TSA Doesn’t Know if Bomb-Detecting Machines Are ‘Operational’

What? THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS.

TSA Pat-Down At DIA Leads To Sex Assault Investigation

We should see many more of these.  Let them worry about the public they fondle every day.

Are terrorists making dry runs on US aircraft?

TSA says "don't worry your pretty little heads."

Two Examples of Reprehensible and Outrageous TSA Behavior…and Senator Rand Paul Speaks Up for Common Sense

White House Flack Carney on Rand Paul: “The passenger was not detained"

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

Sen. Paul told TheDC that he certainly felt like he was detained. “If you’re told you can’t leave, does that count as detention?” Paul asked.

“I tried to leave the cubicle to speak to one of the TSA people and I was barked at: ‘Do not leave the cubicle!’ So, that, to me sounds like I’m being asked not to leave the cubicle. It sounds a little bit like I’m being detained.”

Woman Gropes TSA Agent's Breast at Security Checkpoint

Turn around is fair play?

The TSA and You

Via Drudge:

MOTHER ARRESTED AFTER REFUSING TO ALLOW TSA TO GROPE HER DAUGHTER...

Didn't want her 'touched inappropriately or have her crotch grabbed'...

OFFICER: Mother used 'very stern voice, quite a bit of attitude'...

TSA Makes 95-Year-Old Woman Remove Adult Diaper But Allows Nigerian Immigrant Fly With Fake ID and Expired Boarding Pass.

Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi of Nigeria arrested, found with 10 other expired boarding passes

Federal agents have arrested a Nigerian man after he successfully flew from New York to Los Angeles, and then attempted to fly from Los Angeles to Atlanta, without having a valid boarding pass for either flight.

Who caught this impostor? The super sleuths who make a living feeling up young women or groping a man's "junk?"

Nah.

It was a flight attendant who noticed Noibi was sitting in a seat that was supposed to be vacant.

Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search

The representative told her that personnel had followed procedures during the search.

Don't you feel safer now?

Texas House Bans Offensive Security Pat-Downs

Linked by Drudge.

The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs.


Approved late Thursday night, the measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person” including through clothing.

Ladies, men, Kids: are you ready for your airport prostate exam?

TSA: Back off, Constitution says we can...

What's our take on the Texas House of Representatives voting to ban the current TSA pat-down? Well, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2) prevents states from regulating the federal government.

So says Blogger Bob, who is part of what the TSA calls the TSA Blog Team.  In other words, we're the Feds and we can do anything to you that we want including fondling your sex organs.

Miss USA Sexually Molested by TSA

"The country's in the very best of hands."

Glenn Reynolds has several recurring themes, one of which is the tongue-in-cheek tag: "The country's in the very best of hands,"  a song from the 1956 musical "Lil' Abner".  Even then - a time that many consider the Golden Age in America - you could get a laugh at the expense of the Federal Government.

I was reminded of this when I read about the success that an Islamic terrorist had in penetrating British Airways plotting to get a bomb on board and disrupt the airline's computer system.

Via the Wall Street Journal:

U.K. Prosecutors Tie BA Employee to Awlaki

LONDON—U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki directed a U.K.-based employee of British Airways PLC to cause "chaos" by attacking the airline's computer systems and to help ship a "package" on board a U.S.-bound plane, prosecutors alleged in a London court Tuesday. ...

In messages prosecutors say Mr. Awlaki sent Mr. Karim in early 2010, the cleric tells him to stay in his job to find the "limitations and cracks" in airport security. Mr. Awlaki also laid out his biggest priority: the U.S.

"Anything there, even on a smaller scale compared to what you can do in the U.K., would be our choice," Mr. Awlaki allegedly said in messages read in court.

Of course the TSA has safeguards against this happening in this country.

Generally speaking, employees who work in high-level jobs or behind security checkpoints at airports get the most scrutiny. In the U.S., for example, any employee who has access to secure areas of the airport has to go through a security-threat assessment carried out by the Transportation Security Administration. That includes checking for outstanding warrants, criminal history and the like.

But ....

Mr. Karim arrived in Britain in 2006 and laid low, never expressing radical views, prosecutors said. The married father of one belonged to a gym and played football, coming across as a mild mannered and respectful neighbor in the northern English city of Newcastle. But Mr. Karim had a particular skill: his knowledge of IT.

That's right; he had no outstanding warrants, no criminal history, married, played football, and was mild mannered. In fact, he displayed fewer indications of adherence to violent Jihad than Major Nidal Hasan before he went on his murderous rampage at Fort Hood.   And because one of the holiest commandments in the Liberal bible is that THOU SHALT NOT PROFILE, we can be sure that our version of Mr. Karim will receive less scrutiny than Joe Lunchbucket from Peoria.  After all, that's how Major Hasan managed to avoid getting the boot before he killed 13 and wounded 30 more shouting "Allahu Akbar!"

The country's in the very best of hands.

TSA Unveils New Genital Visualizers

TSA stays ahead of the curve by preventing penises from being used to smuggle guns, grenades or Jihadist.