The Sequester's Horrible Airport Waits Haven't Kicked In
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There will soon be new seating sections on domestic airlines. In front of the reinforced cockpit door will be the "safe zone." Behind that passengers will have a medieval free-for-all with (tiny) knives and (golf) clubs — at least, that's what the flight attendants are saying today.
Has the sequestration actually resulted in a huge increase to airport security wait times? We used the (not very helpful) tools available online to find out!
America's friskiest government agency offered an apology to 3-year-old Lucy Forck on Wednesday, which, like so much of the TSA's second guessing in the last decade — at least when it comes to disabled child passengers — arrived only after an airport screening went viral.
After a contentious fight over the near-naked images security agents were seeing on the other side of full-body scans at many of the nation's airports, the TSA has decided to replace a version of its scanners with slightly less scandalous — but equally weird — machines.
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
Quick, what's scarier? That Delta found out it was serving needle-filled turkey sandwiches to their Business Class passengers or the fact that if you pay $6,000 for a plane ticket all you get is turkey sandwiches (with needles) and pre-packaged pizza (thankfully without)?
We had some fun Monday with The Washington Post's report that Henry Kissinger, wheelchair bound and unrecognized by TSA security guards, underwent a "full Monty" patdown, but ever the Realpolitik practitioner, Kissinger himself didn't take too much issue with the incident
If you needed more proof that what you see on Mad Men doesn't really translate into real life (no this isn't about martini lunches), meet Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, an illegal immigrant who assumed the identity of a murdered man and made his way to becoming a security supervisor at Newark airport.
A wheelchair bound 89-year-old Henry Kissinger was submitted to a "full Monty" pat down (per The Washington Post's In the Loop) from the TSA at New York's LaGuardia Airport Monday.
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera is attracting some attention for a gross joke he made while discussing the rising tide of anger at the TSA for their often invasive airport security mishaps.
Nothing gets commenters going like a TSA outrage story: Responses to Alex Abad-Santos' post about an 18-month-old who made the no-fly list ranged from snarky to serious, but the two that made us snort imagined the baby as an actual terrorist.
They grow up so fast! Riyanna is just 18-months-old, and if you ask the TSA, today she's joined the ranks of suspected terrorists like Jeffrey Goldberg's tiny, 79-year-old mother-in-law, a seven-year old with cerebral palsy, and the four-year old child who likes to hug her grandma.
Somehow a baby going through security at Newark's Liberty International Airport didn't get screened properly on Friday. Surely this kind of thing must happen from time to time, right?
The mighty TSA had already taken down 7-year-old would-be terrorists with cerebral palsy and made at least one suspected al-Qaeda operative pump her own breast, so why not go after Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg's 79-year-old tiny mother-in-law?
Just in case you needed more reason to loathe the TSA, we have news coming out of LAX today of a ring of screeners making thousands of dollars by letting things like, oh, eight pounds of meth through the security checkpoint.
The government has announced that a new passenger-screening program will be expanding to 28 major U.S. airports, including the three used by terrorists on 9/11.
It's hard to tell whether this is more terrifying or embarrassing, but thanks in part to forgetfulness and a lack of organization it took TSA screeners at New York's La Guardia Airport six hours to call in a bomb squad to deal with some suspected pipe bombs.
Another piece of evidence casts doubt on whether or not Sen. Rand Paul was really "detained" at Nashville's airport. Security footage found by the The Tennessean shows Paul peacefully sitting in a TSA glass cubicle.
Sen. Rand Paul spoke to The Daily Caller after his very public claim that he was detained by the Transportation Security Authority in Nashville en route to a speech in Washington, saying "If you’re told you can’t leave, does that count as detention?"
Airport travelers left $409,085.56 at security checkpoints across the country in 2010, simply by emptying the change in their pockets into those plastic bins and not picking it up again.
For many Americans, traveling under TSA's rules are bad enough, and then there's the special kind of torture reserved for those people whose careers make traveling with knives and scissors absolutely necessary.
After last week's New York Times column on the pointlessess of making fliers turns off gadgets during take-off and landing, angry technophiles have started a White House petition to get the rules changed.
The TSA is so sure airport body scanners are safe -- the kind that Europe just banned because of "cancer risks -- are safe, that it'scancelling plans for a health and safety study.
There have been a series of attempts to gauge the tragedy's monetary cost
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano gave a hint at an event this morning
The new technology only addresses some of fliers' concerns
It wasn't a forgetful air marshal that left the gun in the plane's seat pocket
Nothing too invasive, we're sure
The Transportation Security Administration warns about bombs implanted in terrorists
The Texas governor makes headlines with a couple unorthodox moves
On violent video games, the TSA's machine-like training, and wacky teen lit
The daughter of the 95-year-old: "My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia"
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