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What kind of man? (or woman, for that matter?) 27 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
I have posted and reposted this comment all over the place since I first saw it at Time magazine in June of 2011: Question: What kind of a man knowingly surrenders his own daughter to one of us gover...
Death by a thousand cuts 25 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
I am being tortured. Tortured not by coordinated design — tortured by an uncoordinated and independent set of procedures that, taken together and individually, can be described as nothing less than th...
TSA thugs make women drink breast milk and ruin perishable babyfood to keep up pretend security 19 Aug 2013 | 01:45 am
Travel writer Peter Greenberg is a little late the the party, but better late than never. At a recent post, he writes: Open bottles, confiscated food, toddler pat downs. The TSA can make travel so m...
Heathrow security on “high alert” – can the TSA be far behind? 17 Aug 2013 | 02:34 am
Well, since the UK is no better than the US when it comes to civil liberties, we can expect this kind of thing to be trotted out every now and again — which it is. Today’s “news” is to Be Afraid, Be ...
TSA manager Shane Hinkle charged with sexual abuse 14 Aug 2013 | 03:37 pm
And yet another TSA agent has been arrested for sexual assault. Oh, well. Just another day in the TSA! Shane Hinkle, 38 — not just a TSA agent, but a manager, no less, at Blue Grass Airport in Lexi....
Black women’s hair once again focus of clueless TSA 12 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
My Master List of TSA Crimes and Abuses is full of stories like this — and worse — where a black woman has her hair pawed by a blue-shirted goon in the name of “security.” But apparently people still ...
TSA News HuffPost Live video link 7 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
I was on the Alyona Minkovski Show on HuffPost Live last night with former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley and EPIC Administrative Law Counsel Khaliah Barnes to talk about the TSA’s VIPR teams. The show ...
TSA News on HuffPo Live again tonight 6 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
I’ll be joining a panel of other people, including former TSA head Kip Hawley and a representative of EPIC, tonight on HuffPost Live. 8 pm EST, 5 pm Pacific. This time, I promise to re-position the co...
TSA overreacts — again — to smart-aleck comment 6 Aug 2013 | 04:37 pm
In another episode in the continuing saga of The Buffoons in Blue Overreact to Every Squeak, Burp, and Fart at the Checkpoint, a man was detained by the TSA and arrested by police for being a smart-al...
Another GAO report on TSA incompetence and abuse 2 Aug 2013 | 04:24 pm
The recent GAO report on the TSA criticizes the alarming level of misconduct and mismanagement within the agency. The report spawned a series of articles citing the failure of TSA management to reprim...