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  • July 2008

    • US Terror Watch List Tops 400K

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 14, 08 5:53 PM CDT

      US Terror Watch List Tops 400K

      Washington's terror suspect list has topped the 1-million milestone, Reuters reports. That adds up to 400,000 people, including duplicates, about 50,000 of whom are tagged with “no-fly” status. The American Civil Liberties Union slammed the list as poorly managed and too long to be effective. The ACLU has a convincing ally, the AP notes: a former Justice official with the same name as a terror suspect. More »

    • New Bags Let Laptop Users Fly Through Security

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 1, 08 4:10 PM CDT

      New Bags Let Laptop Users Fly Through Security

      Eagerly awaited "checkpoint friendly" luggage is at last in the pipeline, and travelers will be able to clear airport security without removing laptops from their bags by September or October, the New York Times reports. The TSA-approved bags allow security personnel to see computers on X-ray machines through either protective sleeves or fold-down sections in bigger cases. More »

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      airport security  • TSA  • luggage  • laptops

  • May 2008

    • Security Could Get A Bit Easier

      newser  |  USA Today  |  May 22, 08 5:05 PM CDT

      Security Could Get A Bit Easier

      In a few months, travelers likely will be able to take their laptops through airport security without removing them from their cases—if they buy special new cases, that is. The Transportation Security Administration will probably begin accepting new forms of carrying cases that allow unobstructed x-ray views of the laptop inside, the agency told USA Today . More »

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      air travel  • airport security  • laptop  • TSA  • luggage

    • Law & Order Star Busted for Gun at LAX

      newser  |  E! Online  |  May 12, 08 5:08 AM CDT

      Law &amp; Order Star Busted for Gun at LAX

      Former Law & Order star Dennis Farina was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday for carrying a concealed, loaded and unregistered .22 caliber handgun, reports E! Online. Farina, 64, had been planning  to fly to his hometown of Chicago. The actor, who has played cops and criminals in several movie and TV dramas, was charged with a felony and released on $35,000 bail. More »

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      TSA  • felony  • Law and Order  • LAX

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • TSA Changes Rules on Nipple Rings

      newser  |  CNN  |  Mar 29, 08 6:23 AM CDT

      TSA Changes Rules on Nipple Rings

      Airport security guards who forced a woman to remove her nipple rings with pliers were following procedures, according to the TSA—but they agree it's time for some new procedures, CNN reports. Pierced passengers pulled over for inspection will in future be told they have the option of showing the piercing to a guard instead of removing it. More »

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      privacy  • airport security  • TSA  • airport screener  • nipple rings

    • Woman Forced to Remove Nipple Rings at Airport

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 28, 08 10:04 AM CDT

      Woman Forced to Remove Nipple Rings at Airport

      A Texas woman is calling for an apology after airport security in Lubbock forced her to pull out her nipple piercings with a pair of pliers before boarding her plane, the AP reports. When her chest set off the security wand, Mandi Hamlin offered to show a female guard her unremovable piercings in private, but male guards insisted they be removed. She said she could hear them snickering as she did so. More »

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      privacy  • airport security  • TSA  • airport screener  • nipple rings

    • Pilot's Gun Accidentally Fires in Cockpit

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 25, 08 1:15 PM CDT

      Pilot's Gun Accidentally Fires in Cockpit

      A pilot’s gun went off in the cockpit of a US Airways plane just as it was landing in North Carolina this weekend, the AP reports. It was the first time a gun was discharged inside a plane since pilots were armed in the wake of 9/11. Though no one was hurt in the incident, the plane has been taken out of service. More »

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      airplane  • gun  • pilot  • TSA  • US Airways

    • Boarding Passes Are So Last Year

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 19, 08 1:38 PM CDT

      Boarding Passes Are So Last Year

      Airlines are working on transitioning their electronic check-in systems to allow passengers to use their cell phones as boarding passes. Continenal is the first to test the system, in which a scannable bar code is displayed on the phone's screen, and the passenger never has to deal with a paper boarding pass. “We definitely see this as the wave of the future,” a TSA spokesman told the New York Times . More »

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      cell phones  • airline  • TSA  • Continental Airlines  • boarding pass

  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007

    • Want to Make Your Flight? Chill Out

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Dec 18, 07 1:05 PM CST

      Want to Make Your Flight? Chill Out

      Nervous fliers, beware: Some 600 security guards at 40 US airports are scanning crowds for passengers who exhibit unusual stress or fear. The federal program aims to create “a new layer of unpredictability” at checkpoints, says the TSA administrator, but has civil rights advocates crying foul and security experts unconvinced. Still others say behavior detection is more likely to nab common criminals. More »

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      airport security  • ACLU  • TSA

    • Use Your Cell Phone as a Boarding Pass

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Dec 4, 07 2:29 PM CST

      Use Your Cell Phone as a Boarding Pass

      Passengers flying Continental out of Houston today will be able to use their cellphone or PDA in lieu of a boarding pass as part of a three-month pilot program, USA Today reports. After checking in, an encrypted barcode is sent to passengers’ mobile handsets, which is scanned by a TSA screener at boarding. A successful test could lead to national expansion. More »

  • November 2007

    • Airport Screeners Miss Bombs

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 14, 07 8:29 PM CST

      Airport Screeners Miss Bombs

      Airport screeners fared poorly in an undercover test in which government investigators smuggled liquid explosives and detonators past checkpoints, the AP reports. As a troubling bonus, the investigators learned how to make the explosives on the internet and bought the parts for less than $150, showing that would-be terrorists could cheaply and fairly easily wreak havoc in the skies, the AP says. More »

  • October 2007

    • Tests Confirm: Airport Security Isn't Working

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Oct 18, 07 11:45 AM CDT

      Tests Confirm: Airport Security Isn't Working

      You might have hoped interminable lines and indignities of shoe removal might have contributed to safer airplanes, but a study by the Transportation Security Administration shows screeners missing fake bombs at an alarming rate. USA Today obtained a copy of the classified report, whose rate of failure stunned officials: at LAX, about 75% of the dummy explosives got through security. More »

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      terrorism  • airport security  • TSA

    • Remote-Control Toys Face Airport Crackdown

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Oct 2, 07 3:06 AM CDT

      Remote-Control Toys Face Airport Crackdown

      Remote-control toys in carry-on luggage will come under intensive new scrutiny at the nation's airports, officials from the Transportation Security Administration warned yesterday. The crackdown reflects terror intelligence from a number of sources, including a video from a since-arrested Egyptian college student in Florida describing how to convert the toys into detonators for use against "infidels." More »

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      TSA

  • July 2007

    • Ice Packs Helped Prompt TSA Bulletin

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Jul 27, 07 9:46 AM CDT

      Ice Packs Helped Prompt TSA Bulletin

      This week's TSA bulletin warning of a possible attempt to penetrate security checkpoints with "peculiar items" was caused in part by an incident involving a 66-year-old woman and the ice packs she uses on her bad back. The clay-filled, tape-wrapped packages ignited hazmat suspicions, though their owner says she's been traveling with them for years, ABC News reports. More »

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      terrorism  • travel  • Osama bin Laden  • security  • airport security  • flight  • TSA

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