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Category Archives: TSA

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Could Congressional Compromise Lead to Increased Airfare?

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 26, 2011 Leave a Comment

Just two days after blogging about how Congressional gridlock led to reduced taxes on airfare, it seems we may be getting our comeuppance: Congress is working on a deal that could more than double security fees on airlines tickets....

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Analysis: TSA Diffuses Full Body Scanner Privacy Concerns

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 24, 2011 Leave a Comment

While I am no fan of the TSA, I will give them credit when credit is due. The announcement this week that the TSA will introduce new software on full body scanners that generates an image of a human...

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D.C. Circuit Rejects Claim that TSA Full Body Scanners Violate Fourth Amendment

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 18, 2011 2 Comments

In probing the Transportation Security Administration’s Advanced Imaging Technology program last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit squarely rejected the contention that the TSA’s use of AIT violates the Fourth Amendment. Distinguishing unlawful...

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Woman Arrested for Groping TSA Agent

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 16, 2011 4 Comments

61-year-old Yukari Mihamae apparently wasn’t pleased with the Transporation Security Administration and took it out on a TSO at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Thursday. Entering the security checkpoint, she grabbed the left breast of the female agent,...

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Women Jailed for Yelling at TSA

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 15, 2011 14 Comments

Should a woman have been arrested for yelling and swearing at a government employee? While I have no respect for the organization or those who work in it, I am not one who would ever cuss out a Transportation...

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Forced Through a Full Body Scanner!

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 3, 2011December 6, 2016 5 Comments

I had a very nice time in Kiev, until my trip back this afternoon—read also about my baggage mishap. After years of vociferously protesting full body scanners as an unreasonable and unconstitutional intrusion on privacy, I quickly caved in...

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TSA Forces 95-Year-Old to Remove Diaper

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 26, 2011 Leave a Comment

After probing this story further, some of my outrage has dissipated. Yet I am still fuming at all parties involved. A 95 year-old woman in Florida in the terminal stages of leukemia, weighing only 105lbs and bound to a...

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New Role for the TSA: High School Prom Guards

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 24, 2011 1 Comment

Coming soon to a high school near you: the Transportation Security Administration. Two girls at a New Mexico high school recently sued their school district, claiming that they were "groped" on their way into their prom earlier in the...

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Do the TSA Pokey Pokey (Video)

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 20, 2011 Leave a Comment

Another video is out poking fun at the TSA, and it is a good one. Take a look: I trust that this more light-hearted format might prod more Americans to question the Department of Homeland Security and the laughable (and frankly...

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Exclusive: TSA Admits to Storing AIT Images

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 17, 2011December 6, 2016 5 Comments

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screener has admitted that the TSA stores images obtained from full body scanners. The 23-year old screener works at Ronald Regan Washington National Airport and posted the following in the course of an online...

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College Newspaper Defends TSA…and Fails Miserably

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 16, 2011 2 Comments

In some ways, I miss college life. I earned my undergraduate degree at UCLA and relished the three years of intellectual stimulation while studying history and political science. As a political junkie, I was an avid reader of the...

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TSA Unveils Plan to Exempt Flight Crews from Full Body Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 11, 2011 1 Comment

Changes are coming to U.S airport security checkpoints: The Transportation Security Administration recently announced plans to begin testing an identity verification program to let airline crews bypass the controversial full-body scanners and extra-thorough pat-down searches at airports. The proposed program,...

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TSA Gropes Six-Year-Old: How is this Keeping us Safer?

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 9, 2011 2 Comments

Lucky says "there’s just something wrong" about the video below. I will go a step further: the video below demonstrates the harrowing yet comical state airport security has descended into in the United States of America. One event that...

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Flawed Radiation Readings Force TSA to Reevaluate Full Body Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 27, 2011 6 Comments

I have flown through Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington Dulles, and San Francisco the last couple days and been (pleasantly) surprised that each time I have come across a full body scanner, it has not been in operation. In Chicago...

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Amtrak Throws Out the TSA

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 9, 2011 2 Comments

Watch and weep: Yes, that’s the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) performing security checks at the Amtrak station in Savannah, Georgia. Never mind the fact that they were screening passengers as they got off a train. Never mind the fact...

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Texas Lawmakers Attempt to Ban TSA Full Body Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 8, 2011 7 Comments

A posse of Lone State lawmakers has a message for the TSA: Don’t mess with Texas. Republican State Representative David Simpson has introduced two bills targetting the TSA. Here are the highlights: HB 1938 …(b) An airport operator may...

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TSA Wants To Charge You for Carry-On Bags!

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 4, 2011 1 Comment

In a Capitol Hill hearing this week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano complained that extra carry-on bags brought through TSA checkpoints due to high airline checked-baggage fees are costing the agency an additional $260MN each year, forcing security...

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As it Considers a Makeover, TSA Lets Man Slip Onto Plane with Three Box Cutters

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 3, 2011 Leave a Comment

Washington, DC is my favorite city in America and other than family and friends, that is the thing (well, place) I miss most as I enter my third month in Germany. DC is a bustling city filled with great...

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See, I Told You So! TSA Full Body Scanner Fails to Detect Gun in Bra

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 23, 2011 1 Comment

Last March, the Government Accounting Office warned Congress that full body scanners have not been tested and may not be able to detect the very type of explosives material the machines were procured to detect. Few listened, as most members...

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Seattle Restaurant Bans TSA Agents

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 21, 2011 39 Comments

A restaurant near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington State has refused to serve Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees, posting a prominent sign by the door stating they are not welcome. Is this is a good thing? The story came...

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