TSA Ramps Up Searches at Airports
Jan 15, 2015, 11:58 pm
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TSA Ramps Up Searches at Airports
It appears that the TSA is ramping up searches at airports: http://www.kitv.com/politics/dhs-tsa...ports/30677078
Does this just mean more gate checks? Is this a temporary thing or will this continue? Are people still able to bring beverages purchased at the airport past security on planes at airports with these gate checks?
I also have an issue with the way this article seems to support the use of body scanners.
Does this just mean more gate checks? Is this a temporary thing or will this continue? Are people still able to bring beverages purchased at the airport past security on planes at airports with these gate checks?
I also have an issue with the way this article seems to support the use of body scanners.
Jan 16, 2015, 1:08 am
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Additional harassment from an agency that should be permanently shut down and its scumbag "leaders" past and present prosecuted and jailed for life.
Jan 16, 2015, 8:39 am
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According to the official, the concern to aviation security stems from the threat of non-metallic IEDs only detectable by full body scanners, a technology that is not available at smaller airports, largely due to their cost.
The ramped up TSA measures include random passenger and luggage searches at the gate once passengers have gone through security checkpoint.
The ramped up TSA measures include random passenger and luggage searches at the gate once passengers have gone through security checkpoint.
Jan 16, 2015, 9:43 am
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Jan 16, 2015, 9:49 am
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A pancake plastic explosive can't be detected by NoS; neither can something on the side of the body, per Jon Corbett. Would a pancake explosive be found by a hand search? Maybe not.
Jan 16, 2015, 9:56 am
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"Does this just mean more gate checks? Is this a temporary thing or will this continue? "
Well, you know, Islamic fanatics killed people in Paris, so what better
way to deal with it than treat more non-Muslim non-fanatic Americans like criminals at airports? This approach hasn't succeeded in catching any terrorists but what the Hell, it's good Security Theater.
Well, you know, Islamic fanatics killed people in Paris, so what better
way to deal with it than treat more non-Muslim non-fanatic Americans like criminals at airports? This approach hasn't succeeded in catching any terrorists but what the Hell, it's good Security Theater.
Jan 16, 2015, 11:11 am
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It appears that the TSA is ramping up searches at airports: http://www.kitv.com/politics/dhs-tsa...ports/30677078
Does this just mean more gate checks? Is this a temporary thing or will this continue? Are people still able to bring beverages purchased at the airport past security on planes at airports with these gate checks?
I also have an issue with the way this article seems to support the use of body scanners.
Does this just mean more gate checks? Is this a temporary thing or will this continue? Are people still able to bring beverages purchased at the airport past security on planes at airports with these gate checks?
I also have an issue with the way this article seems to support the use of body scanners.
The enhanced measures for airport security are in response to a recent article in Inspire Magazine, a publication by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which described how to make homemade bombs using household products.
Sure, because no one ever knew how to make bombs out of household products before that. You'd think TSA would have become more proficient at concocting fake reasons for more security theater by now.
Jan 16, 2015, 11:37 am
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It appears that the TSA is ramping up searches at airports: http://www.kitv.com/politics/dhs-tsa...ports/30677078
Does this just mean more gate checks? Is this a temporary thing or will this continue? Are people still able to bring beverages purchased at the airport past security on planes at airports with these gate checks?
I also have an issue with the way this article seems to support the use of body scanners.
Does this just mean more gate checks? Is this a temporary thing or will this continue? Are people still able to bring beverages purchased at the airport past security on planes at airports with these gate checks?
I also have an issue with the way this article seems to support the use of body scanners.
Mike
Jan 16, 2015, 11:43 am
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Jan 16, 2015, 12:20 pm
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Jan 16, 2015, 1:43 pm
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Get them out of there now!!!! Leave from the gate area now! Stay at the checkpoints!! Do not go to the gate anymore.
Jan 16, 2015, 3:51 pm
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TSA Ramps Up Searches at Airports
They've got to do SOMETHING or we might think they were irrelevant. They have to make their clerks believe they are on the front lines in the War on Terror, Water, Shampoo, and Drugs.
Jan 16, 2015, 4:17 pm
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Jan 18, 2015, 7:03 pm
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Well, you know, Islamic fanatics killed people in Paris, so what better
way to deal with it than treat more non-Muslim non-fanatic Americans like criminals at airports? This approach hasn't succeeded in catching any terrorists but what the Hell, it's good Security Theater.
way to deal with it than treat more non-Muslim non-fanatic Americans like criminals at airports? This approach hasn't succeeded in catching any terrorists but what the Hell, it's good Security Theater.