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Nov 21, 2010, 11:01 am
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Unfortunately there is mounting evidence that the TSA employees won't be as sensitive as medical personal. Besides if a person employed in the medical profession messes up there is a way to hold them accountable. At present there is limited means to do so with a TSA agent.
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Nov 21, 2010, 11:08 am
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LA Times column: To find the needles, reduce the haystack
This op-ed is an improvement on their recent editorial, elegantly titled Shut up and be scanned. 
More than nine years into our struggle against catastrophic terrorism, we still don't know how to find the needles in the civil aviation haystack.
Aviation security has bedeviled us since 2001, in part because we have reacted to past incidents instead of planning strategically for the future. After 9/11 we banned box cutters, scissors and nail clippers; after Richard Reed we started X-raying shoes; after the 2006 London airliner plot we banned liquids over 3 ounces. And now, after a would-be bomber last Christmas hid explosives in his underwear, we are starting to peer beneath passengers' clothes with scanners.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,3755067.story
More than nine years into our struggle against catastrophic terrorism, we still don't know how to find the needles in the civil aviation haystack.
Aviation security has bedeviled us since 2001, in part because we have reacted to past incidents instead of planning strategically for the future. After 9/11 we banned box cutters, scissors and nail clippers; after Richard Reed we started X-raying shoes; after the 2006 London airliner plot we banned liquids over 3 ounces. And now, after a would-be bomber last Christmas hid explosives in his underwear, we are starting to peer beneath passengers' clothes with scanners.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,3755067.story
Nov 21, 2010, 11:09 am
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Nov 21, 2010, 11:11 am
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In the past few days, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policies have been probed almost as thoroughly as the elderly men and teenage girls subjected to one of the agency's indecent "enhanced" pat-downs. They've come up short. TSA's top man, John S. Pistole, testified Wednesday that he had no choice but to implement the security measures based on the intelligence he has on potential threats. Not that he is willing to share this information. It's all classified, of course.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...urity-charade/
Video as well as text...
The Business Travel Coalition has come out criticizing the Transportation Security Administration and groups planning a national airport security screening opt-out day, saying that it is irresponsible to promote actions that delay travelers at non-secure airport checkpoints.
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/busines...ry?id=12204725
John S. Pistole, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, said several times Sunday that no changes are planned in airport screening procedures, despite an online backlash.
“Do I understand the sensitivities of people? Yes,” Pistole said to CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union.” “If you're asking, am I going to change the policies? No.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45458.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...urity-charade/
Video as well as text...
The Business Travel Coalition has come out criticizing the Transportation Security Administration and groups planning a national airport security screening opt-out day, saying that it is irresponsible to promote actions that delay travelers at non-secure airport checkpoints.
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/busines...ry?id=12204725
John S. Pistole, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, said several times Sunday that no changes are planned in airport screening procedures, despite an online backlash.
“Do I understand the sensitivities of people? Yes,” Pistole said to CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union.” “If you're asking, am I going to change the policies? No.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45458.html
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Nov 21, 2010, 12:00 pm
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This op-ed is an improvement on their recent editorial, elegantly titled Shut up and be scanned.
Nov 21, 2010, 12:08 pm
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Nov 21, 2010, 12:17 pm
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Great article in this month's Atlantic about Security Theater:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...arried/7057/3/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...arried/7057/3/
Nov 21, 2010, 12:36 pm
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Christian Science Monitor
Obama notes travelers' plight, but won't change airport security
You can bet that before President Obama climbed aboard Air Force One for his trip home from the NATO summit in Portugal this weekend, he did not have to raise his arms in front of an X-ray scanner. Nor did a blue-gloved Transportation Security Administration officer run his hands over the presidential torso, feeling every bump and crevice from stem to stern.
That’s one of the benefits of being Commander in Chief. It’s just assumed that you’re not a security risk.
But if you’re one of the 1.6 million Americans flying commercially this Thanksgiving week, Obama does feel your pain.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/11...rport-security
You can bet that before President Obama climbed aboard Air Force One for his trip home from the NATO summit in Portugal this weekend, he did not have to raise his arms in front of an X-ray scanner. Nor did a blue-gloved Transportation Security Administration officer run his hands over the presidential torso, feeling every bump and crevice from stem to stern.
That’s one of the benefits of being Commander in Chief. It’s just assumed that you’re not a security risk.
But if you’re one of the 1.6 million Americans flying commercially this Thanksgiving week, Obama does feel your pain.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/11...rport-security
Nov 21, 2010, 1:25 pm
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From the Wall St. Journal: TSA Terrifies, Too http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...Tabs%3Darticle
Nov 21, 2010, 1:41 pm
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Whoopi doesn't mind "a squeeze"
In response to Huckabee saying he is not happy about a government employee going into people’s pants at the airport, Goldberg reminds him “no it’s not comfortable and it’s not the way I would like to live, but if it’s going to keep me from getting blown out of the sky, you can check anything you want. And if you feel something you like and squeeze it, what am I going to do?”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/whoopi-to...eeze%E2%80%9D/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/whoopi-to...eeze%E2%80%9D/
Nov 21, 2010, 2:59 pm
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From the Wall St. Journal: TSA Terrifies, Too http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...Tabs%3Darticle
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Nov 21, 2010, 3:02 pm
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This interview on the CNN website with the head of TSA seems to imply that everyone goes through the metal detector and only those who end up setting it off have to face the nude-o-scope or the grope:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/21...ex.html?hpt=C1
If that is true, that would be a major stand-down and make a huge difference, not ever using the nude-o-scope as primary screening. Of course, it's not being cited as such, so it's difficult to know.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/21...ex.html?hpt=C1
If that is true, that would be a major stand-down and make a huge difference, not ever using the nude-o-scope as primary screening. Of course, it's not being cited as such, so it's difficult to know.
Nov 21, 2010, 3:18 pm
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Nov 21, 2010, 6:05 pm
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Imagine if the TSA had gone ahead and screened John Boehner
If Boehner had gone through one of those "aggressive pat-downs" of his genital area, he could have employed the experience to educate himself about what is occurring to the people who put him in power. He could then have warned the administration that the House will be holding hearings into the TSA assaults once the Republican majority takes power in January.