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One Year Later: Epiphanies in the TSA Break Room
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Opinion: Airport Security Complaints -- We've Been Here Before
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 3) -- Forty years ago, in the aftermath of a flurry of aircraft hijackings, many of them to Cuba, President Richard Nixon issued an executive order implementing mandatory surveillance and screening searches at U.S. airports. Procedures included screening by magnetometer and pat-downs of passengers who activated the magnetometers. Although these procedures aroused outrage among self-professed civil libertarians who initiated numerous lawsuits against the government, the general public by and large accepted these security measures as necessary for their own safety. Four Views on ...
The TSA's Greatest Hits: 4 Notorious Pat-Downs
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(Nov. 22) -- It hit critical mass when a California man decided that the government's new airport security measures went too far. "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," John Tyner told a Transportation Security Administration agent in a San Diego airport earlier this month, as the agent prepared to perform a new and "enhanced" pat-down. But the backlash that started with that simple warning has reached new heights, just in time for the Thanksgiving travel crunch. Some travelers have threatened to revolt on Wednesday, the busiest travel day of the year, and are planning a "National ...
TSA Airport Screening: Come Die With Me
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyYou are witnessing the death of an industry. What the eco-freaks could never do -- drum up significant support for mass transit -- the TSA has done in just one decade. Hard to believe there was a time when flying was glamorous, but glamorous, exciting and sexy it was from the 1940s through the 1960s. Stewardesses wore cute little suits, and passengers dressed up too. Airline meals weren't great, but they sure beat the tiny bags of pretzels we get now. Back in the day, the word airplane conjured up images of passengers disembarking in Honolulu, welcomed by young women holding leis. An ...
Pilots Allowed to Skip Intrusive Airport Screening
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 20) -- Pilots are getting a break from enduring the stepped-up and intrusive screening of airline passengers that's causing a public outcry. Days before the Thanksgiving holiday travel period, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole offered little hope of a similar reprieve for regular passengers. The agency agreed on Friday to let uniformed airline pilots skip the body scans and aggressive pat-downs. Pilots must pass through a metal detector at airport checkpoints and present photo IDs that prove their identity. The change followed a 2-year lobbying ...
Full-Body Security Scanners: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 21) -- Modesty and air travel are two concepts that appear to be mutually exclusive these days, thanks to an increasing level of scrutiny at the security checkpoint. Exhibit A: the controversial full-body scanner, likely coming soon to an airport near you. In the U.S., 142 are currently in operation at 41 airports, and another 309 will be in place by the end of the year, notes The New York Times. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security released the names of the next 28 airports to receive this high-tech screening tool. Airports Next-in-Line for Full-Body Scanners The * ...
Left Unsaid: How to Connect the Terrorism Dots
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Jan. 5) -- When President Barack Obama declared that U.S. intelligence must do more to identify potential terror threats, he left out one key detail: just how the government will piece together future plots in time to foil them. After meeting with his top national security advisers, Obama said Tuesday that the government had enough information to prevent the attempted attack on a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, when a young Nigerian man allegedly tried to set off explosives tucked inside his underpants. But suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to get on the U.S. airliner because ...
Do Airport Body Scanners Break Child Porn Laws?
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Dec. 5) – Since the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, officials in the United States, Canada, Britain and the Netherlands have called for new advanced full-body scanners to be used on all passengers. But privacy campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic are warning that the personnel operating these machines – which see through travelers' clothing, making it easier to identify explosives and weapons – could be charged under child pornography laws if they scan anyone under the age of 18. Those concerns last month led British officials to ...
U.S. Will Tighten Security Screenings for Travelers From 14 Nations
By David Sessions - Politics DailyObama administration officials announced Sunday that travelers from 14 nations, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Yemen, will face tighter security screenings before flying to the United States, the New York Times reports. The rule change will scale back intensified screenings of American citizens imposed after a Dec. 25 airliner bombing attempt, but is a major step toward a global security system that treats airline passengers differently based on their countries of origin. People from the 14 countries will automatically be patted down, even if they have lived in a country like ...
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