Over the past few days rumours have begun running rampant that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has rescinded its policy allowing photography of its security operations and checkpoints … these rumours are false. The main source for the rumor that the TSA eliminated its policy is due to the agency’s website change over. Many…
One vestige of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) absurd security should be gone in a few weeks, as the agency has announced it intends to allow snow globes to travel in passenger carry on baggage again. Snow globes were banned from carry-on bags by the TSA following a failed terrorist plot in the United…
What might seem like common sense for one traveler may be an unknown topic for another. Walk through any airport at any time of day you’ll see people breezing through check in and others struggling to understand the process at the counter. Step into an airport security screening checkpoint and you’ll see some pros zip…
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an easy target for the public, pundits and “TSA Nabs Suspected Al Queda Terrorist At Chicago Airport, A toddler in a wheelchair” is an easy headline for blogs and news outlets … especially when relevant facts are left out. Yesterday a video uploaded by Matt Dubiel, of Naperville,…
Last week President Barack Obama proposed a US$317,000,000 increase in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) budget, to strengthen aviation security in the United States. While President Obama’s proposal to raise aviation taxes in the coming year to find the budget increase is likely to be defeated by both Democrats and Republicans in The House, the…
In the spring of 2004, following the commuter rail bombings in Madrid, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began devising a plan to “protect the Nation’s transportation systems and ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce,” for the railroads and mass transit systems in the United States. The result of the TSA’s efforts to increase…
Since the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) implemented its ‘enhanced pat down’ screening procedures in late 2010 the legality of the agency’s authority to execute enhanced pat downs has been consistently called into question. While the TSA has the legal authority to carry out administrative searches without probable cause, as I wrote about in November…
This month the topics of aviation security concerns are once again coming to the forefront of the news. Having recently written about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) warning of surgically implanted bombs 18 months after the threat was discovered, and Libya possessing an estimated 250 tons of non-detectable Semtex, I had the opportunity to discuss…
Earlier today the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a security memo to security officials and Transportation Security Officers (TSO) alerting them to the potential terrorist threat of humans traveling with surgically implanted explosives inside their bodies. The TSA’s primary focus is on passengers traveling to the United States from foreign countries and is…
Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport (DME), 26 miles southeast of Moscow, was torn apart by a bomb blast earlier today at 4:37pm MSK, in the international arrivals lounge. The explosion is believed to be set off by at least one suicide bomber, although police believe the blast area is potentially from more than one bomb. The…
