Government expands its warrantless search program. As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds. The squad was not with the D.C. Police Department or Amtrak’s ... MORE
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Ron Nixon: TSA Expands To Railroad Stations And Beyond
Government expands its warrantless search program. As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds. The squad was not with the D.C. Police Department or Amtrak’s ... MOREMark K. Matthews: TSA Misconduct Is On The Rise
Luggage theft. Drug use. Sleeping on the job. These are just a handful
of nearly 10,000 reports of misconduct involving employees at the Transportation Security Administration from 2010 to 2012, according to a new watchdog report. As
disturbing, wrote federal investigators, is that these allegations are
on the rise: increasing from 2,691 reports ... MOREWalter E Williams: Profiling
Understanding probability is useful. Police Capt. Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains in the 1942 movie "Casablanca," in the wake of the shooting of a Nazi officer, ordered his men to "round up the usual suspects." Was Renault engaging in some sort of profiling? He may have been, but what is profiling? Let's look at it. We can think of ... MORETSA: Pay More And We Will Grope You Less
Purchase exemption from warrantless airport searches. The government is expanding the ways airline passengers can enroll in an expedited screening program that allows travelers to leave on their shoes, light outerwear and belts and keep laptop computers in cases at security checkpoints. Under the Transportation Security Administration's ... MORETSA Conducts Searches On Valet-Parked Cars At Airport
More warrantless searches from the feds. The Transportation Security Administration is directing valet attendants to search parked cars for explosives at a New York airport, according to a report by local television station News10NBC. Traveler Laurie Iacuzza recently flew out of Greater Rochester International Airport and upon returning ... MORE4 Ways the Fourth Amendment's Already Being Pummeled
by Ed Krayewski. Last week The Guardian and The
Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency
collects information on the phone and Internet habits of millions
of Americans. Since then we've seen President Barack Obama
argue against the strawman of combining “100 percent
privacy and 100 percent security.” We've seen the ... MORE
David Bittle: TSA = Thousands Standing Around
The enormous apparatus isn’t making us safer. Not long ago while walking through the airport, the following
announcement caught my attention: “Will the person who forgot their
hearing aids please return to the Transportation Security Administration
security checkpoint to reclaim them.” It took me a moment to absorb
entirely the irony of the ... MORESteve Chapman: When In Doubt, Do Nothing
Credo of the government bureaucrat. Once in a while, a government agency adopts a policy that is
logical, hardheaded, based on experience and unswayed by cheap
sentiment. This may be surprising enough to make you reconsider
your view of bureaucrats. But not to worry: It usually doesn't
last. In March the federal Transportation Security Administration . ... MOREDHS Explains Plans To Buy 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo
It is all about saving taxpayer money. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has responded to a letter dated November 13, 2012 from Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) regarding the agency's ammunition purchases. Sen. Coburn published the response on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ... MORE'Public Servants' Humiliate American Hero At Airport
TSA demands marine take off his legs for search. Transportation Security Administration inspectors forced a wounded
Marine who lost both of his legs in an IED blast and who was in a
wheelchair to remove his prosthetic legs at one point, and at another
point to stand painfully on his legs while his wheelchair was examined,
according to a ... MOREFemale Senator Gets 'Very Uncomfortable' TSA Screening
by Keith Laing. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) complained Monday she was subject to a very uncomfortable screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). McCaskill tweeted about the experience before boarding a flight on Monday. The senator, who has complained about the TSA's security techniques in the past, tweeted that ... MOREBill Sanderson: TSA Guys Hard On Sex Toys
Airport screeners love rifling through sex toys. Airport-security screeners apparently get a kink out of rifling through your sexy baggage. “My checked bag is searched almost every time I fly. I guess I’m just lucky, or look suspicious!” said sex blogger Rori Sweet of the DC area. Kitty Stryker, a California sex educator, added, “They always ... MORETristan Higgins: Why I Hate The TSA
Ignorance and humiliation "public servant-style." Some days are worse than others. I've talked a lot on my blog
about what I experience as a butch lesbian, specifically how people
interact with me when they see that I don't conform to the gender
identities that they expect. I feel all lined up on the inside -- I am a
woman physically, and I feel like ... MORERand Paul To Take On TSA Once Again
Privatize security. We’ve complained long and hard about the TSA and it’s terrible “security” practices for years. It’s a horrible agency that should have never been instituted. Fortunately, Rand Paul is on the case: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will very likely re-introduce legislation to drastically scale back the Transportation Securities ... MORE3 Troubling Ways TSA Punishes Passengers Who Opt Out
Intimidation, harassment and retaliatory wait time. If you don't want to walk through a poorly tested full-body scanner or have a TSA agent belittle your anatomy before your next flight, then you still have the right to opt out and submit to an "enhanced" pat-down. That's exactly what I did on a recent trip from Orlando to Atlanta. ... MOREKatie Kieffer: 12 Liberal Pledges For The New Year
Conquering one form of mental illness. Here are twelve comical but true resolutions that every liberal should make for 2013: 1.) Resolve to spend time with gun-owners. I have a liberal friend who says she would rather be in the same room as a cobra snake than a gun, even an unloaded gun. Guns really, really scare her. But guns don’t kill. ... MORENaked Passenger Images Provide Laughs For TSA Officers
by Paul Joseph Watson. A former TSA screener turned blogger who is now causing embarrassment for the federal agency has revealed that TSA officers routinely laugh at and make fun of passengers’ nude body scanner images in back rooms. In a blog entitled Taking Sense Away,
the anonymous ex-TSA worker reveals how he, “Witnessed light ... MOREChristopher Elliott: 3 Reasons Terrorists Laugh At Us
Thanks, TSA. Nothing will wipe a grin off your face faster than a squad of Navy SEALs rappelling into your anonymous compound from a Black Hawk. But while Osama Bin Laden is dead and gone, and unable to mock America's clumsy efforts to protect its planes from our Homeland-fueled fantasies, his disciples are more than capable of laughing at us. And laugh they ... MORE
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