WASHINGTON (AP) — Children 12 years old and younger soon will no longer be required to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress on Tuesday. The policy also includes other ways to screen young children without resorting to a pat-down that involves touching private areas on the body. (more)
CHANTILLY, Virginia (AP) — Police and airport officials say there was nothing dangerous about suspicious boxes on a cargo pallet that prompted an hours-long evacuation of several gates at Dulles International Airport. (more)
The cumbersome task of kicking off your shoes at U.S. airport checkpoints may soon be gone, Politico reported Tuesday. (more)
We celebrated our freedoms on the Fourth of July, but we seem to be slowly losing them. (more)
AUSTIN — The Texas House on Monday gave preliminary approval to legislation that prohibits invasive pat-downs by federal airport security agents after incorporating changes that led House Speaker Joe Straus to drop his resistance to the bill. (more)
“Who’s Bogdan Dzakovic?” you may ask. “And why should I care whether he flies?” (more)
MIAMI — Police are at Miami International Airport after what appears to be an aerosol can exploded inside a bag on the tarmac. No one was injured. (more)
Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight. (more)
Last Christmas, it looked like TSA might finally be getting serious. (more)
As one of the more outspoken members of the Kardashian family, Khloe is known for not hesitating to speak her mind. (more)
The young, male TSA officer walks slowly down the line of airline passengers waiting to clear security. He looks down at tickets, up at faces, then points to those whom he selects for additional screening. In a theoretically possible, albeit unlikely, random sample, when the officer reaches the end of the long queue, we find that every passenger he has chosen for further scrutiny is female. (more)
The news media has focused a lot of attention on polls showing that most Americans will accept naked body scanners if it means they can fly more safely. The problem with these polls is that they may be asking the wrong question. A better question might be which full-body scanner technology would you prefer: one that creates a naked image of you, or one that creates an image of you fully clothed? (more)
The backlash and public outcry over the Transportation Security Agency’s new procedures has reached a new low, with a recent Rasmussen poll showing that 51 percent of airplane travelers think airport security is “good or excellent,” a significant drop in support from recent polling. (more)
From: John Pistole, Director, Transportation Security Administration (more)
CHICAGO (AP) — The lines moved smoothly at airports around the country Wednesday afternoon despite an Internet campaign to get Thanksgiving travelers to gum up the works on one of the busiest days of the year by refusing full-body scans. (more)
For a White House often accused of being lax on national security, the uproar over invasive security techniques at airports is a head-snapping swing in the other direction. (more)
WASHINGTON — The head of the agency responsible for airport security, facing protests from travelers and pressure from the White House, appeared to give ground Sunday on his position that there would be no change in policies regarding invasive passenger screening procedures. (more)
John Tyner became a YouTube sensation this week for recording and sharing his confrontation with TSA officials over the pat-down he was required to endure to get on an airplane. His outrageous experience clearly touched a nerve with a lot of Americans — myself included. (more)
John Tyner knows he’s at minute 14.5 of his headlong rush into the national spotlight. And he couldn’t be happier. (more)
