Toronto Sun: Skiving screeners in U.S. target foreign travellers
Sep 19, 2011, 7:32 am
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Toronto Sun: Skiving screeners in U.S. target foreign travellers
Non-US media is beginning to report on the thieves employed at TSA. Hopefully, this international coverage will put additional pressure on TSA since it could really hurt the economy. (IIRC, the US's biggest export is tourism.)
Here's a link to a Toronto Sun article by Andrew McIntosh and Kinia Adamczyk:
Toronto Sun article: Skiving screeners in U.S. target foreign travellers
(Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:03 AM EDT)
The article opens with these two sentences:
Canadians returning from holidays or business trips in the United States should be wary and watchful of airport pre-flight security screeners who work for the U.S. Transport Security Administration.
TSA security agents from New York to Hawaii have been arrested and charged with stealing passenger cash, medications and other valuables, a QMI Agency investigation found.The article goes on to compare TSA to the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) and claims TSA is doing a better job:
Here's a link to a Toronto Sun article by Andrew McIntosh and Kinia Adamczyk:
Toronto Sun article: Skiving screeners in U.S. target foreign travellers
(Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:03 AM EDT)
The article opens with these two sentences:
Canadians returning from holidays or business trips in the United States should be wary and watchful of airport pre-flight security screeners who work for the U.S. Transport Security Administration.
TSA security agents from New York to Hawaii have been arrested and charged with stealing passenger cash, medications and other valuables, a QMI Agency investigation found.
The aggressive, proactive approach that U.S. authorities took investigating a rash of serious theft allegations stands in stark contrast to the response of Canadian authorities.
The "aggressive, proactive approach" appears to refer to actions taken by the prosecutors, not to TSA.
Sep 19, 2011, 7:40 am
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Non-US media is beginning to report on the thieves employed at TSA. Hopefully, this international coverage will put additional pressure on TSA since it could really hurt the economy. (IIRC, the US's biggest export is tourism.)
Here's a link to a Toronto Sun article by Andrew McIntosh and Kinia Adamczyk:
Toronto Sun article: Skiving screeners in U.S. target foreign travellers
(Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:03 AM EDT)
The article opens with these two sentences:
Canadians returning from holidays or business trips in the United States should be wary and watchful of airport pre-flight security screeners who work for the U.S. Transport Security Administration.
TSA security agents from New York to Hawaii have been arrested and charged with stealing passenger cash, medications and other valuables, a QMI Agency investigation found.The article goes on to compare TSA to the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) and claims TSA is doing a better job:
Here's a link to a Toronto Sun article by Andrew McIntosh and Kinia Adamczyk:
Toronto Sun article: Skiving screeners in U.S. target foreign travellers
(Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:03 AM EDT)
The article opens with these two sentences:
Canadians returning from holidays or business trips in the United States should be wary and watchful of airport pre-flight security screeners who work for the U.S. Transport Security Administration.
TSA security agents from New York to Hawaii have been arrested and charged with stealing passenger cash, medications and other valuables, a QMI Agency investigation found.
The aggressive, proactive approach that U.S. authorities took investigating a rash of serious theft allegations stands in stark contrast to the response of Canadian authorities.
The "aggressive, proactive approach" appears to refer to actions taken by the prosecutors, not to TSA.
Sep 19, 2011, 11:19 am
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Non-US media is beginning to report on the thieves employed at TSA. Hopefully, this international coverage will put additional pressure on TSA since it could really hurt the economy. (IIRC, the US's biggest export is tourism.)
Here's a link to a Toronto Sun article by Andrew McIntosh and Kinia Adamczyk:
Toronto Sun article: Skiving screeners in U.S. target foreign travellers
(Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:03 AM EDT)
The article opens with these two sentences:
Canadians returning from holidays or business trips in the United States should be wary and watchful of airport pre-flight security screeners who work for the U.S. Transport Security Administration.
TSA security agents from New York to Hawaii have been arrested and charged with stealing passenger cash, medications and other valuables, a QMI Agency investigation found.The article goes on to compare TSA to the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) and claims TSA is doing a better job:
Here's a link to a Toronto Sun article by Andrew McIntosh and Kinia Adamczyk:
Toronto Sun article: Skiving screeners in U.S. target foreign travellers
(Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:03 AM EDT)
The article opens with these two sentences:
Canadians returning from holidays or business trips in the United States should be wary and watchful of airport pre-flight security screeners who work for the U.S. Transport Security Administration.
TSA security agents from New York to Hawaii have been arrested and charged with stealing passenger cash, medications and other valuables, a QMI Agency investigation found.
The aggressive, proactive approach that U.S. authorities took investigating a rash of serious theft allegations stands in stark contrast to the response of Canadian authorities.
The "aggressive, proactive approach" appears to refer to actions taken by the prosecutors, not to TSA.How much more did Quebecor Media have to do, beyond surfing FT and Google?
Did they use the words "a station exclusive" or "as only seen on this station"?
Sorry, just a media rant...
Sep 19, 2011, 6:06 pm
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The world is full of wonderful places to go where the society isn't hostile to everything outside its borders. I know that Bulgaria is quite friendly. I wish I could have the experience to report firsthand about other places. But I feel confident they exist. Only our government has spent ten years brainwashing us about how DANGEROUS the world is. The better to spend 7 trillion dollars on "safety" that they can never seem to deliver.
Sep 20, 2011, 4:14 am
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I like this. The US has long published official and highly exaggerated "travel advisories" that for South America read like horror stories and would discourage anyone to leave their home. I always wanted, in jest, to write a stylistically similar version describing US cities, airports, etc. Now it has been done for real.