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Stop Whining and Get the Darn Scan
 Stop Whining and 
 Get the Darn Scan 
OPINION
Nov 17, 2010 11:16 AM CST

Stop Whining and Get the Darn Scan

It's a small price to pay for our security, the LA Times insists

(Newser) - The Los Angeles Times has a directive for you: "Shut up and be scanned," it asserts in an editorial. No, they're "not wild" about the TSA's new, more invasive methods, "but they're a necessary evil in the era of suicide bombers who board planes with chemical...

Coulter: TSA Scans 'Hitler's Last Revenge'

She recommends profiling instead

(Newser) - Following the controversial TSA pat-down of a 3-year-old girl , Ann Coulter is back—and she has her own controversy to start. Coulter, no fan of the TSA's new body scans or pat-downs, told Bill O'Reilly the heightened security procedures result from the "crazy, politically correct world we're living in...

Nov. 24: The Day to Say 'Hell No' to Body Scans

Protest could clog airports on busiest travel day

(Newser) - A group of organizers angry about full-body scans is sticking with its plan to snarl airport congestion on one of the busiest travel days of the year—the day before Thanksgiving. National Opt-Out Day encourages passengers to opt out of the scans and choose the more time-consuming pat-downs instead. The...

Gizmodo Publishes 100 Body Scans

Illicit courthouse scans revealed

(Newser) - Remember that courthouse that got in trouble for storing body scan images that were supposed to be deleted? Well, Gizmodo got its hands on 100 of those photos with a Freedom of Information Act request, and has posted them in this video. “We understand that it will be controversial...

Airport Screenings Discreet&mdash; and Crucial

 Airport 
 Screenings 
 Discreet— 
 and Crucial 
janet napolitano
Nov 15, 2010 8:49 AM CST

Airport Screenings Discreet— and Crucial

Napolitano defends new imaging techniques, urges cooperation

(Newser) - Facing pressure over airport security measures, Janet Napolitano defends scanners and pat-downs in USA Today , asking Americans “for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.” New imaging machines are “safe, efficient, and protect passenger privacy” and have helped find...

TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old
 TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old  
Nov 15, 2010 7:39 AM CST

TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old

As luck would have it, girl is daughter of TV reporter

(Newser) - Another airport security brouhaha : The TSA body-searched a 3-year-old girl at the airport in Chattanooga, Tenn., prompting screaming and tears. And perhaps embarrassingly for the TSA, the girl happened to be the daughter of a TV news reporter, who captured about 17 seconds of her ordeal on his cell phone....

Flier Who Refused Scan Threatened With $10K Fine

Libertarian says TSA tried to stop him from leaving airport

(Newser) - What happens if you refuse both a full-body scan and the alternative grabby pat-down the Transportation Safety Administration demands? One libertarian blogger trying to fly through San Diego was not only barred from boarding his flight, he was threatened with a civil suit and a $10,000 fine, Gawker reports....

Complaints on Airport Scans, Pat-Downs Get Louder

Travel industry airs concerns to Homeland Security

(Newser) - Rumblings about full-body scans and airport pat-downs are getting louder, and the travel industry is seriously worried ahead of the holiday travel season, reports CNN . So much so that Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano met with nearly two dozen industry representatives yesterday to hear their concerns. Those reps are not...

Unions to Pilots: Skip the Scan

'Our members are absolutely outraged'

(Newser) - Two of America’s biggest pilot unions are urging their members to refuse to submit to full-body scans when they go to work. They complain the machines are "intrusive" and could expose pilots to risky amounts of radiation over time. Those who refuse are subjected to pat-downs that were...

We Didn't Always Flip Out Over Terrorism

Before 9/11, we handled this better

(Newser) - Imagine this: Muslim terrorists hijack a jet and hold it hostage for two weeks. Simultaneously, a bomb blows up a 747 in midair, killing 300-plus people. Months later, a US airliner is bombed over Greece. Five months after that, terrorists kill 20 aboard a US plane in Pakistan. All of...

Passenger: I Warned Crew About 'Two-Faced' Flier

But no one paid any attention, scared traveler complains

(Newser) - A passenger warned the flight crew about a disguised "two-faced" flier who slipped on board and rattled security staffs around the world—but they shrugged off her concerns, she says. Passenger Nuray Kurtur-Balas said she immediately spotted something amiss and feared the 22-year-old, dressed as an old man, planned...

'Two-Faced' Flyer Has Security Agents Scrambling

Homeland Security chief wonders how man was able to board plane

(Newser) - The passenger who turned from an elderly white man into a young Asian man mid-flight is causing panicked authorities to scramble to update security procedures. Hong Kong authorities believe the man—who was wearing a mask sold online under the name "Jerry Attrick" and mimicked the movement of an...

Al-Qaeda Sent Parcels in Sept. 'Dry Run'

US officials studied packages, let them continue

(Newser) - Packages sent from Yemen to the US in September may have been a “dry run” for the explosives intercepted Friday, officials tell the New York Times . American officials investigated the parcels at the time and, finding no explosives, allowed them to continue to “random addresses” in Chicago. But...

British Airways Boss Slams US Security Checks

UK should stop 'kowtowing' to US demands

(Newser) - Britain should stop "kowtowing" to America's demands every time it steps up security for incoming flights, the chairman of British Airways complains. Martin Broughton told an industry conference that many of the security checks are "redundant" and that Britain should only comply with the same checks that the...

Security Scare Forces Flight Evacuation in Philly

FBI doesn't think it's a terror incident

(Newser) - Authorities are looking for someone who may have improperly gained access to the tarmac at Philadelphia's airport, prompting passengers to be removed from a US Airways flight to Bermuda. An FBI spokesman says the incident doesn't appear to have any connection to terrorism. Police say initial reports from the scene...

Steve Jobs Disowns Japan? Not So, Says Apple

Apple calls tabloid report on ninja stars 'pure fiction'

(Newser) - No one keeps Steve Jobs away from his ninja throwing stars, at least according to a Japanese tabloid. The Apple CEO was barred from bringing the weapons aboard his private plane at a Japanese airport, and now he's vowed never to return to the country, says SPA! magazine in a...

Airport Scare: Not a Bomb (or the Plague)

Scientist once busted for 'unauthorized export' of samples

(Newser) - Great news: The guy carrying a suspected pipe bomb in his luggage at Miami airport wasn't carrying a pipe bomb after all. Not-so-great news: He's been busted previously for shady business regarding the transportation of plague bacteria. This, too, however, isn't as sinister as it might appear: The traveler is...

New TSA Pat-Downs Invasive, Groping

Believe it or not, you may want to choose the scanner

(Newser) - Would you rather have your naked body stared at or your entire body groped? Those will soon be your choices at airport security checkpoints. If you don’t want to be subjected to the controversial full-body scanners , you can opt for a new, more aggressive pat-down—which seems poised to...

Feds Admit Storing Body Scans
 Feds Admit Storing Body Scans 
Aug 6, 2010 1:42 AM CDT

Feds Admit Storing Body Scans

Scanners capable of storing, sending images

(Newser) - The "virtual strip search" images taken by airport body scanners, which federal agencies have long insisted can't and won't be stored, have been stored in the tens of thousands. The US Marshals service has admitted that over 30,000 of the über-revealing images were stored at a single...

Self-Boarding Comes to First US Airport
 Self-Boarding Comes 
 to First US Airport 


HOUSTON, WE HAVE A BOARDING PASS
Jul 28, 2010 5:52 AM CDT

Self-Boarding Comes to First US Airport

Houston experiment likely to spread

(Newser) - For Continental passengers flying out of Houston, boarding a plane has become a lot more like getting on the subway. The airport is the first in America to test "self-boarding" gates, in which passengers simply run their boarding passes through a machine before getting on the plane without having...

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