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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Figures show thousands of security breaches at U.S. airports Citing information it received from the TSA, a House committee said that the nation’s airports “have suffered more than 25,000 security breaches since November 2001.” The breaches — amounting to about seven a day, or about five per year at every airport — include everything from [...]
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Segway ban in Boston not a good idea, still searching for a secondary airport site in Atlanta, pilots flies past security under new TSA rules
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Many travelers assert that TSA doesn’t have the authority to require travelers show their IDs to confirm their identity to TSA in order to be able to fly commercial airlines. Ned Levi has reviewed TSA’s ID requirements and whether or not TSA has the legal authority, explains why he believes they are nothing more than security theater, and don’t make us safer.
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Ned Levi reports first hand about the security breach which occurred Sunday at Amtrak’s Philadelphia 30th Street Station. No gate agent or security were assigned to the 5:15am Regional train to New York.
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Delta emergency landing in Florida, is your hotel on the beach? Canada eases security restrictions on tools and weapons smaller than 2.4 inches in length
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U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole today issued permission to vote on whether they want a union to collectively bargain with the agency on their behalf. The only problem (or silver lining, depending where you fall on this issue) is that about the only thing the union can vote on is whether the Christmas party will be pot luck or catered.
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Ned Levi examines TSA security in light of last week’s suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport in its arrivals hall, and suggests how TSA might best react to the bombing.
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Some days, it’s hard not to believe that that TSA’s number one mission isn’t to keep Americans safe from terrorists by discouraging them from flying.
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Ned Levi examines air travel safety and security this week, and looks at the question who is making air travel safer, TSA, or airplane passengers themselves. Among the questions asked are TSA’s regulations and methods making us safer or are they really “security theater.”
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