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TSA FOULS UP FOLLOW-UP

Cat.: Transportation Security Administration, Once in a Lifetime
14. August 2008
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If you get bad marks, you're supposed to think about how to do better next time, right?  That's the gist of criticisms of the Transportation Security Administration coming out of Congress, as ...

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TSA: YOU POSE A SECURITY THREAT

Cat.: Transportation Security Administration, Once in a Lifetime, Homeland Security
13. May 2008
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This fall the Transportation Security Administration’s Transportation Worker Identity Credential, or TWIC cards kick in. These employment cards are supposed to ensure that non-citizens working in the U.S. aren’t terrorists.

But TSA, which is part of the Dept. of Homeland Security, has sent out rejection letters to ...

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NO, PUT ME ON A DIFFERENT LIST

Cat.: Transportation Security Administration, Once in a Lifetime
28. April 2008
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Upset that your name is on the Dept of Homeland Security’s terror watch list despite not being a terrorist or linked to terrorist groups? Well, DHS’s Transportation Security Administration hears your frustration 

USA Today’s Thomas Frank and Mimi Hall report that innocent airline passengers whose ...

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TSA TO X-RAY CARGO, OR AT LEAST THAT’S THE PLAN

Cat.: Transportation Security Administration, Counterterrorism, Once in a Lifetime, Dept. of Homeland Security
10. April 2008
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The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration has announced that by 2010 they will screen all cargo on passenger planes. This means freight packages, often shipped by manufacturers, which are stored beneath a plane’s passenger cabins.

But USA Today’s Thomas Frank reports that the ...

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YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS READY FOR DEPARTURE

Cat.: Transportation Security Administration, Data Security, Once in a Lifetime, Federal Agencies, Dept. of Homeland Security
14. January 2008
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Trying to solve one problem, the Transportation Security Administration may have created another, as Del Quentin Wilber writes in the Washington Post.  The TSA created a web site to help passengers whose names had been mistakenly placed on a "watch list," exposing them to interrogations and missed flights as their ...

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FLYING IN THE FACE OF REALITY

Cat.: Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Security Administration, Counterterrorism, Dept. of Transportation, Federal Agencies, Once in a Lifetime, Dept. of Homeland Security
18. October 2007
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Screeners at three leading U.S. airports -- LAX, SFO, and ORD (O'Hare) -- are missing 20% to 75% of homemade bombs and bomb parts that TSA undercover agents attempt to bring through security inspection points.  TSA private contractors achieved the best results, but a 20% failure rate is . . . about 20% too much in this particular line of work.

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Part of the Solution: a Fluid Understanding of What’s Required

Cat.: Transportation Security Administration, Part of the Solution, The Forum, Federal Agencies, Dept. of Homeland Security
19. September 2007
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Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Security Administration, is featured in a New York Times article by Joe Sharkey (available here) that shows the unique combination of knowledge, experience, and patience it takes to improve security in places nobody likes anymore:  America's airports.

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