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Rand Paul: Stop 'Groping Toddlers And Grandmothers'

Posted 05.02.2012

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) continued to rage against the Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday, encouraging supporters to join a campaign to g...

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WATCH: TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old In Leg Cast

Posted 03.19.2012

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A three-year-old boy in a cast and wheelchair on his way to a Disney vacation with his family was stopped by TSA agents at Chicago's O'Hare airport. H...

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TSA Agents Do The Strangest Things!

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.07.2012

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I'm not saying the TSA is staffed by a bunch of perverted, incompetent, lewd, pot-heads. But incidents like these make you wonder when the a TSA urges us not to judge the agency by the actions of a few, as it did last week.

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Satirical TSA 'Memo' Skewers The Bumbling Agency

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.01.2012

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TSA policy on cupcakes and other baked goods is clear: These items may be confiscated at any time, for any reason, as long as you share them with your colleagues in the break room.

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Security Theatrics: The Senator and the TSA

James Peron | Posted 03.31.2012

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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.

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Rand Paul Detained By TSA Agents In Nashville

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) staff said Monday morning that the senator was being detained by federal Transportation Security Administration...

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Union Blasts TSA Officials As 'Arrogant,' 'Autocratic'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The labor union representing workers for the Transportation Security Administration blasted the agency's top leaders Tuesday, describing...

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Who Is 'Bullying' America's TSA Agents?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 02.11.2012

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The TSA's employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), is accusing Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R.-Tenn.) of "bullying the TSA workforce" after she introduced a bill last week that would require its agents stop dressing like law enforcement officers.

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TSA Strip Searches Another Elderly Woman?

Posted 12.05.2011

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Two days after 85-year-old Lenore Zimmerman came forward accusing the TSA of "strip-searching" her, another elderly woman has come forward with the sa...

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85-Year-Old Woman: TSA 'Strip-Searched' Me

Posted 12.05.2011

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UPDATE 12/5: The TSA issued a statement to The Daily News on Sunday apologizing to Zimmerman, saying: “TSA contacted the passenger to apologize t...

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Happy B'day TSA! Their WORST Blunders Of All TIme

Posted 11.18.2011

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In the 10 years that the TSA has existed, there have been countless public blunders by the agency that just can't seem to get it right. From John ...

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TSA Policy Changes For The Better, Slowly

Kate Hanni | Posted 11.25.2011

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Children under 13 will not be routinely required to remove their shoes and will not be subjected to intrusive pat downs that touch private areas of their bodies.

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Dallas Woman Mad At TSA For Checking Her Fro For Bombs

Posted 11.21.2011

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A Dallas-bound woman is angry at the TSA after agents stopped and searched her afro while she went through security at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson ai...

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TSA: Security or Security Theater?

Kate Hanni | Posted 09.17.2011

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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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Woman Gropes Phoenix TSA Agent

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.15.2011

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Well, this is interesting. Yukari Mihamae, a 61-year-old Colorado woman, faces felony charges for groping a TSA agent. Miyamae was en route through...

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94-Year-Old On Patdown: 'I Couldn't Take It Any Longer'

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.14.2011

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Marian Paterson, a 94-year-old woman randomly screened by TSA agents at Raleigh-Durham International, took to the airwaves to complain about her treat...

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TSA Working To 'Strengthen & Improve' Pre-Flight Screening Practices

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.13.2011

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The Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday a pilot program to enhance the agency's pre-flight screening capabilities and expedite s...

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

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.12.2011

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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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Texas Anti-Groping Legislation Fails

AOL Travel News | Posted 08.30.2011

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The Texas legislature failed Wednesday to pass a bill that would ban invasive pat downs by airport security. The measure, which would have criminal...

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Airport Security: For What It's Worth

Locke Bowman | Posted 08.27.2011

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There is no joking at the security check point. ("Sir, you'll have to drink that up before you go further." "I'd prefer not to. This latte is actually a liquid explosive. If I drink it too fast, it will give me indigestion.")

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TSA Officers Force Elderly Woman To Remove Her Adult Diaper

AOL Travel News | Posted 08.26.2011

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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: Woman Screams That TSA Agent 'Molested' Her

AOL Travel News | Posted 08.02.2011

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Here's a video that's hard to watch. A shaky hand-held camera records a shrieking woman who has just gone through security and yells that a TSA office...

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Redskins Stand With TSA Agents in Union Bid

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Officers with the Transportation Security Administration know a thing or two about feeling under appreciated and belittled in the workpl...

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Where's the Fun in Flying? Turning Guff Into Guffaws

Christine Negroni | Posted 07.12.2011

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As far as I'm concerned, laughter-as-a-corrective-force has never been more needed than in commercial aviation today, where there's an oversupply of cranky people and an under supply of laughs.

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

AOL Travel News | Posted 07.11.2011

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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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