“Transportation Security Administration” on The Daily Caller

January 24th, 2012

Rep. Ron Paul is using Monday’s high-profile incident of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) detaining his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, at a Tennessee airport to raise money for his presidential campaign. (more)

January 23rd, 2012

The White House doesn’t dispute that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was refused access to his flight Monday morning by the Transportation Security Administration. Instead, spokesman Jay Carney sought to quibble over the definition of “detain.” (more)

January 23rd, 2012

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul issued a sharply-worded statement in reaction to the detention of his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, by Transportation Security Administration agents in Nashville on Monday. (more)

January 23rd, 2012

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s press secretary Moira Bagley tweeted on Monday that Transportation Security Administration officials were detaining her boss in Nashville, Tenn. (more)

January 11th, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) – Two Transportation Security Administration officers who admitted stealing $40,000 from luggage at a New York City airport are going to jail. (more)

December 26th, 2011

Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes is blaming agents with the Transportation Security Administration for removing his employer’s logo from his bag and ultimately damaging his luggage as he traveled by air over the holiday weekend. (more)

December 26th, 2011

The Transportation Security Administration had quite a year of free publicity in 2011, including headline-grabbing news of agents groping grandmas, fondling supermodels, joking about passengers’ “junk” while virtually disrobing them and pilfering possessions from luggage. (more)

December 11th, 2011

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two New York lawmakers have called for a passenger advocate at airports to immediately act on complaints by passengers over security screenings. (more)

December 4th, 2011

An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. (more)

December 2nd, 2011

Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Gibbs’ purse drew more attention than she bargained for this week, when its metal-embossed design in the shape of a gun was deemed a “federal offense” by TSA employees at the airport in Norfolk, Va. (more)

November 21st, 2011

In my commentaries, I’ve not always been a fan of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially when it comes to its privacy-invasive techniques and technologies. In fairness to the agency, however, the new, still-being-implemented Trusted Traveler program is focused, reasonable and — thus far — well-managed. The program allows pre-approved travelers to bypass some of the TSA’s more onerous screening procedures. It represents, better than any other program undertaken by the TSA in its decade-long existence, how passenger air travel security ought to be administered. (more)

November 17th, 2011

Victims of sexual assault seldom defend their attackers. So it’s always surprising when passengers insist that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should molest us at airports. “Whatever keeps us safe,” these folks argue, as if every groped grandmother vanquishes another 10 terrorists. (more)

November 7th, 2011

For more than a year now, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been using invasive methods to search airline passengers as part of the so-called “war on terrorism.” To many Americans, such tactics constitute a clear assault on our civil liberties, and some have decided not to sit by idly. Not surprisingly, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is among this group. (more)

November 3rd, 2011

Not content with hassling air passengers at airports across the country, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now implementing plans to stop vehicles traveling America’s highways and byways, in the hope of finding terrorists and other lawbreakers. The acronym that government brainiacs have concocted for this intrusive program is “VIPR” — short for the “Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response.” (more)

October 25th, 2011

1.) Obama is very disappointed in you, United States Constitution — Are you satisfied, Constitution? Everything would be great right now if you would just let Obama do whatever he wants. But nooooo. Well, fine. Fine. Now see what you’re making him do. TheDC’s Nicholas Ballasy reports: (more)

October 24th, 2011

Frequent travelers may be used to finding an official note from the Transportation Security Administration alerting them that their checked bags have been searched, but rarely does the TSA take the opportunity to get a little more — or a lot more — personal with travelers. (more)

August 5th, 2011

You would think that ogling passengers in carcinogenic scanners, stripping diapers from little old ladies who are dying of cancer and molesting children would be enough mischief for any agency. But no. Now the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants us to chat with our assailants. Why? Because it pretends they can read our minds for “malintent.” (more)

August 5th, 2011

It doesn’t take much to get an airport security badge these days, even if you are a dog. (more)

August 5th, 2011

Transportation Security Administration screeners confiscated a pregnant woman’s insulin and ice packs Thursday afternoon at Denver International Airport. (more)

August 3rd, 2011

Passengers flying through Boston’s Logan International Airport will notice the security screeners are chattier than usual, but it’s not an improved customer service policy. (more)

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