Last week, I posted a link to this video of one woman’s experience with airport security after asking to have her breast milk visually screened instead of x-rayed (as TSA procedures allow). At the time, I said I’d like to hear the TSA’s side of the incident, as the video appears to show TSA employees […]
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Did the TSA Back Down?
Here’s an interesting round-up of stories suggesting the Transportation Security Administration kept body-image scanners (and the associated aggressive pat downs) out of service over the holiday weekend. If so, it was a cynical effort to dampen growing concerns about the TSA’s new security measures — so the TSA could proclaim “Opt-Out” day had become “TSA […]
Sensible Column by Barry Rubin on Airport Security
One key point: the threats to airline security have come from abroad, and the U.S. should be focusing on flights coming from foreign countries. I had been thinking along the same lines. If nothing else, if domestic-based terrorists did want to blow up some planes, but airport security was too intense, what would stop them […]
Are the New TSA Airport Scans and Pat-Downs Unconstitutional?
By Jonathan H. Adler on November 28, 2010 10:26 am in Airport Security, Fourth Amendment, War on Terror
Orin’s colleague Jeffrey Rosen argues in today’s Washington Post there is a “strong argument” that the Transportation Security Administration’s use of full-body-image scanning devices and more thorough pat-downs are unreasonable searches and seizures prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. Although the Supreme Court hasn’t evaluated airport screening technology, lower courts have emphasized, as the U.S. Court […]
Greenwald v. The Nation
Glenn Greenwald rightly takes The Nation to task for publishing a a shoddy, fact-free, and reckless hit piece by Mark Ames and Yasha Levine attacking John Tyner and other critics of the Transportation Security Administration’s new airport security protocols as nothing more than fringe libertarian, Koch-funded astroturf. Tyner is the fellow who became an internet […]