“Transportation Security Administration” on The Daily Caller

Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun, M.D. demanded the resignation of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole Wednesday for “flagrant violations of [Americans'] civil rights occurring at airports nationwide.” (more)

Former Transportation Security Administration Administrator Kip Hawley told The Daily Caller that the threat of terrorism “is not going away” and that widespread public mistrust of TSA agents is “dangerous.” (more)

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On her Friday program, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviewed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, grilling the security boss about the ineffectiveness of intrusive airport screening measures and asking her to account for a frightening mid-air incident. (more)

Christopher McLaughlin, Assistant Administrator for Security Operations at the Transportation Security Administration told The Daily Caller that the TSA currently has no plans for mandatory security screenings in subways and train stations. (more)

On Wednesday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano denied having any knowledge of Jonathan Corbett’s popular YouTube video titled “How to Get Anything through TSA Nude Body Scanners.” (more)

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. (more)

Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole has responded to an incident involving the TSA denying a mother entry on a flight until she could prove her breast pump was real, saying that passengers need to be “better-informed” before flying by “looking at the TSA.gov website.” Pistole also recounted his personal experience receiving pat-downs from TSA agents. (more)

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)