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TSA complaints prompt calls for on-site advocates
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two New York politicians urged the Transportation Security Administration on Sunday to provide passenger advocates on site at airport screenings after four elderly women complained of intrusive searches by security agents in recent months. Senator Charles Schumer and State Senator Michael Gianaris told Homeland Security Director…
Cain says TSA profiling isn’t like ‘driving while black’
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain insisted Sunday that allowing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to profile airline passengers was different than “driving while black.” During a CNN debate earlier this month, Cain proposed a policy which he called “targeted identification” to find terrorists at airports, something most people call racial…
Report: TSA agent fired for hateful comments about Muslims
An ABC News affiliate in Chicago reported yesterday that a baggage screener for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been fired after authorities discovered that his Facebook page contained hateful, violent language against Muslims and elected U.S. officials. Among his comments, officer Roy Egan wrote, “Islam is a cult that…
TSA punishes employee for leaving note about woman’s vibrator
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said Wednesday that an employee had been punished after leaving a note for an American writer encouraging her to “get your freak on,” seemingly in response to discovering a vibrator in the woman’s luggage. “TSA quickly launched an investigation and identified the employee responsible,” a…
Blogger claims TSA agent found vibrator in her luggage, and left a note
A feminist blogger traveling to Dublin, Ireland recently made an unsettling discovery in her luggage: a U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent had searched the bag and found her vibrator, and apparently felt inspired enough to leave a handwritten note. “GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL,” the alleged agent wrote. It’s…
Texas Gov. Perry adds anti-TSA groping bill to special session
A bill that would restrict Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers from conducting pat-down searches at airport security checkpoints will return in the Texas legislature’s next special session thanks to Gov. Rick Perry. Perry, the latest Republican to flirt with a possible presidential run in 2012, selected the bill for the…
Surprise gesture of support may revive Texas anti-TSA bill
Legislation that would prevent Transportation Security Administration employees from giving invasive pat-downs at Texas airports looked last week to be completely dead, but a letter of support from the state’s lieutenant governor could revive the effort. It all depends on whether Gov. Rick Perry (R) has the stomach for it. The bill,…
U.S. lawmakers cut Homeland Security funding
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US House of Representatives has voted to shave more than a billion dollars from next year’s Department of Homeland Security budget as part of its deficit reduction plan. The Republican-held House voted 231 to 188 to cut the fiscal 2012 budget by $1.1 billion to $40.6…
Scientists doubt veracity of TSA body scanner safety tests
The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation from a scan is equivalent to what’s received in about two minutes of flying. The company that makes them says it’s safer than eating a banana. But some scientists with expertise in imaging and cancer say…
Texas Republican proposes criminal penalties for overly touchy TSA agents
From Republican majorities to corporate outrages, everything’s bigger in Texas. That even holds true when it comes to giving “the man” the finger, which is precisely what one conservative state representative has set about doing with a new proposal that would make airport security a much tricker business in the…
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