Another Fake Air Marshal Nabbed by Real Ones
See, real ones don’t tell everybody they’re air marshals.
Homeland Insecurity
TSA: Fourth Amendment = Terrorism
Via The Legal Satyricon, here's another tale involving our heroes at the Trouser Search Administration. Aaron Tobey, a 21-year-old student is suing the TSA and other officials, alleging that he was unconstitutionally and illegally detained after he took his shirt…
Iraqi Treasury Gets Partial Refund on Magic Wands
“Dowsing rods” might be a better term for these, but either way they were completely bogus.
Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
I guess this would be cheaper than getting a divorce. According to the Daily Mail, an immigration officer who worked for the UK Border Agency managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years by putting her…
Airport Security Officials Successfully Disarm Toy Soldier
Is it better or worse to know that airport security in other countries can be as stupid as ours? I can't decide. A Canadian couple that visited the Royal Signals Museum during a trip to the UK said that officials…
TSA Worker Gets Two Years for Planting Logic Bomb
Wired magazine reports that a 46-year-old TSA data analyst has been sentenced to two years in prison for loading "logic bomb" software on the system at the TSA’s Colorado Springs Operations Center. The CSOC system is responsible for screening TSA workers…
New TSA Scanner Procedure Is Dumb in a New Way
Their creativity knows no bounds.
TSA Thwarts Frozen-Chicken Plot
You know, there are people out there, such as me, who have accused the TSA of being pointless largely because it is always responding to the last threat we faced rather than thinking ahead. Well, I stand corrected. As this…
Scanners Successfully Locate Things for TSA to Steal, Not Much Else
A former TSA officer got three years' probation last week for stealing things out of the luggage he was supposed to be screening. Well, I guess he was screening them, he was just screening them for loot. According to a…
School District Ends Ban on Dangerous Writing Implements
Good news — the superintendent of the North Brookfield School District in Massachusetts has announced that students are again free to carry their own writing implements, ending a short-lived ban on that practice. He said the ban on this dangerous…