Airport Screening

WATCH: 5 Things The TSA Doesn't Want You To See

Christopher Elliott | Posted 05.29.2012

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The TSA doesn't want us to see its documented arrogance and incompetence, doesn't want us to know that it's an out-of-control government agency.

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WATCH: Who's Responsible For These Bad TSA Agents?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Airport Screening, Congress, Crime, Tsa, Darrell Issa, Airport Security, Bruce Schneier, Jeffrey Piccolella, Tsa Agents, Nicholas Anthony Puccio, Video, Travel News

Like Alan Rickman in "Die Hard" or Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men," the fine men and women of the TSA -- mostly the men, actually -- are really good at being bad.

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New Screening Procedures For Travelers Over 75

AP | By JASON KEYSER | Posted 05.14.2012

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CHICAGO -- Some air travelers over the age of 75 will soon get a break at airport security checkpoints under a test program announced Wednesday that c...

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The Latest Buzzword At The TSA: Inconsistent

Christopher Elliott | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Airport Screening, Airport Security, Airport, Airport Scanners, Airlines, Tsa, Travel News

So let me get this straight: Drugs are OK, but letting a few unchecked bags with nothing dangerous on board -- not OK? C'mon, TSA.

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Airport Security and Non-Self

Jay Michaelson | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Airport Security, Buddhism, X-Rays, Airport Screening, Air Travel, Body Scanning, Tsa, Self-Awareness, Terrorism, Racial Profiling, Privacy, Politics News

I'm not going to pretend that security lines and X-rays are now some sort of spiritual experience for me. They still suck, but I have been able to find some equanimity amid the stressing and the stripping.

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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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A Few Frequent Flyers To Get New Perk Under TSA Expedited Screening Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A few lucky frequent flyers will start whizzing through airport checkpoints next week under a pilot program that federal security offici...

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My Sex Life with the TSA

Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Tsa, TSA Security, Air Travel, Screening, Comedy News

I've been getting a lot of action from the TSA lately. I went through JFK this past week. As usual, I requested not to go through the backscatter machines. And as usual, they tell me that since I mentioned it at all, they have to give me a "pat-down."

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TSA Answers Questions About Enhanced Screening at Airports

Karen Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The initial furor and shock over the enhanced airport screening techniques by the TSA seems to have subsided But with the holiday travel season in force, and continued questions about the security procedures at airports, we posed questions for the TSA.

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Don't Put Down the Airport Pat-Down!

Lennard Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Tsa, Massage, Pat-Downs, Full-Body Scanners, Full Body Scanners, Puritans, Airplanes, Airports, Politics News

I'm puzzled about this fuss surrounding enhanced pat-downs and body-imaging machines. And I'm wondering if the truth is that Americans don't like them because of our puritan heritage.

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Somewhere, Osama Bin Laden Is Laughing...

Tom Shachtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Unemployment, Economy, Osama Bin Laden, Groping, Iraq, Afghanistan, Laughter, Thanksgiving 2010, Tsa, Anti-Muslim Sentiment, Grope-Gate, Politics News

At very low cost to him, Bin Laden has pushed the U.S. to eviscerate its civil liberties -- the rights to free speech, a speedy trial and to be secure in one's home -- formerly the envy of freedom-loving people everywhere.

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TSA At The 'Tipping Point': Passenger Anger At Airport Pat-Downs Threatens To Boil Over

AP | ADAM GELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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How did an agency created to protect the public become the target of so much public scorn? After nine years of funneling travelers into ever longer l...

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TSA Partners With Match.com

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Funny, Airport Screening, Humor, Terrorism, match.com, Profiling, Singles, Tsa, Privacy, Airport, Pat Down, Airport Scanners, Satire, Don't Touch My Junk, Security, Transportation Security Administration, Comedy News

WASHINGTON, DC (Movement Vision Lab) --- Ending days of suspense about the utility of Transportation Security Administration officials copping feels ...

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Government Officials Defend New, More Intimate, Airport Security Measures

AP | JOAN LOWY and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Airport Security, Full-Body Scanners, Full-Body-Scanners-Airports, Airport Security Measures, Airlines, Janet Napolitano, Travel News

WASHINGTON — Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving travel crush, federal air security officials were struggling to reassure rising numbers of fl...

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Airport Security Checks Revamped For Travel To U.S.

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Security, Air Travel, Tsa, Travel, Airport Screening, No Fly List, Watch List, Terrorism, Aviation Security, World News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is refining its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travelers' nationalities. T...

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Robert Harding, Obama's Second TSA Nominee, Withdraws From Consideration

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is back to square one – again – in finding a transportation security chief to shore up the natio...

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Full Body Scans Are a Feminist Issue

Kelly Kleiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Women, Rape, Terrorism, Full Body Scanners, Full-Body Scanners, TSA Security, Feminism, Privacy, Airport Security, Politics News

Most women know intuitively that full-body scans are a privacy violation that simply can't be tolerated.

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Jews, Muslims Worry Body Scanners Violate Religious Laws

pewforum.org | Omar Sacirbey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Full-body scanners are the latest clash between religious sensitivity and national security. Some religious groups say the scanners are forcing an unc...

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European Airports Don't Appear To Be Following US Demand For Increased Security Measures

AP | ERIN McCLAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the first day of what was supposed to be tighter screening ordered by the U.S. for airline passengers from certain countries, some airports around ...

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Mikey Hicks: 8-Year-Old Cub Scout Apparently On Terrorist Watch List

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Meet Mikey Hicks," said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a pl...

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