Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What are the most efficient and headache-inducing airport checkpoints in the nation? The USA Today sought to find out by asking frequent flyers to voluntarily rate checkpoints for efficiency. The results were subjective and varied by traveler. Some targeted Orlando, Los Angeles and Raleigh, NC, as the least efficient airport checkpoint. One…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com There’s good news for travelers: They can expedite the slow screening process at airports. The bad news: They’ll have to give up a set of their fingerprints to ensure they are the person they say they are, the Chicago Tribune reports. But the FBI said there are no privacy concerns because law…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com “Girls” star and creator Lena Dunham was detained by the TSA recently for possessing what she considered a “cute little cat” at Los Angeles International Airport, Today reports. Dunham was carrying a “self-defense key chain.” “It’s shaped like a cat — it goes over your knuckles,” she told Seth Meyers on “Late…
Wausau Daily Herald Editorial Board For years, the Transportation Security Administration has “managed” the risk of in-flight terror attacks by throwing every one of us — from geriatrics to infants in strollers — into the same category. Call it “one size fits no one.” Finally, that policy is changing. The TSA is dramatically expanding a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A recently fired TSA supervisor at Charlotte Douglas Airport is accused for the third time of stealing from travelers. WSOC TV reports that Angel Caban is under fire against after he was terminated last month following allegations that he stole gift cards and iPads from the North Carolina’s airport lost and found….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The TSA has strongly criticized a screener’s account of unethical practices, including poking fun at body-scan images, at the agency, The Los Angeles Times reports. Former TSA Agent Jason Edward Harrington wrote in Politico that TSA agents at Chicago O’Hare International Airport had low morale, targeted certain people for pat-downs and made fun…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Stanford University student became the first person to successfully challenge placement on a government’s no-fly list, Wired.com reports. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Thursday that an FBI agent “erroneously nominated” Rahinah Ibrahim to the list in 2004. The agent, Michael Kelly, “checked the wrong boxes, filling out the form…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA official won’t be charged with a crime after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her during a search at the Denver International Airport, RT.com reports. Jamelyn Steenhoek, 39, complained in December that she was subjected to a “pretty invasive search” after being stopped at an airport checkpoint. She said…
