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• How About a Metal Detector That Could Look Into The Future?

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 143
  Spencer S. Hsu and Robert O’Harrow provide an uncharacteristically confident intro paragraph for a Washington Post story in their piece about airport security: Aviation security could be improved with the use of databases containing passengers’ personal information, technology such as body scans and better ...
  5 hours ago

• TSA Looks to Expand Use of Full-Body Scanners at U.S. Airports

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 139
  The Transportation Security Administration is looking to increase the number of full-body scanners at U.S. airports over the next few years as it reviews security procedures in the wake of the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight last week. Experts say a full-body scanner likely would have detected the ...
  15 hours ago

• The Brilliance of Jim DeMint

  
  Corrente — Authority: 638
  I apologize for bloghogging - two in one day! - but Im going out of town for a couple of days, so there! I just love Jim DeMint, in the way you love it when your head stops banging against a wall. The heroic Senator of the Fuck You, America Party has been holding up the appointment hearings of one Erroll ...
  17 hours ago

• Union Baggage Claims (Flight 253 becomes an excuse to organize airport screeners.)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Flight 253 becomes an excuse to organize airport screeners. The notion that unionized airport baggage screeners in Detroit could have prevented Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding a plane in Amsterdam or Lagos doesnt make much sense. But sure enough, some in Congress are using the thwarted Christmas Day terrorist ...
  19 hours ago

• Obama calls airline security breach totally unacceptable’ – Kansas City Star

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 174
  Seattle Times Obama calls airline security breach totally unacceptable Kansas City Star President Barack Obama on Tuesday acknowledged "deficiencies" and a "systemic failure" in the nations national security and anti-terror system. He said US intelligence officials were warned weeks ago about the ...
  21 hours ago

• “Fire the TSA”: Gizmodo kinda says what needed to be said

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 456
  There is no other way to interpret it: The TSA is saying clearly that they can’t prevent terrorists from getting explosives on airplanes, but by god, they’ll make sure those planes explode only when the TSA says it’s okay. Gizmodo writer Joel Johnson • Regarding the Transportation & Security ...
  21 hours ago

• Privacy Versus Security

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  With the threat of terrorism back in the headlines , so is the question of privacy versus security: A suspected terrorist’s attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner may override privacy concerns and intensify a push for full-body scanning equipment at airports as the U.S. plans to buy more of the machines. ...
  21 hours ago

• TSA Looks to Expand Use of Full-Body Scanners at U.S. Airports

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 132
  The Transportation Security Administration is looking to increase the number of full-body scanners at U.S. airports over the next few years as it reviews security procedures in the wake of the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight last week. Experts say a full-body scanner likely would have detected the ...
  21 hours ago

• Detroit Case Revives Privacy Debate Over Full-Body Scanning

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  A passenger being screened by a full-body imaging machine in Salt Lake City on Monday.
  21 hours ago

• Pete Hoekstra: Money First, National Security Second

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 134
  Let’s say you’re a United States Representative. You sit on the House Intelligence Committee and are running for Governor of your state in 2010.On Christmas Day, an attempted terrorist attack aboard an airplane is thwarted. What’s the first thing you do?Do you call for an investigation into what security ...
  22 hours ago

• More lies from the left and the MSM. Republicans actually voted to increase funding for screening.

  
  Reality Hammer - For People Who Can Handle The Truth — Authority: 131
  Caught with their pants down by the attempted bombing of a plane bound for Detroit, the left and their allies in the MSM have resorted to the Big Lie defense. The lie: that Republicans voted "against funding for security screening" that "could have stopped the terrorist". There are several problems with this ...
  1 day ago

• "Confusing rules" out there? Thats the point, folks.

  
  AIRLINE BIZ — Authority: 575
  I agree with travelers in that inconsistently applied screening techniques, varying levels of application of in-flight rules about what you can and cannot do during flights and all that does increase -- however incrementally -- a hassle factor of flying. Theres a reason to this system: Its designed to prevent ...
  1 day ago

• New scans of fliers can see through clothing

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Coming soon to airports near you, possibly including Orlando International Airport: new security equipment that would spot bags of plastic explosives carried by a passenger -- because it enables airport security officers to see through clothing. Forty such devices – which allow Transportation Security Administration ...
  1 day ago

• Why Aren’t the Dems Fighting Back Harder Against DeMint’s TSA Hold?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 745
  For all of the frenzy over DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comment that “the system worked” after the failed bombing on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, not many people have pointed out that “the system” is currently without a permanent Transportation Security Administration administrator. As Spencer noted ...
  1 day ago

• Prerogative of Lone Senator Grounds Airport Security

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 143
  Via the Washington Post , McClatchy’s Margaret Talev reports : An alleged attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration — if there were one. Instead, the post remains vacant because ...
  1 day ago

• Thompson Calls On DeMint to Lift TSA Chief Hold

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  How long will Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) go after the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 incident before allowing the Transportation Security Administration to have someone running the place? Chris Good at The Atlantic has a statement from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the House homeland security committee, ...
  1 day ago

• Assigning Blame

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  In the aftermath of the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas day, weve learned a number of things: that Republicans, while burnishing their Party of No creds, voted against funding the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), that two of the al Qaeda leaders allegedly behind the plot were ...
  1 day ago

• What if they were better at detonators?

  
  AIRLINE BIZ — Authority: 575
  Im not trying to be flip here - Im throwing out a hypothetical. What if convicted shoe bomber (attempted shoe bomber - it didnt go off) Richard Reid and the guy (the suspect remains the suspect) in the Delta plane on Christmas had succeeded in setting off their explosives? At a minimum, wed have had large holes in ...
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• Lawmakers Spar Over Nominee for TSA Chief in Wake of Terror Attempt

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 165
  The attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound flight has re-ignited debate in the Senate over President Obamas nominee for chief of the Transportation Security Administration, which has been without a permanent leader since Obama took office. 
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• U.S. Struggles Anew to Ensure Safety as Gaps Are Revealed

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 170
  The Department of Homeland Security is struggling to strengthen an aviation security system it has spent $40 billion rebuilding since 2001.
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