Articles tagged “tsa”

The TSA modeled its behavior detection program on Israeli security methods and, in the right hands, it's more reliable at identifying danger than X-rays and security pat-downs. In the hands of knuckle-heads, though, it's just another excuse to profile.

This week's roundup of security line blunders includes hidden razor blades, lots of inert grenades, and a slight uptick in the number of handguns flyers "forgot" to leave at home.

Frequent fliers actually have a more positive opinion of the TSA than those who don't fly suggesting that average screening procedures go smoothly for fliers despite the agency's negative publicity.

The contract’s terms, including new performance evaluations and disciplinary processes, also bans strikes, hopefully resulting in higher worker morale and job engagement without hampering the security process.

It's obvious why the TSA doesn't want to hold the hearings: The anti-TSA crowd hyperventilates merely upon mention of its initials. But the agency needs to add a layer of transparency if it ever wants to get the public back on its side.

The relationship between speed at the gate and personal privacy delivers predictability to the TSA as opposed to security, which is what they're really after.

In theory, 97% of the TSA's resources are focused on air travel, but as any insider will tell you bureaucracy and internal politics takes up the majority of the time that isn't spent dealing with public complaints about the TSA.

Despite upgrades at U.S. airports, security will also depend on what happens at airports outside the country that have long-haul flights into the U.S.

In addition to having many witty bumper stickers, John Brennan feels that getting buck naked and ruining the flights for hundreds of others is the appropriate response to being tested positive for nitrates at a TSA checkpoint.

The stripping businessman thought the TSA was going to far during the screening process, so he showed them what too far really meant. Then he made a few planeloads of travelers miss their flights.