By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is taking airport security up a notch. USA Today reports that airport screeners in a few weeks will begin randomly going up to people at airport security checkpoint lines or at gates and taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives….
By Daniel Rubin Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist PHILADELPHIA — Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in. Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn’t allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces? Unfortunately,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The airline bombing incident in Detroit perhaps highlighted the importance of confirming a new director for the Transportation Security Administration, the front line agency responsible for airport security and passenger screening. But things aren’t so simple here in Washington. First off, a Senator has been holding up the confirmation…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The attempted bombing aboard a Detroit bound plane on Christmas Day wasn’t the only incident that has raised red flags of late at U.S. airports. In fact, everyday the Transportation Security Administration deals with people trying to get guns past checkpoints or board planes with fraudulent travel documents. In…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Here in the nation’s capital, there’s always someone willing to play politics, no matter the consequence. In this case, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is holding up President Obama’s nomination of Erroll Southers, a former FBI agent, to head the Transportation Security Administration over a union issue, McClatchy newspapers reported….
Ellen Howe served as Assistant Administrator for Strategic Communications & Public Affairs at the Transportation Security Administration from March 2006 until January 2009. By Ellen Howe Security DeBrief Certainly the posting of the Transportation Security Administration’s screening procedures on the Internet was not the agency’s finest hour, but it was not the worst breach of…
It’s never a good thing when an agency which is part of the Department of Homeland Security — emphasis on Security — makes such a goof. Someone needs to pay closer attention. By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related…
This probably won’t be enough to block his confirmation, but it certainly doesn’t help. By Ed O’Keefe The Washington Post WASHINGTON — President Obama’s nominee to lead the nation’s airport security officers received a censure from the FBI in 1988 after asking a San Diego police officer to run a background check on his ex-wife’s…
