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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...
...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could not stay in constant contact with their staff in L.A. TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield, who would not comment on the unpublished report or rebuttal, says the new headquarters...
Pilots in the program, as well as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which runs it, claim it has been a big success. Except for an arrest last month of an armed pilot who allegedly arrived at work drunk, there have been no problems like inadvertent discharges or illegal use of weapons, which often occur among new officer groups. But some pilots complain that the TSA has never embraced the idea, providing little follow-up after training and denying them basic intelligence data like the weekly suspicious-incident reports. "The government wants it both ways," says one pilot. "They want...
...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...
Finally, there’s the all-American solution: a class-action lawsuit. In a nice modern-day example of Hammurabi’s Code, women who have been humiliated by being forced to take their pants off, can now retaliate by suing the pants off TSA. The New York Times reports that Norman Siegel, a prominent New York civil rights lawyer, has started looking into possibilities for a class-action lawsuit...