Hired Gun

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TSA to Phase Out ‘Naked Scanners’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 19, 2013 The airport security agency will discontinue the use of scanners that show travelers’ naked bodies, amid widespread cries of privacy violations. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

TSA Commissions Study of X-Ray Body Scanners

By Michael Grabell, ProPublica Dec 20, 2012 After months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to explore the health effects of the agency's X-ray body scanners. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

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 )