
Airports Consider Replacing TSA with Private Screeners to Ease Lines
Airports frustrated with long security lines are considering firing TSA screeners and replacing them with private contractors.
Airports frustrated with long security lines are considering firing TSA screeners and replacing them with private contractors.
Those long airport lines are getting a short answer. The head of security for the Transportation Security Administration is out after a furor over checkpoint delays and management missteps. Fixing the time-wasting mess remains a top priority.
Amid allegations of mismanagement, Kelly Hoggan, TSA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Security Operations, has been removed from his position.
The head of the Transportation Safety Administration announced recently that the agency has a plan to deal with the long lines at many of the most important airports in America.
Homeland Security’s inspector general is investigating complaints that the TSA is illegally profiling passengers.
An Olympic gold medal swimmer who became paralyzed from the waste down said she was “humiliated” during a full-body search after her wheelchair couldn’t go through a metal detector.
Long delays at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at major airports nationwide have been causing passengers to miss flights.
A TSA employee testified before Congress Wednesday that his superiors instructed him to racially profile Somali-Americans.