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TSA says it doesn't know why United thought comics were banned from checked...
People flying home from San Diego Comic-Con yesterday got a rude surprise when they spotted signs at the United check-in warning them not to put comics in their checked bags -- and most assumed it was...
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TSA remains bafflingly incompetent
The folks who make every visit to the airport intolerable are doing it without providing any results. ABC once again finds that the TSA nearly unable to stop folks from illegally carrying a handgun on...
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Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why...
The project of making planes secure from terrorist attacks is an inescapable nonsense: nonsense because there's no way to screen millions of people to prevent a few dedicated ones from bringing down a...
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Baggage handler gives zero f*cks
This baggage handler looks like she's been at her job for a long time, effortlessly tossing luggage down the slide as if they were bags of marshmallows. Hopefully, marshmallows are what's in that...
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The TSA has a secret enemies list of people who've complained about screeners
We all know that the TSA maintains a secret watchlist of suspected terrorists who are somehow suspicious enough that they can be denied the right to fly or be subjected to humiliating screenings (but...
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Quiet Skies: Air Marshals are following thousands of random Americans through...
Federal Air Marshals are furious that they have been tasked to follow thousands of Americans who are not on any watch-list and not suspected of any crime; they shadow these people (who are selected...
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TSA "Quiet Skies" surveillance program targets innocent U.S. citizens
Assigned to covertly observe and, if necessary, violently protect air travelers on flights which include passengers on a TSA terrorist watch list or on routes that are considered to have a higher...
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TSA might end security screenings at 150 U.S. airports. Experts say it's...
Documents obtained by CNN outline a plan to eliminate TSA security screenings at more than 150 small and medium sized airports that mostly service planes with 60 seats or fewer. (more…)
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TSA: the fact that our secret surveillance program hasn't caught anyone means...
Late last month, the Boston Globe published a blockbuster scoop revealing the existence of "Quiet Skies," a secret TSA program that sent Air Marshals out to shadow travelers who were not on any...
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TSA racially profiles Muslim woman, makes her show her bloody sanitary towel
Harvard grad student Zainab Merchant is detained and invasively searched every time she flies; she's tried extensively to end this harassment, applying for Global Entry and Precheck, writing to her...
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TSA + CBP test new facial recognition tech & computed tomography scanners at LAX
A new facial recognition technology screening system will soon be used on some travelers who pass through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). (more…)
View ArticleThe Transportation Safety Agency wants you to give their dogs a good home
The Transportation Safety Agency makes use of dogs to track down contraband, bombs and other stuff that we're better off never seeing onboard an airplane. It takes a pooch with a particular temperament...
View Article"Like Lord of the Flies": working at the TSA really sucks
A new report summarizing three years of investigationsfrom the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the TSA calls out the agency for its "toxic leadership culture, misconduct,...
View ArticleTravel warning: four days until Trump's shut-down costs TSA screeners their...
In four days, federal employees will suffer their first missed paycheck since Trump's border wall shutdown; it's hard to say who will be worst hit: the employees who are furloughed will never see that...
View ArticleMan with a gun in his carry-on bag slips by TSA and flies from Georgia to Tokyo
A man carrying a firearm in his carry-on luggage got past the TSA screeners at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and flew with it to Narita International Airport on January 3. This...
View ArticleTSA agents, unpaid for 30 days, are blasting explicit hip-hop in airport...
Say you work at the government agency with the lowest morale of any Fed job and then Cheeto Hitler decides to treat you like a casino contractor and not pay you, for thirty days, and recommends that...
View ArticleTrump's shutdown: LaGuardia shut, Philadelphia and Newark airports limping
LaGuardia is closed and PHL and Newark are facing major delays because there aren't enough TSA workers willing to work without pay to keep them open. I'm supposed to be flying from Burbank to Oakland...
View ArticleMore than 1,000 TSA workers still waiting for their paycheck after Trump...
UPDATE: A TSA spokesperson writes Boing Boing, To help support our employee’s during the 35 days of the lapse in funding, TSA processed partial payments to its frontline employees. Coincidentally, the...
View ArticleTSA finds military rocket-propelled grenade launcher in Florida man's luggage
Pennsylvania airport screeners find a non-functioning military rocket-propelled grenade launcher in a Florida man's luggage. From AP: The Transportation and Security Administration says the unassembled...
View ArticleTSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair...
Black women have long complained that they get flagged for secondary screening at TSA checkpoints after passing through a full-body scanner; after years of complaints, the TSA has admitted that its...
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