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Disabled Marine 'humiliated' by agents at Phoenix airport

| Caroline May
SECURITY PAT DOWNS

‘An officer then made him remove his legs, then put them back on”

11-year-old hitchhiker boards plane from UK to Rome without passport or ticket - TheDC

| Hillary Alexander
Jet2.com

Boy ditches mom at shopping mall, tricks airport security

Parents try to smuggle baby past airport security in carry on - Gulf News

| InternAdmin
JFK Runway

‘When customs officials saw the baby inside the bag at the X-ray scanner, they were stunned’

TSA screening study leaves health questions unanswered - TheDCNF

| Betsi Fores
BP America/Flickr

Republican Sen. Susan Collins and other lawmakers recently asked the Transportation Security Administration to thoroughly study the health effects of its body scanners. Instead, like a nervous passenger, the agency seems to have “opted out” of that particular request. Sen. Collins, along with other lawmakers, requested a new report to address the effects of TSA’s [...]

DHS: New airport security policy for kids under 12 - AP

| admin
Sept 11 The Skies

Children will no longer have to remove shoes once plan is finalized

Police: Suspicious cargo at Dulles not a danger - AP

| admin
Terror Threat

Officials say there was nothing harmful about suspicious boxes on a cargo pallet that prompted an hours-long evacuation of several gates

U.S. airport security will allow travelers to keep shoes on - NY Daily News

| InternAdmin
Airport Security

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says passengers won’t have to remove shoes in the future

Bin Laden lives on through the TSA

| Ron Hart

The TSA is a prime example of how government programs often hurt the people they’re supposed to protect.

Texas senate passes bill to prohibit TSA pat-downs - Star-Telegram

| InternAdmin
Texas Airport

The bill would expand the federal definition of ‘official oppression’ to ban federal employees from improperly touching a person’s privates

Why Bogdan Dzakovic won't fly

| Becky Akers

An aviation security expert explains why he avoids air travel.

Police at Miami airport after explosion in bag - AP

| Steven Nelson (admin)

The bag was damaged and shreds of what appears to have been a pressurized can recovered

Naked insecurity: Bombs and guns continue to go undetected at airports - ABC

| Steven Nelson (admin)

Classified government studies leaked to the media show that bombs were easily smuggled past airport security by undercover agents

The TSA singers

| Theo Caldwell

The TSA is trying to improve its image by singing to people. Instead of singing, they should stop grabbing people’s groins.

Profiling airline passengers is constitutional and effective

| Daniel Huff

The Supreme Court ruled in 1996 that profiling in certain instances is constitutional.

Khloe Kardashian: Airport security is 'like being raped' - Daily Mail

| Julia McClatchy (admin)

The 26-year-old equated new TSA airport security measures to ‘being raped’ in public after she was subject to a patdown at the airport recently

Is the TSA targeting women?

| Theo Caldwell

It seems like women are more likely to be patted down than men.

The solution to the TSA scanner dilemma

| Daniel Maxson

A new infrared scanner that the TSA is currently reviewing would eliminate privacy concerns.

Pat-downs bring polls down - TheDC

| Jeff Winkler

New Poll shows approval for TSA dips even lower

The last line of defense

| David Rittgers

David Rittgers imagines what a letter from TSA head John Pistole to the public would look like.

It's like a Tea Party... with groping, nudity, and kilts - AP

| admin

Placards, kilts part of plans for Wednesday travel scanner protests