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• If you love the TSA, watch this - 05 Mar 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns & TSA News & Videos

  It happened again. At a time when the federal agency assigned to protect America’s transportation systems can least afford it, there was another dust-up involving a young passenger — this time to Lucy Forck, a three-year-old with spina bifida flying to Disney World with her family. When the little girl in a wheelchair is pulled [...]

• Kansas joins list of states trying to rein in the TSA - 20 Feb 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns & TSA News

  Kansas is joining a list of states that are trying to curb the abuses and crimes of the TSA, since it’s apparent that Congress isn’t going to do it. Kansas State Representative Brett Hildabrand and 20 of his colleagues have introduced legislation that would make it illegal for the TSA to do what’s already illegal if anyone else [...]

• The TSA wants to be everywhere in 2013 — here’s why we shouldn’t let it - 08 Jan 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns & Police State & Privacy & Terrorism

  When the Minnesota Vikings faced off against the Green Bay Packers last weekend in Minneapolis, the big story wasn’t that the Vikings defeated the Pack to secure a wildcard berth. It was, strangely, the TSA. That’s right, the agency assigned to protect America’s transportation systems was patrolling the Metrodome. Nathan Hansen, a North St. Paul, [...]

• Are airlines responsible for America’s TSA disaster? - 13 Dec 2012
  posted in Bureaucracy & Terrorism

  One of the more interesting reactions to last week’s post arguing that the TSA as we know it is dead came from a publicist for one of the airline trade associations. In a polite but insistent email, he claimed I’d misunderstood the congressional testimony by one of his executives. The airline industry rep was criticizing [...]

• It’s Time to Overhaul the Transportation Security Administration - 20 Nov 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Bureaucracy & Civil Liberties & Columns

  “The TSA has grown into a top-heavy, unmanageable agency, evidenced by its 400% increase in workforce since its founding. The agency’s flaws are not the fault of TSA employees working everyday on the front lines, but instead that of a bloated leadership structure in Washington, DC. When attempting to conduct oversight, instead of cooperation from [...]

• Looking Beyond Election Day: The Issues That Threaten to Derail the Nation - 31 Oct 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Natural Rights & Police State & Surveillance & War

  While it may be months before the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy can be fully resolved, Americans cannot afford to lose sight of the very real and pressing issues that threaten to derail the nation.

• Is this the only way to change the TSA? - 30 Oct 2012
  posted in Privacy & Property & Tech & Terrorism & Videos

  Here’s a question everyone should be asking after last week’s stunning verdict against Andrea Abbott, the Nashville mother who tried to stop TSA agents from patting down her teenage daughter: Where do travelers turn when they have a legitimate grievance against the agency charged with protecting America’s transportation systems? Abbott and her daughter refused to [...]

• What’s the problem with the TSA’s pat-downs? - 16 Oct 2012
  posted in Coercion & Columns & Police State & Terrorism

  Michelle Dunaj, the terminally ill passenger who claims TSA agents in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport botched her pat-down, drew a visceral reaction from travelers with the humiliating details of her screening. Readers were outraged that agents at Sea-Tac, an airport where TSA employees have a reputation for being difficult, would subject a dying passenger to such [...]

• TSA agent admits to stealing cash from passenger as punishment - 09 Oct 2012
  posted in TSA News & Voices

  As we’ve noted several times, TSA agents often act out of petulance and pique. Because they have absolute power, they can abuse it. And they do. The latest example of this is the guilty plea from TSA agent John W. Irwin. As Press TV reports, Irwin stole $520 from a passenger because the passenger wasn’t [...]

• What TSA’s iPad theft problem means for your next flight - 02 Oct 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Bureaucracy & Civil Liberties & Columns & Politics & Govt & Terrorism

  TSA agents seem to have a thing for iPads. Apple’s tablet computers are easy to swipe from unwitting airline passengers and can be sold quickly online, as I noted earlier this year. You’d think the TSA would do something about the wave of thefts reported this spring. But instead, it has apparently done nothing. Less [...]