OK, we’re supposed to be experts on travel issues but there are times that rules and regulations can leave even pros baffled. Is it because it’s a changing playing field? What foods you can bring into the US from overseas?
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Homeland Security
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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Ned Levi welcomes DHS’ announcement it’s dropping TSA’s draconian security screening measures for passengers flying to the US, in favor of real-time, threat-based intelligence based screening, a hallmark of the Israeli security model, but laments TSA domestically still clings to technology to scan for banned items for primary screening, instead of looking for terrorists themselves.
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At the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection hearing last week, the focus was on “An Assessment of Checkpoint Security:
Are Our Airports Keeping Passengers Safe?” We all know the foregone conclusion, “Yes, of course security is keeping us safe.” However, future developments provided a fascinating look at the evolving security systems.
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I just sat through a surreal Committee on Homeland Security hearing where the minutia of biometric tracking of legal immigrants was discussed and not a peep was uttered about our totally unsecure border with Mexico and other land-border-crossing controls were dismissed as “difficult.”
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Everyone is pretty familiar with the threat levels that were instituted after 9/11/2001. Now a committee is deciding whether they should keep it or at least modify it.
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The number of suspected terrorists in the United States has hit one million, an increase of 32 percent since 2007. Has this terrorist-tracking program gotten out of hand?
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One wouldn’t think that warnings of too much money to spend would be heard during a House Subcommittee on Aviation hearing in Washington, DC; but they were. The passing of the stimulus bill means there is a lot of money, but the U.S. and the stated don’t have the mechanisms in place, nor the controls, to efficiently spend that much.
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Ever wonder what’s in your file that the Department of Homeland Security keeps? Newsweek’s Sean O’Neill did and he ordered a copy through the Freedom of Information Act. What he found is pretty interesting.
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