Happy birthday, TSA!
Today is the TSA‘s 10th birthday and there are celebrations all around the country. Passengers everywhere are feting the organization for their polite, respectful and...
Screening Management SOP
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EU bans nude-o-scopes as cancer risk; TSA doesn’t care
The European Union has issued a ruling this week prohibiting the use of one type of body-imaging scanners at airports. The ruling was handed down...
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SSI only secret when it is convenient
I know that expecting a consistent and coherent implementation of policy from the TSA is a pipe dream. Still, there are a few bits that...
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Why I will continue to travel, despite the TSA
Part of me says that I should have seen this all coming. The TSA has been pretty good about demonstrating just how incompetent they are...
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Bad policies, bad decisions and a terrible blunder at the TSA
In a report that should come as no surprise to anyone following the story, the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General has blasted the Transportation...
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New TSA policy a violation of, um, TSA policy
Gotta love an Agency that can managed to violate their own rules when creating rules. I suppose if they never bothered to publically state either...
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Getting called out by a Congressman
I must admit that being admonished by a Congressman has never been particularly high on my list of things to do. I’ve generally tried to...
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Congressional hearings about the TSA SOP debacle
Nothing like calling the boss onto the mat in front of Congress to get some answers when a mess happens in government. Not that it...
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TSA backpedaling on the redacted SOP
On Monday the TSA made it very clear that the version of the Screening Management SOP that was posted to the fbo.gov website was not a...
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Congress takes TSA to task
As it so happens there were hearings scheduled for this morning in Congress for some TSA officials. Certainly they probably would have been much happier...