Category TSA

Here’s what our friends at TSA list in their Week At A Glance covering the period between January 9th and 15th, 2012: 4 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints 17 firearms found at checkpoints 0 passengers were arrested after investigation of suspicious behavior or…

Security expert Bruce Schneier on the guns and knives TSA proudly announced they found last year. Not a single terrorist on the list. Mostly forgetful, and entirely innocent, people. Note that they fail to point out that the firearms and…

According to their home page, here’s what TSA did for the period from December 26, 2011 through January 1, 2012: 1 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints 23 firearms found at checkpoints 1 passenger was arrested after investigation of suspicious behavior or…

Foxnews Joe and Susan Trento, author of the book “Unsafe at Any Altitude,” said TSA screeners simply are not finding contraband with any consistency. “If it gets to the point where they’re on the plane with explosives, the system’s already…

Oh, TSA can get all macho and jackbooted when trying to intimidate bloggers who published a memo they’d already distributed to thousands of employees (and which wasn’t secret), but when it comes to, y’know, stopping bombers from boarding, they have…