Pilot exposes security flaws, government spank. The YouTube videos, posted Nov. 28, show what the pilot calls the irony of flight crews being forced to go through TSA screening while ground crew who service the aircraft are able to access … Continue reading
Bombs from Yemen designed to blow up planes, maybe. There sure is a lot of “we don’t know” with this one. One thing I do know. The TSA didn’t stop it. TSA: Failing to stop terrorists for nine years!
Keeping the focus: safety The previous system failed catastrophically. But the attacks didn’t succeed because it was a private system. The attacks succeeded because — quite simply — we lived in a pre-9/11 world, one in which knives and box … Continue reading
Or why the TSA will always be made of fail. The TSA is using the French security model which like all things French is made of fail. After the disaster that was The Great War, the French decided they never … Continue reading
via Joe Huffman Representatives Peter T. King (R – New York), Charles Dent (R – Pennsylvania) and Gus Bilirakis (R – Florida) can kiss my ass. Three Republican lawmakers have asked the Department of Homeland Security what can be done … Continue reading
Because having a “bathroom emergency” could get you arrested on felony charges. Joao Correa, 43, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he had a bathroom emergency 30 minutes into a March 28 Delta Air Lines flight from Honduras to Atlanta, but found … Continue reading
Campaign for Liberty employee Steve Bierfeldt was detained and questioned by TSA in St. Louis. TSA Idiocy ensues. OMFG! “If you have nothing to hide…” Seriously? Ultimately, an FBI agent showed up, found out the money was from campaign contributions … Continue reading
From the Luggage Blog: 10 Worst TSA Employees of 2008 Stealing valuables, gross ignorance, petty tyranny, lethal incompetence and institutional failure. It’s all on display in this year end wrap up of the failure that is the TSA.
More evidence of security theater: Last Thursday, December 5, I brought five ounces (140 grams) of old-fashioned black gunpowder to San Francisco airport. I also brought along a boarding pass for United flight 720 to Denver that I had created … Continue reading
I’m shocked. Despite breathless reporting, it looks like someone at the TSA checkpoint in Kennedy Airport displayed an unusual level of common sense. Federal airport screeners found two grenades in the luggage of a man set to board a JetBlue … Continue reading