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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I do not like nor do I enjoy the current TSA screening procedures. But I think they are the best available option that the TSA has at present to protect the flying public.
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Christopher Elliott asks the airlines whether they will refund ticket for passengers who do not want to go through TSA’s new, invasive security procedures. The answers may surprise you.
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These jokes and one-liners are being circulated through the Internet. If you have any new ones, please add them. Better yet, make up your own.
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