Cargo Screening: So Close, Yet So Far – World Trade
Last August, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) implemented 100 percent screening for air cargo carried on passenger aircraft in the U.S. Despite some anticipated hiccups, by most accounts the rollout was generally uneventful.
A Shutdown Won’t Affect Airport, Border Security – NPR
If Congress fails to come up with a spending bill to keep the federal government operating next week, and a shutdown occurs, the TSA airport screeners will keep working. Also reporting to work will be the people who secure the nation’s borders.
TSA Testing DNA? No way! – The TSA Blog
TSA is not testing and has no plans to use any technology capable of testing DNA. An article was posted to “The Daily” today with the misleading headline “Genetic Patdown.”
Court Likely to Uphold Constitutionality of ‘Nude’ Airport Scanners – Wired Threat Level
Airline passengers in the United States understand they will be treated as suspected terrorists when going through airport security checkpoints.
Problems remain in flight school security – The Boston Globe
Several months after federal officials arrested the immigrant owner of a Stow flight school and 33 of his students for being in the United States illegally, officials have not instituted new safeguards to prevent something similar from happening again.
Budget Calls for More Airport Scanners – WSJ Washington Wire blog
Deficit hawks haven’t clipped the wings of the Department of Homeland Security. Its discretionary budget would increase 0.7% to $43.2 billion under the spending blueprint issued today by the Obama administration.
Protecting privacy at the airport – The Hill’s Congress Blog
Around the holidays last year, we saw significant public concern about personal privacy at our nation’s airports. At the time, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had expanded screening measures at security checkpoints in airports like the Albuquerque Sunport.
Risk-based security approach on TSA’s horizon – Homeland Security Newswire
Proposals to overhaul security checkpoints at airports to take into account the risk profile of each traveler is being promoted by several industry organizations to allay the frustrations of travelers.
CQ Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration head John S. Pistole continued to take heat Thursday from congressional lawmakers over his decision to stop expansion of a program that allows airports to turn to the private sector for security screening.
America is not Israel, but… – Jerusalem Post
Here’s a piece from Erroll Southers about the similarities and differences between American and Israeli approaches to aviation security.
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