TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports

By Michael Grabell, ProPublica Oct 20, 2012 The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TSA Firings

Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, The News-Press, Ft Myers, FL Jun 9, 2012 Dig deeper

Forget Fear of Flying, Fear Airport Screening

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Mar 29, 2012 Just getting to your airplane these days may present a greater risk to your health than the actual flight. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Suleiman’s Travels

Susan Zakin / Truthdig Sep 28, 2011 A flight attendant’s voice had come over the loudspeaker, asking my husband and another guy with a common Muslim name to get off the Delta flight scheduled to depart from JFK It is the 10th anniversary of 9/11A voice had come over the loudspeaker asking my husband to get off the Delta flight scheduled to depart from JFK. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Former Miss USA Alleges TSA Abuse

Staff / Truthdig Apr 27, 2011 Two and a half weeks after an airport pat-down of a 6-year-old ended up on YouTube and in the mainstream media, the Transportation Security Administration is in the middle of another controversy. In a new video on YouTube and other websites, a tearful former Miss USA charges she was sexually violated during a TSA search. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Closing Al-Jazeera in Cairo

Staff / Truthdig Jan 31, 2011 Al-Jazeera's Cairo bureau is shut down during Egypt protests, Jesse Ventura sues the TSA, and the productive use of video games in the U.S. military. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Indian Diplomat’s Turban + Airport Security = International Incident

Staff / Truthdig Dec 14, 2010 As India’s top UN diplomat, Hardeep Puri is not supposed to have a hard time getting through the airport, but a trip through Houston found the Sikh in a polite showdown with security officials who wanted to search his turban Puri is the third (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Orders Diplomats to Stop Telling Truth

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Dec 6, 2010 In the first major policy fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures, the State Department has ordered all U.S. diplomats to "cease and desist telling the truth until further notice." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Where Is Obama Going?

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Dec 2, 2010 Is President Obama's strategy of offering pre-emptive concessions destined to make enemies of his potential friends in the electorate without winning over any of his adversaries? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Much Ado About Touching

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2010 It’s D-Day for pat-down protests and so far it looks like most people just want to get where they’re going AP reports that waits at major airports Wednesday morning were surprisingly short -- the TSA estimates 20 minutes or less . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pat-Downs Hit Middle America Where It Counts

David Coleman / Truthdig Nov 25, 2010 What has emerged from the TSA pat-down kerfuffle is recognition that it is psychologically demeaning to be subjected to physical touching of private areas of the body by someone not invited to do so. Now, the psychological treatment of men of color is being brought home to middle American men.The recent outrage expressed by white males and females over intrusive airport pat-downs may have an upside. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

A Childish Tantrum Over TSA Rules

Ruth Marcus / Truthdig Nov 24, 2010 Some of the loudest howls of outrage over the new airport security rules emanate from those who would be quickest to blame the Obama administration for not doing enough to protect us if a bomber did slip through. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )