More than 5,000 firearms were found at airport security checkpoints in the first nine months of this year, with an average of 18.3 guns intercepted daily, the TSA revealed this week. Of those, 93% were loaded.
By Diane Black Fox News If you have followed the news headlines lately, you know that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) – the bureaucracy responsible for ensuring the safety of our nation’s travelers – has seen better days. An internal investigation released in June found that the TSA had a stunning 96 percent failure rate…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was an alarming discovery: An undercover operation found that investigators could slip through airport security with weapons and phony bombs more than 95% of the time, the Washington Post reports. But that information, which quickly spread nationwide, is considered “classified,” so whoever leaked it could face termination or even jail…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Security comes at a cost. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, passengers have complained about long wait times and intrusive searches. Now the TSA is offering $15,000 for the best ideas for improving those frustrating screening lines, the Los Angeles Times reports. The challenge, said TSA spokesman Ross Feinstein, “is about leveraging…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The stats for our nation’s airport should be cause for major heartburn. USA Today reports that more than 25,000 security breaches — an average of about seven per day — have occurred at U.S. airports since November 2001. Citing newly released Department of Homeland Security documents, USA Today reported that more…
As Andrew Cochran points out, there’s so much we still don’t know about what happened on 9/11. Time for some of that transparency the Obama administration has promised. By Andrew Cochran Counterterrorism Blog Here is what we still don’t know, over seven years after the 9/11 attacks, about airline and airport security on that day:…
