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National Opt-Out Day: Touch My Junk if You Must, but No Pictures, Please
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 22) -- It might be summarized as "touch but don't look." Wednesday marks National Opt-Out Day, a grass-roots, nationwide protest against the Transportation Security Administration's use of full-body scanners that reveal an all-too-invasive view of a person's physical attributes. The organizers of National Opt-Out Day, which has been promoted on the Internet by a growing number of websites, urge Americans traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday to refuse to enter the scanners and request an enhanced pat-down by TSA agents instead. Organizers hope that an ensuing logjam of safety ...
Obama to Name Retired Army Gen. Robert Harding as Head of TSA
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama has selected retired Army Gen. Robert Harding to lead the Transportation Security Administration. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is expected to make the announcement Monday at DHS headquarters. The TSA has been leaderless after previous nominee Erroll Southers withdrew in January over allegations that he misled Congress about using government intelligence resources to do a "background check" on his ex-wife's boyfriend. Republicans opposed Southers over the issue of TSA employee unionization, a matter that Harding will have to address. Union leaders said they had ...
Tighter Security, Terrorism Worries Could Cost Airlines Big
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIncreased security and worries about terrorism could result in major revenue losses for U.S. airlines, even if just 1 percent of their customers decide not to fly, USA Today reports. "A 1 percent drop in demand would be equal to a revenue hit of more than $1 billion," says analyst Vaughn Cordle at AirlineForecasts. "And because airlines are so highly leveraged, nearly all of that would come off their profit bottom lines." It would only take losing as few as two or three passengers per flight to create a 1 percent drop in revenue, showing how fragile the profit-and-loss picture is for an ...
Common Excuse for Guns at Airport: 'Oops'
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 25) -- A lot of things became off-limits at airports after Sept. 11, 2001, but a surprising number of passengers still get caught with a particularly big no-no: firearms. The Transportation Security Administration says that so far this year 793 firearms have been discovered at U.S. airport checkpoints -- and we've still got two major league holidays to go: Thanksgiving and Christmas. Last year, in total, there were 902 firearms found. "The most common excuse we've heard would simply be that the individual forgot the item was in the bag," says TSA spokeswoman Lauren ...
Saved the Hair Conditioner, Missed the Flight
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailySo I'm writing this from a very uncomfortable "leather" chair at Gate A3 of the LaGuardia Airport in Queens, N.Y. My butt hurts and my nerves are in worse shape. See, I'm supposed to be on my way to my grandmother's house, but the big bad wolf that is the Transportation Security Administration had other ideas. "My, what big badges you have!" See, I had this $20, eight-once bottle of leave-in conditioner that I stupidly packed in my carry-on bag and not my check-in bag (I've been living out of these two DVF workhorses since May, so I should know better. And I should have read Emily's post on ...
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