and Instant Replay

Kathy Kemper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Instant Replay, Santonio Holmes, National Football League, Football, Tsa Pat Downs, Scanners, Steelers, Tsa, Super Bowl, Sports News

Discomfort to passengers is worth the improved security, just like stopping a game to look at an instant replay is worth getting the call right.

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WATCH: Passenger In Wheelchair Strips To Lingerie For Patdown

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Wheelchair Tsa, Tammy Banovac, Tsa Pat Downs, Airlines, TSA Pat Down, Tammy Banovac Tsa, Tsa Patdowns, Tammy Banovac Tsa Patdown, Travel News

Tammy Banovac, a 52-year old, wheelchair-user from Oklahoma, stripped down to her skivvies (in this case, black lingerie) to get through security at W...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Full-Body Scan.

Aemilia Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air Travel, Tsa, Backscatter, Body Image, Tsa Pat Downs, Travel, Nudity, Full-Body Scanners, Comedy, Millimeter-Wave, Travel News

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...

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Are Airport Scanners Dangerous to Your Health?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The scary thing to me is not what happens in normal operations, but what happens if the machine fails. Mechanical things break down, frequently."

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The TSA Protests: Hypocrisy in Action?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, Latino, Tsa, Civil Disobedience, Hispanic, Airport Security, Arizona, Hispanics, TSA Security, Civil Rights Protest, Libertarian, Civil Rights, Al Qaeda, Polling, The Economist, Airport Scanners, Hypocrisy, Tsa Pat Downs, CBS News, New York Times, Tsa Protest, Photo-Bomb, Bikinis, Full-Body Scanners, Tsa Patdowns, Sb 1070, Arizona Immigration Law, Politics News

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...

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'Junk-Touching' In Perspective

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsa, Tsa Pat Downs, Maher Arar, Eat the Press, War on Terror, Media News

What an extraordinary thing it would be if every segment on the news that focused on someone having their wangs touched by the TSA was matched by an interview with Maher Arar.

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Jeffrey Rosen: TSA Pat-Downs And Body Scans Are Unconstitutional

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsa, Constitutional Law, Airport Scanners, Tsa Lawsuits, Tsa Pat Downs, Airport Security, Tsa Patdowns, Full-Body Scanners, Transportation Security Administration, Travel News

There have been high-profile acts of civil disobedience in response to the two controversial procedures recently deployed by the TSA for primary scree...

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Is Whole-Body Airport Screening Harmful To Travelers With Illness And Disabilities?

Dr. Elaine Schattner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Tsa, Tsa Patdowns, Tsa Body Scans, T.S.A., Home News

Most TSA screeners aren't accustomed, as are doctors and nurses, to seeing people's medical baggage -- colostomies, stumps and other disfigurements that are usually concealed under a person's clothing.

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WATCH: Traveler Wears Bikini Through LAX Security

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Bikini Airport, Tsa, Airport Security, Woman Wears Bikini to Airport, Full-Body Scanners, Airport Bikini, Airport Security Scanners, Video, Los Angeles News

Unwilling to submit to the TSA's controversial full-body scan, one enterprising traveler at LAX hoped to bypass the dreaded pat-down by wearing only a...

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