Just in time for the holiday travel rush, the T.S.A. is facing perhaps its most public pat-down gross-out yet.
An investigation of TSA employees at Newark Liberty Airport found that the people charged with screening passengers for flights are do the important parts of their job correctly less than 20 percent of the time.
The worrisome part of Sunday's big New York Times expose on TSA racial profiling at Boston's Logan Airport is that some in the agency look to be expanding their role into everyday police work, when they still can't get the hang of actually securing airports
Discovered: We give up searching when targets are few and far between; studying the urban landscape; science teachers release invasive species into the wild; inside the brains of hoarders.
Today, Serena Dai took a look at the flight paths some corpses take to reach their final resting places. One of our commenters got to wondering if the dead have to go through the same airport security measures as the rest of us.
Airport security officials are asking a lot of questions today after a pilot wanted for murder broke into an airport, stole an empty plane, crashed it trying to take off, then killed himself inside.
The Associated Press reports that the federal government's list of those who are banned from flying in or to the United States has more than doubled in the last year, to 21,000 names.
It's a little hard to figure out what's more ridiculous about the U.K. tourists banned from entering the U.S. after Twitter jokes: Is it how seriously U.S. security folks take their Twitter or how shocked and appalled the Daily Mail is about it?
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano gave a hint at an event this morning
Futuristic security technology comes pre-equipped with serious privacy concerns
Cartoonist Tom Toles suggests our priorities may be out of whack
Ms. Rivers shows up on Larry King, and shows up mad
Liberals argue that mandatory screenings for passengers from "terror-prone" countries could backfire
Andrew Breitbart decries a lapse in airport security: a military blogger refuses to answer questions at the border, gets cuffed
Bloggers react to a new TSA policy clamping down on passengers traveling from 14 terror-prone countries
Why bloggers think the new security measures are both inconvenient and ineffective
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