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  • ** FILE ** TSA agents check passenger identification at a security gate on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

    Terror watch list grows to 875,000

    The number of names in a secret U.S. database of suspected terrorists has swollen to 875,000 from 540,000 only five years ago, in part because of rule changes introduced after al Qaeda's failed underwear bomb plot in 2009.

  • ** FILE ** Travelers wait in security checkpoint lines before boarding planes at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Feb. 25, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

    Man stopped at Reagan airport with loaded gun

    Security officers at Reagan Washington National Airport stopped a Virginia man from boarding a plane Friday after authorities discovered he was carrying a loaded gun.

  • Va. man stopped at airport with gun in carry-on

    A passenger at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was stopped and cited after an officer found a loaded gun in his carry-on bag at a checkpoint, Transportation Security Administration officials said Tuesday.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: TSA uniforms appropriate for mission

    The men and women at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) dedicate themselves every day to preventing attacks against the United States. A recent Commentary piece from Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican ("Dressing for excess at the TSA," Wednesday), failed to point out that the dollar amount for the contract recently awarded to procure uniforms for transportation security officers is simply a ceiling limit, allowing for the government to spend less money over a longer period of time. Without this contract, TSA would not be able to replace worn-out uniforms or provide uniforms for new employees.

  • ** FILE ** Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Authorities were searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night. Flights were grounded and passengers were rescreened, an air safety official said. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

    TSA says it missed bomb because it's 'hard to spot'

    Transportation Security Administration officials responded to Newark inspectors' failure to find bombs planted on security testers this way: We tried, but it's really hard.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    BLACKBURN: Dressing for excess at the TSA

    Over the past decade, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has become the poster child for everything that's wrong with big government. Since its creation, the agency has had an employment increase of nearly 400 percent, its warehouses are close to capacity with nearly $100 million in screening equipment sitting idle, and it spends more than $17,500 in training costs per new hire yet is unable to consistently conduct criminal and credit background checks on their employees.

  • ** FILE ** Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Authorities are searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night. Flights were grounded and passengers were rescreened, an air safety official said. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

    TSA fails as undercover inspector sneaks mock bomb in Newark Airport — twice

    An undercover inspector sneaked an improvised explosive device that was stuffed down his pants past two separate TSA security points, ultimately receiving clearance to board a plane.

  • **FILE** Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano briefs reporters at the White House on Feb. 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

    GOP Sen. Cornyn rips Napolitano for releasing detainees

    A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee on Friday called into question the leadership abilities of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, expressing "outrage" at what he called the department's questionable response to sequestration — including the release of detainees from detention centers across the country.

  • ** FILE ** Travelers wait in security checkpoint lines before boarding planes at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Feb. 25, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

    Ex-TSA head: Let passengers carry on machetes

    Kudos to the new Transportation Security Administration plan to let passengers carry on small knives, said the former chief of the agency. Now let them carry on machetes, he added.

  • Travelers wait in security checkpoint lines before boarding planes at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Feb. 25, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

    Janet Napolitano blames long airport lines on sequester

    Longer lines at airports are due to sequestration, said Department of Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano.

  • Travelers wander the concourses and wait in security lines at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday, four days before federal budget cuts could cause serious delays at the nation's airports. "This industry is going to be hit very hard by sequestration," Rep. Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia said Monday. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

    Airports ready for travel bumps

    Security lines to the skycap, double the wait time, fewer flights -- and that will be on a good day.

  • Transportation Security Administration officers (in blue uniforms) screen airline passengers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    TSA apologizes for detaining 3-year-old disabled girl

    The Transportation Security Administration has apologized to a Missouri family after it detained a 3-year-old disabled girl at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

  • ** FILE ** In this 2011 file photo, passenger Donna Pederson (left) of Atlanta chats with Transportation Security Administration officer Myra Watts after going through a new expedited security line at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. (Associated Press)

    TSA kept $531,395 in passenger change in 2012

    Chump change, it's not. The Transportation Security Administration has collected — and kept — more than half-a-million dollars in loose passenger change at security checkpoints in 2012 alone.

  • Kanye West, Kim Kardashian bypass security at JFK

    Authorities say Kanye West and Kim Kardashian had to be privately screened after an airline employee allowed them to bypass a security checkpoint at New York's Kennedy International Airport.

  • ** FILE ** Transportation Security Administration chief John S. Pistole. (Associated Press)

    EEOC launches probe of TSA 'hostile work environment'

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating the Transportation Security Administration for creating a "hostile work environment," according to Tuesday media reports.

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