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Old Jun 22, 2010 | 8:19 am
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Wall Street Journal:

‘Please Remove Your Shoes’ Tackles History of TSA
6-21-10

By enforcing stringent “no blanket” rules and once detaining a passenger for carrying $4,700 from the sale of tickets, T-shirts and bumper stickers, the Transportation Security Administration is frequently accused of taking their airport search practices too far.

Fred Gevalt, a retired aviation publisher (”The Air Charter Guide”), decided to examine the agency’s practices in the wake of 9/11 in the coming documentary “Please Remove Your Shoes.”

Gevalt was himself flying a plane into New York the morning of 9/11 and was 20 miles out of LaGuardia airport when the tragedy took place. “Afterwards,” Gevalt said, “I started getting concerned about how the organization, like a mushroom, began to make everyone’s life miserable at the airport.”
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