TSA chief John Pistole apologized to man who ended up covered in urine after botched TSA pat-down.
And it's not just travelers irked by enhanced pat-downs: TSA workers stressed as well.
We’ve all become accustomed to checking in for our flights on-line and printing out our boarding passes at home or at an airport kiosk on our way to the security checkpoint. Now the TSA is working with five airlines and 70 airports to test paperless boarding passes. Here’s how it works: When a traveler checks […]
In the spirit of Snack Saturday, here are two short videos that feature Lindt chocolate, tennis star Roger Federer and a pair of take charge TSA officers who get exactly what they want. Be sure to watch the longer, behind the scenes version as well. Here’s the “making of” version. Officers claim chocolate balls are […]
I spent much of the day yesterday writing a column for MSNBC.com about the pros and cons of airport body scanners. That column, which posts Thursday, January 14th, 2010, focuses on some of the privacy issues surrounding the “virtual strip search” aspect of these machines. I didn’t have room for in the story for the […]