Let's see, allowing people to walk around airports hiding their identities beneath face paint doesn't seem like a potential security risk to me at all.
The controversial full-body scanners that the Transportation Security Administration has been using in airports to detect illegal objects being hidden by passengers will be removed from all airports.
According to reports from the Transportation Security Administration, the agency plans to clean a little house at the Newark International Airport by firing 25 employees and suspending 19 others for alleged misconduct.
In a seemingly related pair of stories, a recent internal TSA investigation revealed frequent security failures, while an ABC News story investigated rampant theft at the TSA.
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We all gripe about having to take our shoes off when we go through airport security, but according to a list of items confiscated this year by the TSA, footwear may be the least of its concerns.
When you hear about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), it’s usually because one of its agents has aggressively searched someone they probably shouldn’t have searched so aggressively.
But despite the drumbeat of negative stories surrounding the folks entrusted with our airport security the general public hasn’t turned on the TSA.
This news ought to do little to renew your faith in airport security systems. On Tuesday, a man boarded a plane in San Diego without a ticket.
Even worse, he was just released from jail a day earlier.
Seems easy enough, stuff all you need for a short trip in a small bag and be on your way. Well in these days of TSA security and $50 dollar luggage fees knowing before you are going is a pretty big deal. I was checking out Fox News and came across this wonderful video on how to load that carry on to the fullest, still get through TSA and avoid the luggage fees all at the same time...
An airport screeners observation briefly shut down the Lafayette airport yesterday. It turns out the culprit was something you might have in your own home.