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Doing the airport security checkpoint dance
Crime and Safety - Sun-Sentinel??Yesterday's story about??an investigation into the theft of a traveler's $6,500 Rolex watch??at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport prompted readers to send along their tips, via??Facebook,??for protecting personal property as it travels??...Tags: Theft, Miami International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
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Palm Beach County congressman joins critics of TSA body scans
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsU.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, on Friday joined the critics of the Transportation Security Administration's policies on body pat downs and full body scans at airports. ???Passengers are angry, and they should be. Full-body pat-downs and explicit...Tags: Tequesta
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TSA leadership vacuum: Case of politics
The Swampby Mark Silva Think of it as FEMA in the middle of hurricane season without a FEMA director: the Transportation Safety Administration in high terrorism season without a TSA director. The man whom President Barack Obama has tapped to run......Tags: Government, National Government, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Travel
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TSA: Questions of screening and memory
The Swampby Mark Silva The blocked nominee for chief of the Transportation Security Administration may face more than controversy over the unionization of the nation's airport screeners - he now finds himself explaining his own only recently refreshed memory of...Tags: The Washington Post, Susan Collins, Defense, National Security, White House
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TSA nominee withdraws: 'Politics'
The Swampby Mark Silva Erroll Southers, the Los Angeles airport official whose nomination to lead the Transportation Security Administration was blocked by Republican opposition in Washington, has withdrawn his name from consideration. Southers, in a statement...Tags: Republican Party, White House, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, FBI
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TSA chief nominated, retired general
The Swampby Christi Parsons A former Army intelligence officer is President Barack Obama's choice to head the Transportation Security Administration, an administration official said today. The appointment of retired Gen. Robert Harding is expected later today,...Tags: Barack Obama, Los Angeles International Airport, Colleges and Universities, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces
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Knives on a plane?
Once in a while, a government agency adopts a policy that is logical, hardheaded, based on experience and unswayed by cheap sentiment. This may be surprising enough to make you reconsider your view of bureaucrats. But not to worry: It usually doesn't...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Wall Street Journal, Edward J Markey, Terrorism
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Railroad police on high alert as Sept. 11 anniversary approaches
Railroad police are on high alert for suicide bombers at Union Station in Chicago as the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks approaches this week, authorities said.
Based on intelligence that al-Qaida might attempt to strike again in the U.S.,...Tags: Metra, Chicago Transit Authority, Emergency Incidents, Guerrilla Activity, Unions
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Why the no-fly list doesn't fly
Flying commercial can be a terrible hassle these days, but not for Steven Washburn. The people in charge of airport security have decided to spare him all the inconveniences. No taking off his shoes and belt, no putting his liquids in a plastic bag, no...
Tags: Security Measures, American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Al-Qaeda, Mitt Romney
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The case against turning schools into forts
The shootings in Connecticut have the potential to do to schools what 9-11 did to airports. Armed guards and metal detectors. Will my kindergartner be sent through a child-sized backscatter next year in search of contraband under her clothes? Will her...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Teachers, Teresa Jacobs, Wayne LaPierre
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Don't risk TSA hassle for 'packing' catnip
My Pet WorldQ: We'll be traveling to the Miami area by plane to see relatives for Thanksgiving. My daughters are both cat crazy, so we bought some really potent catnip at a local cat show and would like to take it to them. We've been storing it in the freezer. What...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Disease Prevention, Kidney Infection, Cat (animal), Steve Dale
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Needles found in sandwiches, Delta says; FBI to investigate
The FBI says it has launched an investigation into the discovery of sewing needles in four turkey sandwiches on separate Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States. The objects were discovered in food on planes as they were en route...
Tags: Amsterdam (Netherlands), Police Investigations, Delta Air Lines, FBI, Sandwiches
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