What’s wrong with the TSAs gun obsession?
Maybe the TSA hasn’t ever caught a single terrorist red-handed, but it’s given us something almost as good: guns. Lots of guns.
Maybe the TSA hasn’t ever caught a single terrorist red-handed, but it’s given us something almost as good: guns. Lots of guns.
Intrusive airport searches are just fine with a majority of air travelers. They also think the TSA has singlehandedly prevented a 9/11 repeat.
It happened again with the TSA. At a time when the federal agency assigned to protect America’s transportation systems can least afford it.
If you look enviously at the TSA Pre-Check line whenever you’re at the airport — where pre-cleared air travelers breeze through the checkpoint without having to be scanned, remove their shoes or face a humiliating “enhanced” pat-down — then join the club.
Like most infrequent air travelers, Vicki Burton just wants to get through security without causing a scene. So on a recent flight from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Miami, she obediently stepped into the airport’s full-body scanner, held her arms up, and waited for the agent to wave her through.
If you think America’s airport security systems are obsessed with secrecy, you should meet Jose Lacson.
If you don’t want to walk through a poorly tested full-body scanner you still have the right to opt out and submit to an “enhanced” pat-down.
Special Agent Robert Flaherty knocked on my front door and handed me a subpoena. Nothing to love about the TSA, but they are wrong.
The TSA as we know it is dead came from a publicist for one of the airline trade associations. Are airlines responsible?