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Exclusive: TSA Seizes Computer from Travel Blogger

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 12.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Time, Steven Frischling, No Fly Lists, Life, New York Times, Tsa, Newsweek, Klm, Politics News

Two black sedans with TSA special agents came to the Connecticut home of blogger Steven Frischling and walked out with his laptop computer, looking for the anonymous source who leaked a directive.

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Privacy Isn't the Price for Security

Mike German | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Northwest Airlines, Body-Scanners, Security, Airlines, Tsa, Delta Airlines, Privacy, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Profiling and electronically strip searching the innocent doesn't help find terrorists, it only wastes security resources.

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Obama: Flight 253 Plot Is Result Of 'Systemic Failure'

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT and LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 12.30.2009 | World

Read More: Systemic Failure, Tsa, Amsterdam, Yemen, White House, Flight 253, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Detroit, Nigeria, Travel, Obama, Northwest Airlines, Abdulmutallab, World News

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the intelligence community had bits of information that should have been pieced together tha...

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Reid Will Force Confirmation Of TSA Administrator Errol Southers Back Into Motion

Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chad Mcgowan, Jim Demint Tsa, Harry Reid, Harry Reid Tsa, Tsa, Tsa Confirmation, Tsa Administrator, Jim Demint, Tsa Nomination, Politics News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will force the confirmation of a Transportation Security Administration chief back into motion as soon as the Senate...

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DeMinted Politics

Bob Franken | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obstructionism, 2012 Presidential Campaign, Jim Demint, Tsa, Terrorism, Senate, Politics News

Almost no Republican is backing health care reform. So DeMint realizes he must always come up with other ways to stand out by standing in the way. And he has found quite few.

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TSA, Customs Agencies Still Lack Permanent Leaders Appointed By Obama

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unionize, White House, Tsa, Congress, Customs, Jim Demint, Travel, Obama, House, Department of Homeland Security, Senate, Erroll Southers, Janet Napolitano, Customs and Border Protection, Allen Bersin, Labor Union, Abdulmutallab, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Two federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top lea...

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Security Delays: Major 9/11 Commission Recommendations Still Not In Place

New York Times | Posted 12.29.2009 | Home

Read More: 9/11 Comission, Tsa, Airport Security, Home News

A review of government audits and interviews with experts inside and outside the government also shows that the system has been slow to make even bigg...

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You Have the Right To Be an Airline Prisoner

Cliff Schecter | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Trapped on Tarmac, Passenger Bill of Rights, Flyers Rights, Terrorism, Tsa, Politics News

Because this guy chose the last hour to make his attempt at mass murder, now we all have be locked in our seats like we're in A Clockwork Orange (all that is missing are the eyelid pins) for the last hour of a flight?

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TSA Figures If Passengers Are Confused, So Are Terrorists

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 12.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Tsa, Confusion, Airport, Lines, Passanger, Home News

CHICAGO — You are now free to move about the cabin. Or not. After a two-day security clampdown prompted by a thwarted attempt to bomb a jetliner...

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OHS Adds "Taking Responsibility" To No Fly List

Tom Gregory | Posted 12.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: This Week With George Stephanopoulos, George Stephanopoulos, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Bomb, Northwest Flight 253, Janet Napolitano, Terrorism, Terrorist, Watch List, Tsa, Comedy News

Janet Napolitano, the Rubenesque Secretary of Homeland Security, confirmed that "the truth" and its accomplice, "taking responsibility" have been successfully detained.

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TSA Without Leader Thanks To Jim DeMint

McClatchy Newspapers | Margaret Talev | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tsa Union, Detroit Plane Attack, Tsa, Confirmations, Obama Nominee, Demint, Detroit, Obama Confirmations, Sen. Jim DeMint, Tsa Administrator, Obama Nominees, Tsa Nomination, Jim Demint, Politics News

An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transport...

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Airport Security: Everything but Accountability

Harry Shearer | Posted 12.28.2009 | World

Read More: Detroit Bomber, Janet Napolitano, Tsa, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Northwest Flight 253, World News

If employees at the TSA see that there are no career consequences for catastrophic screwups, they will have learned a regrettable lesson: there is no price to be paid for failure.

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Thanks to Homeland Security and the Media, Terrorists Win Even When They Lose

Brian Ross | Posted 12.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Politics, Do Not Fly List, Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Terrorism, NBC News, ABC News, Fox News, Media News, CBS News, Tsa, Fbi, Media News

Media outlets are really good at turning the screws on other publicity-seekers, but are addicted to promoting the work of terrorists because they all profit from generating the same fear that the terrorists thrive upon.

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New Restrictions Mean Airport Lines

AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 12.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Airport Lines, Airport Line, Travel, Restrictions, Tsa, Airport Security, Home News

DALLAS — In-flight security rules have been eased after a two-day clampdown, airline officials familiar with the matter said Monday. At the cap...

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Will the TSA React Smartly or Foolishly?

Philip G. Baker | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bomber, Nigeria, Faa, Explosives, Security, Tsa, Terrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Politics News

With the recent terror plot foiled on the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, let's see if our government officials react sensibly or foolishly. If their past actions are an example, I'm not hopeful.

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The Unfriendly Skies

Chez Pazienza | Posted 12.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, Tsa, Aviation Safety, Faa, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Homeland Security, Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, Richard Reid, Politics News

The only way to truly keep us truly safe while flying a commercial airliner would be to put us all through body scanners, then have us fly in our underwear.

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The Not-Too-Distant Future of Air Travel: Drop That Sippy Cup!

Bob Geiger | Posted 12.27.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Spongebob, Tsa, Lax, Northwest Flight 253, Comedy News

At Los Angeles International Airport a suspicious toddler was recently subdued by alert Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents while creating a disturbance.

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New Restrictions For Air Travelers After Christmas Day Bombing Attempt

AP | JOSHUA FREED and JOAN LOWY | Posted 12.27.2009 | World

Read More: Tsa, Flight 253, New Travel Rules, Screening, Northwest Flight 253, Detroit, Travel, Airport Travel Rules, Security, Airlines, Tsa Rules, Abdulmutallab, World News

Extra pat-downs before boarding. No getting up for the last hour of the flight. More bomb-sniffing dogs. Airports worldwide tightened security a day a...

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Stewart Airport Workers Charged With Using Fake Immigration Documents

AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Newburgh, New York, Illegal Immigration, Immigrants, Airplanes, Tsa, Stewart Airport, New York News

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Authorities say a dozen workers at a warehouse at an upstate New York airport have been charged with using forged immigration d...

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If I Had Crashed the White House Party, I Would Be in Guantanamo by Now

Sam Sedaei | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tareq and Michaele Salahi, White House, Tsa, Salahis, Barack Obama, President Obama, George Bush, Patriot Act, U.S. Customs, Secret Service, White House Party Crashers, Party Crashers, Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden, Border Security, Racial Profiling, Politics News

Many of us were frustrated by the Patriot Act and the way in which it led to profiling and discrimination against minorities during the Bush administration. President Bush is gone, but his legacy lives on.

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How My Lawsuit Against the TSA Made Airports Safe For the Constitution Again

Steve Bierfeldt | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Airport Security, Tsa, Campaign for Liberty, Constitutional Rights, Ron Paul, Politics News

As a result of my just-dropped case against the TSA, passengers will no longer be forced to check their constitutional rights at the airport counter, and that is a victory for all.

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To "Americans for Prosperity" Capitalism Is a Love Story

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Phillips, C-Span, David Koch, President Obama, It's a Wonderful Life, Ann Coulter, Enron, Frank Capra, Koch Industries, Newt Gingrich, Capitalism, Tsa, Savings and Loan Scandal, The 2016 Olympic Games, Henry Clay Frick, Cnbc, Tyco, Free Market Fundamentalism, Americans for Prosperity, Laura Ingraham, Worldcom, Afp, Larry Kudlow, Supply-Side Economics, Knights of Labor, National Defending the American Dream Summit, Megan McCain, Long-Term Capital Management, John Birch Society, Pinkertons, Politics News

The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.

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NY Times Mega-Softballs Napolitano on Sunday, Exposes Department Abuses on Thursday

Nathan Robinson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Media Criticism, New York Times, Immigration, Tsa, Janet Napolitano, Media News

On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine ran an absurdly fluffy interview with Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

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Airports Eye Changes In Water Bottle Rules

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Tsa, Rosemarie Andolino, Midway Airport, Travel, O'Hare, Airport Security, Airport Water Bottles, Airport Liquid Bottles Rules, Chicago News

On Wednesday, Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino used a so-called "Airports Going Green" conference to float an idea pioneered in Portland that ...

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G-Force: Disney's Loveable Rodent Gets an AK-47

Tom Gregory | Posted 08.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Safety, Walt Disney, G-Force, War in Afghanistan, Alcohol. Tobacco, Right Wing, Militias, Hollywood, Tsa, Gang Violence, Mickey Mouse, Iraq War, Firearms, Disney, Video Games, Summer Blockbuster, Entertainment News

This week Disney launched its D-Day assault. With the advertisements for G-Force gracing every highway across America, big artillery has reached the "cute" stage.

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