By Tag "TSA" - page 2
Why doesn't Congress care about the TSA? Because they are exempt
Ever wonder why it is so difficult to convince your Senators and Representatives to support abolishing the Transportation Security Agency (TSA)? After all, they fly regularly so they must understand that the TSA harasses and humiliates American [...]
TSA Abuses, Volume 184736
Actor Verne Troyer, most famous for his role of Mini Me in the Austin Powers series, got up close and personal with the TSA at Los Angeles International Airport the other day, posting this picture on his twitter account: Can we stop [...]
Scott Garrett: Audit the Fed and Rein in TSA
One of the representatives who cosponsored Audit the Fed this week, thus helping us once again get a majority of the House on the bill, is Representative Scott Garrett (NJ-05), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government [...]
TSA to Replace Tom Cruise in Sequel to ‘Minority Report’
By: Matt McBride The Transportation Security Administration is yet again on the frontiers of privacy violations. TSA has announced a new program to search a myriad of government and private databases for information about airplane passers [...]
Sayonara, Porno-Scanners!
Bloomberg reports this morning the TSA will remove the remaining 174 porno-scanners manufactured by Rapiscan from our nation's airports. After the company failed to meet a Congressionally-mandated timeline for creating a "privacy filter," [...]
Turn on your cell phone for TSA or don't fly
Travelers on US-bound international flights will have to prove to the TSA that their cell phone has power before boarding the aircraft in the name of security. From The Guardian: Passengers using airports that offer direct flights to the US may [...]
Assume the Position
So what happened to hundreds of full-body, high detail scanners after they were yanked from airports last year? According to the Chicago Tribune: Most have been shipped to jails, prisons and state and local government agencies. The TSA [...]
Civil Liberties Hodgepodge
This week there's been a number of stories worth highlighting regarding your civil liberties. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled the administration must disclose the legal rationale behind the targeted [...]
The TSA Should Apologize
Only the TSA could make a 3-year-old utter the words: "I don't wanna go to Disney World!" In case you missed the latest TSA outrage that occurred in early February, video footage surfaced over the weekend of wheelchair-bound Lucy Forck in [...]