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Doing the airport security checkpoint dance
Crime and Safety - Sun-Sentinel??Yesterday's story about??an investigation into the theft of a traveler's $6,500 Rolex watch??at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport prompted readers to send along their tips, via??Facebook,??for protecting personal property as it travels??...Tags: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Theft, Facebook, Miami International Airport
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Palm Beach County congressman joins critics of TSA body scans
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsU.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, on Friday joined the critics of the Transportation Security Administration's policies on body pat downs and full body scans at airports. ???Passengers are angry, and they should be. Full-body pat-downs and explicit...Tags: Tequesta
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TSA leadership vacuum: Case of politics
The Swampby Mark Silva Think of it as FEMA in the middle of hurricane season without a FEMA director: the Transportation Safety Administration in high terrorism season without a TSA director. The man whom President Barack Obama has tapped to run......Tags: Travel, FBI, CBS Corp., National Government, Harry Reid
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TSA: Questions of screening and memory
The Swampby Mark Silva The blocked nominee for chief of the Transportation Security Administration may face more than controversy over the unionization of the nation's airport screeners - he now finds himself explaining his own only recently refreshed memory of...Tags: FBI, Hawaii, San Diego (San Diego, California), Harry Reid, Susan Collins
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TSA nominee withdraws: 'Politics'
The Swampby Mark Silva Erroll Southers, the Los Angeles airport official whose nomination to lead the Transportation Security Administration was blocked by Republican opposition in Washington, has withdrawn his name from consideration. Southers, in a statement...Tags: FBI, Politics, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Washington (U.S. state)
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TSA chief nominated, retired general
The Swampby Christi Parsons A former Army intelligence officer is President Barack Obama's choice to head the Transportation Security Administration, an administration official said today. The appointment of retired Gen. Robert Harding is expected later today,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Corporate Crime, Barack Obama, U.S. Army
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Knives on a plane?
Once in a while, a government agency adopts a policy that is logical, hardheaded, based on experience and unswayed by cheap sentiment. This may be surprising enough to make you reconsider your view of bureaucrats. But not to worry: It usually doesn't...
Tags: Terrorism, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Edward J Markey, U.S. Congress
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Railroad police on high alert as Sept. 11 anniversary approaches
Railroad police are on high alert for suicide bombers at Union Station in Chicago as the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks approaches this week, authorities said.
Based on intelligence that al-Qaida might attempt to strike again in the U.S.,...Tags: Travel, Chicago, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chicago Tribune, National Security
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Why the no-fly list doesn't fly
Flying commercial can be a terrible hassle these days, but not for Steven Washburn. The people in charge of airport security have decided to spare him all the inconveniences. No taking off his shoes and belt, no putting his liquids in a plastic bag, no...
Tags: Mitt Romney, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Security Measures
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Right-wing reflex: Blame Obama first
Republicans are not alone in their outrage that the Internal Revenue Service singled out tea party groups for extra scrutiny to their applications for nonprofit tax status. Nobody likes to be profiled. The IRS folks should have known better. "You've got...
Tags: Justice System, Parties and Movements, Richard Nixon, Internal Revenue Service, Crime, Law and Justice
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The case against turning schools into forts
The shootings in Connecticut have the potential to do to schools what 9-11 did to airports. Armed guards and metal detectors. Will my kindergartner be sent through a child-sized backscatter next year in search of contraband under her clothes? Will her...
Tags: Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association of America, Parenting, Teresa Jacobs, Teaching and Learning
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Don't risk TSA hassle for 'packing' catnip
My Pet WorldQ: We'll be traveling to the Miami area by plane to see relatives for Thanksgiving. My daughters are both cat crazy, so we bought some really potent catnip at a local cat show and would like to take it to them. We've been storing it in the freezer. What...Tags: Travel, Science, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Leukemia, Kidney Infection
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Dec 22, 2012
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