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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
It doesn’t take much to get an airport security badge these days, even if you are a dog. (more)
Transportation Security Administration screeners confiscated a pregnant woman’s insulin and ice packs Thursday afternoon at Denver International Airport. (more)
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)
