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So much for security: airport employees allowed to work without TSA background checks
Los Angeles airport shooting reignites calls to arm the TSA
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The killing of a TSA officer at the Los Angeles International Airport last week has reignited the debate over whether the agency’s staff should be given the ability to make arrests, as well as carry firearms.
On Friday a gunman opened fire at LAX’s Terminal 3, fatally shooting 39-year-old TSA officer Gerardo Hernandez, marking the
TSA ‘cannot justify’ cost, objectivity of screening
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The US Transportation Security Administration is unable to prove that an expensive and controversial pat-down program does not screen airline passengers based on race, according to a report by the inspector general in the Department of Homeland Security.
The Screening of Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT) program was instituted in 2004 and has long been criti
TSA detains travelers for discussing sandwich
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel work at the Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo / Jewel Samad)
Using slang at an airport could get you in trouble with the TSA: after a 29-year-old airline passenger described his lunch as “the bo
Double-amputee Marine humiliated by TSA
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It’s bad enough that a US Marine lost both his legs in combat. But after TSA agents forced the wheelchair-bound man to stand up, walk and remove his prosthetic legs at an airport in Phoenix, he was publicly humiliated for his disability.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) sent a letter to the Transportation Security Administration this week, condemning TSA officers fo
TSA apologizes after picking wheelchair-bound child for security check
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Even though she passed through a security checkpoint at Missouri’s Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, TSA agents picked a three-year-old girl in a wheelchair for additional screening. The agency is now apologizing for the incident.
Lucy Forck, who was on her way to Disney Worl
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