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Seattle restaurant puts TSA workers on no-eat list
A restaurant near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is so tired of the way the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been treating their customers that they’ve actually banned agents from eating at the establishment. KC McLawson, a worker at the restaurant, told journalist Christopher Elliott exactly how far her boss had taken…
TSA agents admit to stealing $160,000 from bags at JFK Airport
Law enforcement authorities said Wednesday that two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers had been arrested for stealing from bags at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown identified agents Davon Webb, 30 and Persad Coumar, 44, as the suspects. Coumar had been an agent since…
TSA makes ‘nominal’ payment to settle suit over exposing 24-year-old’s breasts
A woman who had her breasts exposed during an airport search by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was to receive a “nominal” payment as a part of a settlement agreement, according to documents released this week. The 24-year-old woman was selected for “extended search procedures” prior to boarding a plane…
GOP lawmaker says naked body scanners violate Fourth Amendment
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is violating the Fourth Amendment by forcing travelers to submit to scans that produce images of the naked body, according to one Republican congressman from Texas. Speaking on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Ted Poe blasted former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff for his links…
Officials defend airport body scans as poll shows overwhelming majority in favor
On the heels of outrage over enhanced screening procedures being implemented at airports nation-wide, a series of public officials, elected and not, have stepped up to defend the x-ray devices that can produce images of people in the nude. Their praise of the new technology comes amid a flurry of…
Flashback: Feds saved over 35,000 nude scans from just one Florida courthouse
In light of flaring controversy over the Transportation Security Administration’s enhanced pat-downs and nude body scan imaging systems, officials have continued to stress that detailed photographs of passengers’ anatomy are not saved and do not get passed around. But, that’s not true in all cases. An attorney for the US…
TSA sees sanitary napkins in naked body scans
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now admits that airport scanners that can see through clothes to create images of the naked body can also detect sanitary napkins. New York Times reporter Joe Sharkey wrote that he was getting a lot of question from women who travel in a little noticed…
Blog calls for men to wear kilts, sans underpants, to protest TSA screenings
You want to feel up my junk, mister air security worker? Let me help you with that. That’s the basic idea behind a clever twist to the “National Opt-Out Day” campaign, which seeks to backlog the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with as many forced frisks as possible on Nov. 24.…
Watch: ‘If you touch my junk, I’m gonna have you arrested,’ man tells TSA agent after refusing body scanner
TSA threatens man with lawsuit, $10,000 fine after refusing pat down A man trying to board a plane at San Diego International Airport refused the airport’s “backscatter” machine (which takes a snapshot of items beneath a passenger’s clothes) got into an altercation with a Transportation Security Administration agent after telling…
Naked body scanners may be dangerous: scientists
WASHINGTON — US scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners that are being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe. “They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays,” Dr Michael…
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