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...people," he said. "A bomb in a subway car may kill 30 people." That brought an outcry from many city officials. But it shouldn't reassure anyone that all the security problems in the air have been solved. Take the troubled no-fly list of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA...
...from Paris to Chicago was forced to return to Paris when it was discovered that a passenger was on the no-fly list. Even though the man, who is of Middle Eastern descent, had flown out of the U.S. with no problems a month earlier, the TSA boasted of its quick action. "It's actually a success story for us," said Lauren Stover, a TSA spokeswoman. "[The flight] turned around, but it never even got close to U.S. airspace...
There was only one hitch: waiting for the man in Chicago's O'Hare airport were FBI agents who were tracking his travels as part of an investigation and wanted to interview him. The FBI had to appeal to the TSA to get the man off the list, and the next day he flew to Chicago. The investigation is still under...
...building legitimately upgraded what a former TSA official describes, in a rebuttal to the report, as the "completely inadequate" command-and-control system the agency had in its early days. The rebuttal recounts two events in Los Angeles on July 4, 2002--when a small plane crashed into a crowd of picnickers a few minutes after a man opened fire inside the airport--when TSA officials were stymied because they could not stay in constant contact with their staff in L.A. TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield, who would not comment on the unpublished report or rebuttal, says the new headquarters...
...aviation-security community was alarmed recently when the TSA put a pilot on a special watch list for having government-issued ammunition in his bag when he tried to board a plane while off duty. The pilot, who had passed rigorous background checks in order to carry a gun, was subject to being pulled aside for searches and not allowed to work as a pilot. He was taken off the list last week, given a letter of censure and allowed to return to work. Said TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield: "We have a thorough review process, and we came...