Topic - Transportation Security Administration

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  TSA expands fast lanes for frequent fliers

  A select group of frequent fliers will be able to keep their shoes on and their laptops in their bags as they go through screening checkpoints at major airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said Wednesday.

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  More airports to get less-hassle screening

  A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, including all three Washington-area airports by year's end, the government said Wednesday.

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  28 more airports will test lower-hassle screening

  A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday.

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  PAUL: TSA's intrusions undermine security

  Today, while en route to Washington to speak to hundreds of thousands of people at the March for Life, I was detained by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for not agreeing to a patdown after an irregularity was found in my full body scan. Despite removing my belt, glasses, wallet and shoes, the scanner and TSA also wanted my dignity. I refused.

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  TSA admits errors in searches of elderly women in N.Y.

  Security screeners at Kennedy International Airport violated procedures this fall when they asked two elderly women to show them medical devices concealed beneath their clothing, senior Homeland Security officials acknowledged in correspondence made public this week.

• SGT. SHAFT: All 'Assured Victory' print proceeds go to wounded veterans

  Dear Sgt Shaft: How can I obtain a copy of the "Assured Victory" print? I hope they are still available.

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  EDITORIAL: Smacking down TSA

  Frequent travelers know better than anyone that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) needs serious reform. The agency spends $7.7 billion in taxpayer money every year, and it hasn't nabbed a single terrorist.

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  Passenger advocate sought for U.S. airports

  Two New York lawmakers have called for a passenger advocate at airports to immediately act on complaints by passengers over security screenings.

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  Feds use video surveillance to catch fraud for workers' comp

  The husband and wife postal workers at a North Carolina mail-sorting plant were out of work and collecting disability benefits when they first came under surveillance.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Thanks to TSA, nation now safer

  In light of the editorial regarding the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and holiday travel ("No thanks to TSA," Comment & Analysis, Nov. 28), perhaps it would be useful to share some information with your readers about TSA's work making transportation security as safe and efficient as possible using a risk-based, intelligence-driven approach.

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  EDITORIAL: No thanks to TSA

  In good news for weary travelers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced a cut back in the number of boys and girls it will grope over the holidays. The bad news is that agency bureaucrats made the same promise after last year's Turkey Day. It wasn't true then, either.

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  Security hassles top travelers' gripe list

  While security has "vastly improved" since the creation of the Transportation Security Administration a decade ago, there is still "a great deal of work to do" in improving traveler satisfaction, according to a new survey released Wednesday by a travel and tourism trade group.

• Reality star JWOWW says TSA singled her out

  Reality television star JWOWW says on her official Twitter account that she was "treated like a criminal" when airport security officers singled her out for a pat down in North Dakota.

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  GOP's Paul would bring U.S. troops home

  If Ron Paul were president, he would pull American troops out of the Middle East and bring them back home, he said Sunday, because he doesn't want to step on the toes of countries such as Pakistan.

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  EDITORIAL: TSA's power grope

  The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has always intended to expand beyond the confines of airport terminals. Its agents have been conducting more and more surprise groping sessions for women, children and the elderly in locations that have nothing to do with aviation. It's all part of TSA's Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) program, which drew additional scrutiny following an Oct. 18 blitz in Tennessee.

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