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• Court: TSA went too far in searching luggage

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 150
  FourthAmendment.com brings us news of a court opinion that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees engaged in an unreasonable search of a passenger’s luggage and that the child pornography they uncovered should be suppressed. In United States v. McCarty , the court held: Despite the testimony ...
  6 hours ago

• Airport Rules Changed After Ron Paul’s Aide Is Detained

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 427
  An angry aide to Rep. Ron Paul, an iPhone and $4,700 in cash have forced the Transportation Security Administration to quietly issue two new rules telling its airport screeners they can only conduct searches related to airplane safety. In response, the American Civil Liberties Union is dropping its lawsuit on behalf ...
  7 hours ago

• Thanksgiving Travel Tips From The TSA: Pies OK, Gravy Not So Much

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 810
  The Transportation Security Administration, which makes the rules about how many ounces of liquid you can carry on the plane (and whose employees have a spectacular grasp of how to use new media ), has released a fantastic rundown of which Thanksgiving fixings you can carry on. Pies are OK. Cranberry sauce is ...
  1 day ago

• TSA names Kimberly Herrea Officer of the Year www.privateofficer.com

  
  PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 149
  Arlington VA Nov 19 2009 Kimberly Herrera, a transportation security officer at Albany International Airport, has been named the agency’s Employee of the Year for 2009. She accepted her award at the TSA’s Eighth Annual Honorary Awards Ceremony in Arlington, Va., this morning. Herrera, who has been with the TSA ...
  2 days ago

• Judge rules TSA went to far in porn search www.privateofficer.com

  
  PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 149
  HONOLULU HI Nov 19 2009 – A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday threw out all the evidence against a man caught with child pornography at Hilo Airport.  The judge ruled that screeners went too far in searching the man’s luggage.  In a ruling that could affect the way the Transportation Security Administration ...
  2 days ago

• Surviving holiday travel: 5 tips

  
  Ask Liz Weston — Authority: 467
  photo credit: Albert Mata You have to be a hardy soul to survive holiday travel, especially this year, when there are fewer flights, fewer airline employees and more security restrictions. The Wall Street Journal’s Middle Seat columnist Scott McCartney had an excellent story today about what to expect. Here ...
  2 days ago

• Check-In Weasels Too

  
  ThinkWeasel.com — Authority: 118
  Be nice to your TSA people. They work long hours, deal with hundreds of people and could use a break. If you don’t want to do it for that reason, do it because you don’t want something like ( Note: This is a re-run of a strip from over here so that readers are brought up to speed for next week.) ">THIS to ...
  2 days ago

• What Happens At a TSA Checkpoint When You Forget Your ID

  
  Business Travel Tips — Authority: 421
  The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) provides through its blog a helpful refresher on what happens if you show up at a TSA airport checkpoint without your ID. “Does that mean you won’t fly? Nope… You’ll still be able to fly as long as you provide us with some information that will help us ...
  2 days ago

• Its The TSA, Not CSI: Actions Limited To Security, Not Crime In...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Im actually writing this post just minutes after passing through TSA security at JFK, where I was stopped to investigate the fact that I have a candle (a gift) in my carry-on luggage. Im not sure if this sort of thing makes us any safer (I have my doubts about this kind of "security theater"), but the overall ...
  3 days ago

• Adaptability

  
  Gail Goodwin's Blog — Authority: 110
  The one thing constant about life is change. Just when we think we’ve figured out how to make life work, often we are thrown an opportunity to grow in a different direction. It’s our ability to adapt that makes the difference between a life of frustration or excitement. Nature is our best example of ...
  3 days ago

• Episode 73 – News Fit to Print

  
  Airplane Geeks Podcast — Authority: 403
  Benet Wilson, Aviation Week’s Online Managing Editor for Business Aviation , again joins Max, Rob, and David to talk about the week’s aviation news. We also discuss how aviation journalists keep current with the news (or ahead of it) and we have some tips and resources that help you stay current with aviation ...
  3 days ago

• Victory in Major TSA case

  
  mass rights blog — Authority: 123
  We’re happy to report a major victory today in the case of a respected Transportation Security Administration baggage screener who was discriminated against on religious grounds. Josue Brissot is a baggage screener at Logan airport – and despite a commendable service record, he had been passed ...
  4 days ago

• A Bulletin From The TSA

  
  BrianKaneOnline — Authority: 132
  Effective immediatley, snowglobes are hereby designated as Weapons of Mass Destruction . Anyone caught in possession of said WMDs will be detained and forcibly bathed with seized containers of shampoo and shower gel, which are also lethal in sizes larger than 3 ounces. On the other hand, you are now permitted to ...
  4 days ago

• Hong Kong: The Food, The People & The Places

  
  Gourmet Garden — Authority: 107
  It feels good to be back! We went to Hong Kong one and a half weeks ago for a short adventure to look for good eats and nice places. These are some of the many photos that we took while we were there exploring what Hong Kong has to offer. They are more to come…heee The Food Duck or Goose? Flew all the way ...
  4 days ago

• TSA To Inspect Jet Repair Shops Under New Proposal

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Thousands of airplane maintenance shops in the U.S. and abroad would get increased scrutiny to make sure they are not easy prey for terrorists looking to sabotage U.S. jets during routine repairs, a government proposal says.Some experts and lawmakers have warned for years about potential terrorist saboteurs ...
  4 days ago

• TSA: Cash is no longer a threat to security. But what is?

  
  Upgrade: Travel Better — Authority: 490
  You may recall the incident a few months ago when the TSA harassed a man for carrying $4700 in cash . When questioned, the passenger, Steve Bierfeldt, refused to acknowledge the TSA’s authority to question his transportation of any sum of cash, and offered to explain the money if the agents would name the law ...
  4 days ago

• Cell Phone-Airplain Crash

  
  Cell Phone Offers — Authority: 169
  Author: profreewill Keywords: airplane crash cell phone tsa can signal make cause an airline disaster Added: November 16, 2009
  5 days ago

• First Look: WhatsApp

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
  -: iPhone , iPod touch , First Look , App Review There’s a lot of buzz about iPhone IM clients.Other applications have gotten a lot of coverage for allowing iPhones to chat from their AOL, Google, ICQ, Jabber or a host of other screen names. Continued here: First Look: WhatsApp
  5 days ago

• Regulation of the Day 73: Snow Globes as Terrorist Threat

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 660
  Some of the TSA’s critics say the agency its own reductio ad absurdum . TSA’s latest action does nothing to improve to improve security, but much to prove its critics correct. Snow globes are now banned from carry-on luggage (hat tip: Radley Balko). This means one of two things: either grandmothers with snow ...
  5 days ago

• The morning coffee and the watery moon

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 131
  In case you missed it, America’s mission to bomb the moon was a success! Proving once again that there are few problems which cannot be solved by a good bombing, October’s moon bombings have yielded moon water. Significant moon water. Though I think any water at all would have been deemed significant, which ...
  5 days ago

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