From patdowns to checkpoints and roadblocks. Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists ... MORE
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Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts
Scott Holleran: Abolish The TSA
It does not protect and defend, it endangers. It’s peak travel season, so it’s a good time to examine the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a government agency
created by President George W. Bush supposedly to protect air
passengers. As a recent government accountability report and deadly attack on Los Angeles Airport ... MORE
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Ever Vigilant, TSA Confiscates Sock Monkey's Toy Pistol
You can't make this stuff up. "Rooster Monkburn" the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis. Phyllis May of Redmond, Wash. says she is “appalled and shocked and embarrassed all at the same time” about the incident that happened on Wednesday. May has a small business selling unique sock ... MORE
TSA: Parking At Airport Grounds For Warrantless Search
Bureaucratic dictate trumps 4th Amendment. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has now expanded its intrusive searching protocol to include the interior of parked cars left at the airport. Reports of vehicle searches have been reported at multiple airports since this summer. Since roughly June, airports have ... MORE
Crony Capitalism Drives Airport Security
from The Dollar Vigilante Blog. There is yet another reason not to fly into or within the US.
“Nazi-style detention pods” – that's what opponents of the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have called the new “exit
pods” being tested at the Syracuse (NY) airport. But the pods are not
primarily a rape of civil rights. Their import ... MORE
TSA Spent Nearly $1 Billion To Detect 0 Terrorists
So much for behavior detection officers. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spent approximately $900 million over the last 5 years for behavior detection officers to identify high-risk passengers but, so far, according to the General Accountability Office (GAO), only 0.59% of the passengers flagged were arrested and among those ... MORE
Susan Stellin: Security Check Starts Long Before You Fly
New scrutiny for air travelers. The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information. While the agency says that the goal is to ... MORE
Niels Gerson Lohman: Why I Will Never Return To The U.S.
America has become an ugly place to visit. After a year of travelling, I had planned a last, short trip. I was going to take the train from Montreal to New Orleans. The travels I had been undertaking earlier this year had brought me to places that were meant to form the background of my second novel. This trip, however was for my ... MORE
Emily Goff: The Top 10 Ways Washington Wastes Money
Lawmakers have lost control. Whether it’s negotiating over how much to spend on government operations or the government’s borrowing limit, we hear a familiar refrain in Washington these days: There is absolutely no room to cut federal spending. This is not the case. Many people remember the millions spent on the infamous “Bridge ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: AWESOME! TSA Creepers Just Got Creepier
Government gropers to become ubiquitous. Janet Napolitano’s TSA agents won’t keep their blue, latex-covered
paws to themselves. The TSA is now expanding its grope to rodeos, sports
stadiums, music festivals and train stations. The TSA’s signature move is like the signature move of a guy who
“accidently” brushes his hand against a woman’s ... MORE
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Steve Chapman: TSA's Inept Bureaucracy Mindlessly Grows
Just like its close relative, the cancer cell. If you're an air traveler who feels the urge to pull your hair out every time you enter a security line at the airport, you may have considered taking Amtrak or even the bus instead. If so, you may want to scratch that idea. The Transportation Security Administration, you see, is showing up in ... MORE
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 ... MORE
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Mark 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 ... MORE
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Walter 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 ... MORE
TSA: 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 ... MORE
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TSA 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 ... MORE
4 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 ... MORE
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