By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration is still not scanning 100 percent of the parcels on inbound international flights, and Congress wants to know why. The website NextGov.com reports that it appears TSA will miss a deadline to scan all parcels on overseas planes for the second time, and House Democrats have sent a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The son of a former Los Angeles fire chief and a Transportation Security Administration officer find themselves in big trouble. Authorities on Monday charged Millage Peaks IV with bribing TSA officer Dianne Perez to smuggle marijuana past security at Los International Airport on nine separate trips, the Los Angeles Times reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You’d think just two weeks after the 10th Anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, people would be conscious about bringing guns to airports. You’d think. But nooo. As part of ticklethewire.com’s occasional check up on guns at airports, we found that 20 firearms were found at airport checkpoints in the U.S….
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By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Three TSA officers along with a Connecticut county cop and Florida state trooper were indicted in Connecticut Monday on charges of taking bribes to let powerful narcotics travel freely across the country, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The five were among 18 indicted in the drug conspiracy that involved the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shakeups at the Honolulu International Airport. CNN reports that the Transportation Security Administration fired 28 of its employees after a probe determined that bags were allowed on planes without being properly screened. Additionally, three people resigned or retired and 15 were suspended. All those terminated or suspended “have the right to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More bad publicity for the Transportation Security Administration. Three of its agents, along with a police officer and a state trooper were among 20 people arrested in connection with an interstate prescription drug ring that shipped oxycodone to New York and Connecticut from Florida and relayed the profits back to Florida,…
Also read AP Story: TSA Chief Optimistic About Everything But Terror By Tim Evans Indianapolis Star Anderson native John Pistole was an FBI agent performing routine audits of the agency’s local offices when the terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Counterterrorism wasn’t exactly Pistole’s area of expertise. Nonetheless, he was quickly pulled into…
