Articles Tagged with ''TSA''

Security guards at John F. Kennedy Airport are threatening to walk off the job this month.

The barcode on expedited screening system PreCheck's boarding passes is unencrypted, allowing tech-savvy travelers to decode which security screening they are subject to.

New TSA historian Michael Smith has worked for two years to compile artifacts and oral histories pertaining to the origin, history and mission of the Transportation Security Administration. 

The Transportation Security Administration is revealing the airports where nearly 400 fired TSA employees worked.

An internal report shows screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport are properly executing standard pat-downs of passengers only 16.7% of the time.

The newly adopted GOP platform states an intent to privatize the Transportation Security Administration in search of more cost-effective security operations across the country. 

While the TSA cost $6.5 billion last year, that cost does not include additional costs such as police in airports, time-spent by travelers and economic impact of counterterrorism mandates. 

So far in 2012, 375,432,402 passengers have traveled through TSA checkpoints nationwide, but 30,204 of those have submitted complaints.

Under pressure to meet high demands for stops and searches, TSA behavioral detection officers resort to racial profiling to pad their numbers, according to 32 federal officers at Logan International Airport.