What happens when you refuse to pose for TSA or be sexually molested to fly.

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OK, it's Faux News, but...

The only bad thing on our trip was [the] TSA at the Savannah train station. There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building and coralling everyone in a roped area after you got off the train. This made no sense! Poor family in front of us! 9-year old getting patted down and wanded. They groped our people too and were very unprofessional. I am all about security, but when have you ever been harassed and felt up getting off a plane? Shouldn't they be doing that getting on? And they wonder why so many people are mad at them.

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This past week I flew from Orlando to Dallas and back again. Thankfully, going through security was uneventful. No wait, walked straight through the metal detector with my sunglasses on (while someone else was getting body scanned)....the TSA agent greeted me and smiled (no wand or pat down)...picked up my belongings and went to the gate. Definitely the easiest it has ever been for me.
 
This is pure gold...

A passenger managed to waltz past JFK's ramped-up security gantlet with three boxcutters in his carry-on luggage -- easily boarding an international flight while carrying the weapon of choice of the 9/11 hijackers, sources told The Post yesterday.

The stunning breach grounded the flight for three hours Saturday night and drew fury from Port Authority cops, who accused the Transportation Security Administration of being asleep on the job.

"In case anyone has forgotten, the TSA was created because of a couple boxcutter incidents," said one PAPD source, referring to the weapons used by al Qaeda operatives to commandeer the jets they later slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11.

The two TSA agents and supervisor who completely missed the blades at a security checkpoint "will all be disciplined and undergo remedial training," said spokeswoman Ann Davis.

The incident happened at around 10 p.m. Saturday as factory worker Eusebio D. Peraltalajara, 45, of Jersey City waltzed past the screeners on his way to a Dominican Republic-bound flight, the sources said.

Agent Ahmir Wilkerson, supervisor Anthony DeJesus and at least one other screener allowed his carry-on luggage -- with the boxcutters with razor blades -- to pass through the X-ray machine, police sources said.

Once aboard Santiago-bound Flight 837, flight attendant Fausto Penaloda, 40, asked him to stow his luggage in the overhead storage bin.

As Peraltalajara's shoved it into the compartment, Penaloda saw the boxcutters fall out of the bag, according to a police report.

He grabbed the boxcutters and alerted the captain and first officer.

They called JetBlue security, which raised the alarm to PAPD Emergency Service Units, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI, sparking an evacuation of the plane's 136 passengers and five crew members.

The PAPD's Canine Unit swept the plane for bombs and all of the passengers had to be rescreened.

Peraltalajara told authorities that he used the boxcutters for work at a Secaucus manufacturing plant and simply forgot that they were in his luggage. He was not charged with any crime.

The TSA spokeswoman Davis insisted that the traveling public was not at risk.

"There have been a number of additional security layers that have been implemented on aircraft that would prevent someone from causing harm with boxcutters," she insisted.

"They include the possible presence of armed federal air marshals, hardened cockpit doors, flight crews trained in self-defense and a more vigilant traveling public who have demonstrated a willingness to intervene."

So, let's recap...

2001: Terrorists cause horrible tragedy using box cutters.

Later 2001: Government responds by effectively creating police state at the nation's airports. Never mind the constitution and all that.

2011: Ten years and several state-sponsored sexual assaults later, we can officially conclude (what we all already knew) that IT DOESN'T WORK
 
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To be honest, that doesn't surprise me. While airport security may have led to increased on-board safety, the TSA was created to produce nothing but the illusion of safety. It's there so people think "Oh hell yeah, the government is really doing a lot to fight these terrorists!"

disclaimer: The above was a statement of opinion.
 
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/11...lers-at-Buffalo-Niagara-International-Airport

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WGRZ) -- A Transportation Security Administration employee who worked at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport has been arrested and charged with helping drug dealers get money through security at the airport.

Federal agencies including the FBI, DEA and ICE have been watching activity at the BNIA for almost 2 years building a case against 30-year-old Derek Frank of Amherst. In the midst of their investigation, authorities spotted at TSA employee allowing Frank to bypass security at the airport and in some cases, escorting him to departure gates to ensure he was searched in a secondary security measure.

The FBI and DEA arrested Frank and 43-year-old Minnetta Walker Tuesday morning at the BNIA. Walker has been a TSA employee for 9 years and was known as a behavioral specialist. United States District Attorney William Hochul says her role was to seek out people attempting to skirt security and get suspicious items or packages onto planes. Frank was arrested Tuesday morning as well, as he exited a flight from Phoenix.

Investigators say Frank would pack a duffel bag with an upwards of $30,000.00 inside then make contact with Walker so she would know to get him, or some of his operatives, through security. Frank would then take the money to Phoenix to buy marijuana. Once in Phoenix, Frank would seperate the pounds of marijuana into boxes and ship them back to Buffalo via the United States Postal Service. Frank used multiple addresses within the city of Buffalo as mail points for the marijuana. He would pay the people at the addresses $50.00 or $100.00 for signing for the packages.

As for the airport movement, a source tells 2 On Your Side investigators have watched money being moved at least two or three times in the past three months alone.

At the time this web story was written, the local contact for the TSA has not returned our calls. Doug Hartmayer with the NFTA referred all calls about this story to the TSA.

That's some fine security work there, Lou.
 
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Another one to add to the corruption related to the Drug War. But it really took the 2 years to build the case? What the fuck were they doing?
 
I can't remember if this was posted in here or not.


This is not a repeat from August, 2010.

Maybe this is why: http://www.tsa.gov/press/speeches/hawley12-12-05.shtm


Kip Hawley, Assistant Secretary of the Transportation Security Administration. Before the US Senate.
It is also a fact that there are thousands of items that do not appear on our prohibited items list that can also be used as a weapon by someone intent on causing injury; pens, pencils, belts, credit cards, soda cans, bare hands and many more.
 
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Just yesterday, we were reminded of the sad fact that attackers will simply carry out their attacks outside the areas "secured" by the TSA and their like:

Two shot dead at Frankfurt Airport

Two people have died after a gunman opened fire on a bus full of American soldiers at Frankfurt Airport, police say.

The driver of the bus and a US soldier were reportedly killed, while two others were seriously injured.

The BBC's Stephen Evans in Berlin says that after the shooting the gunman fled into the terminal building, where he was arrested by German police.
 
And mouthpieces... can't risk someone hijacking a plane with his teeth

Or making negative comments about the noble TSA agents who are here For Your Protection?.
 
TSA Considering Major Airport Security Shakeup

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is considering a significant shift in the way airport security is handled, moving towards a more "intelligence-driven system," that would focus on "higher-risk passengers," the head of the agency said today.

Under the plan, all air passengers would not be treated as potential terrorists.

"If we want to continue to ensure the secure freedom of movement for people and commerce across this great nation and around the world, there are solutions that go beyond the one-size-fits-all system," TSA Administrator John S. Pistole said in a speech at the American Bar Association's (ABA) 6th Annual Homeland Security Law Institute in Washington.

"Everyone is familiar with the current system in place that screens nearly everyone the same way," Pistole said. "My vision is to accelerate TSA's evolution into a truly risk-based, intelligence-driven organization in every way."

The TSA team "is making good progress," in developing new airport security methods, Pistole said.

He said more than 628 million passengers are screened at airport in the U.S. each year and noted "the vast majority of the 628 million present little-to-no risk of committing an act of terrorism."

Well, he almost made a good point. Little-to-no? That's just insulting.

"We want to focus our limited resources on higher-risk passengers, while speeding and enhancing the passenger experience at the airport," Pistole said.

He did not give say how the new approach might play out at airports, but said he would announce more details later this year.

One idea the agency has explored is having passengers provide additional information about themselves in advance of flights so the TSA can do a risk assessment, and more quickly move those passengers deemed lower risk through airport screening.

Some passengers might even be able to skip taking off their shoes and having to take their laptops out of their carry-on bags.

Under this type of plan, the information collected would be more extensive than the TSA's current Secure Flight Program which requires air passengers to submit their full name, date of birth and gender before they are issued a ticket, so the TSA can check names against its No-Fly List.

Sigh...

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Right idea, wrong method.

How stupid and arrogant does one have to be to know that there's an existing system that has been proven to work more than once (ie.: Israeli airport security), and then completely ignore it for the sake your collective ego?

In December, a trade group for the world's airlines unveiled a futuristic checkpoint tunnels proposal that would similarly focus on finding "bad people, not just bad objects." The International Air Transport Association said the high-tech system, which it hopes to test by 2013, would be used to speed passengers not deemed high risk through airport security checkpoints.

Pistole admitted the current TSA security screening system is "not perfect."
And that's as close to an admittance of "we're wrong" as you'll ever get from them.

"We can all testify to the inconvenience we sometimes experience because of such a comprehensive system," he said. "But the other thing we can say with absolute confidence is that this system has effectively secured aviation in this nation since 9/11."

Umm... did he miss the memo?
 
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How the hell can Pistole say that TSA has secured flights with a straight face. There are pages and pages of examples of people carrying stuff through security ranging from a set of foot-long razor blades, to box cutters, even loaded full-frame pistols. All of which were accidentally carried through security. Their own tests show them to be utter failures.

Is he really enacting the Comet Defense??
 
http://consumerist.com/2011/03/could-backscatter-scanners-be-coming-to-city-streets.html

(Scans of the documents are available at the link above)

The TSA's rollout of full-body backscatter scanners at airports hasn't pleased too many people (other than the manufacturers of said scanners). Now a handful of newly uncovered documents show that the Dept. of Homeland Security has been considering bringing that invasive technology out of the airport and out to the public realm.

The documents (scroll down to read them), obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) demonstrate DHS' interest in exploring the use of these scanners, among other devices, to monitor everything from city streets to train stations and large events.



One project allocated to Northeastern University and Siemens would mount backscatter x-ray scanners and video cameras on roving vans, along with other cameras on buildings and utility poles, to monitor groups of pedestrians, assess what they carried, and even track their eye movements. In another program, the researchers were asked to develop a system of long range x-ray scanning to determine what metal objects an individual might have on his or her body at distances up to thirty feet.?
"This would allow them to take these technologies out of the airport and into other contexts like public streets, special events and ground transit," says an attorney with EPIC. "It's a clear violation of the fourth amendment that's very invasive, not necessarily effective, and poses all the same radiation risks as the airport scans."

She says such surveillance is tantamount to a police officer searching your bag without probable cause or consent.
A rep for the TSA tells Forbes that the agency "has not tested the advanced imaging technology that is currently used at airports in mass transit environments and does not have plans to do so."

It's scary that they are even thinking about this kind of thing. Even if it doesn't get implemented, it is certainly a telling insight into the minds of these people.
 
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