The 9/11 Tenth Anniversary report is out discussing and rating the status of the progress made in implementing the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations. Ned Levi has reviewed the report in depth, and reports on it and whether or not progress has been made on issues affecting travelers.
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This weekend we take a closer look at the planned Russian space hotel and their new shuttle that will replace the one we are abandoning, a proposal for a new DHS citizen database and Newark Airport delays.
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TSA continues to tell the American people how well they are doing a difficult job, and how safe their full body scanners are. Ned Levi examines their claims of how well they’re performing their mission, and reports that their AIT scanners aren’t as safe as TSA claims.
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Last week, the Department of Homeland Security instituted a new security alert system. No longer will we hear the disembodied announcer intoning, “Today’s security alert level is orange.” Has anyone noticed?
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I’ve had enough. Someone has to put some controls on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We are facing a runaway bureaucratic train. More and more money has been poured into this bureaucracy and it is not being spent wisely.
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There is more to our security than only operations at airports. It is going on every day in thousands of police stations, on the beat and during patrols through city streets. This video is a first look at the security industrial complex that has grown in the name of protecting us.
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At first, I wasn’t much of a fan of the whole-body scanners. I thought that we Americans should be allowed more dignity than to be stripped naked when we planned to board a plane. The whole-body scanners to me were an expensive strip-search solution that created as many problems as it solved. But over time, I have realized that there are many pluses to these contraptions.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is having some problems with its air marshal program. It seems that office politics has resulted in allegations of illegal discrimination, retaliation and mismanagement within the agency and airlines are pushing back against having to always provide first-class seats to marshals.
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After a bogus, apparently airline-financed study claimed that the new tarmac-delay rules were causing airlines to cancel an extraordinary number of flights, a dispassionate study of delays shows that cancellations showed a small gain, mostly due to weather and the volcanic ash problems.
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Surprise! Despite assurances of the the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) whole body scanners (euphemistically referred to as “advanced imaging devices by these organizations) evidently can store images of scanned passengers.
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