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08/21/2018 / By Vicki Batts

TSA head says covert spying on Americans “makes awful lot of sense” … urges expansion of secret police program

For many freedom-loving Americans, government surveillance in any capacity is a rough sell. Quiet Skies, a government program designed to track travelers that may be a threat, has been heavily criticized for tracking innocent American citizens who were not suspected of any crimes. Even so, TSA Administrator David Pekoske stands firm on the program, stating […]

12/19/2016 / By JD Heyes

TSA violates breast cancer mom with invasive, humiliating body search

The worst thing to come out of the USA Patriot Act passed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Other than the massive unconstitutional domestic surveillance that the law “authorized” was the creation of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Under the guise of “making it safe to fly,” TSA agents have been trained and empowered to […]

12/16/2016 / By Daniel Barker

TSA violates breast cancer mom with invasive, humiliating body search

The American public continues to be harassed, groped and humiliated by the TSA on a daily basis at airport security screening checkpoints across the country, and although most incidents are never reported, every few months or so a new story hits the headlines reminding us just how invasive and insensitive their tactics can be. The […]

09/19/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

TSA security background checks remain unreliable

(BigGovernment.news) The Transportation Security Administration’s program for issuing security credentials at the nation’s ports remains unreliable, and could allow serious breaches, an inspector general’s report said. Department of Homeland Security inspector general John Roth’s report, issued Sept. 1, said the TSA’s identification credentials system is in such a state of disarray that “there is a risk […]

07/11/2016 / By Mary Wilder

Undeniable tyranny: TSA beats a blind, deaf teenage girl to a bloody pulp while claiming to protect us all from terrorists

Just when it seemed as though the federal government — and specifically the TSA — couldn’t sink any lower, news broke of what is quite possibly the corrupt organization’s most heinous offense to date. In an absolutely heartbreaking, infuriating bit of news, the TSA reportedly physically assaulted a partially blind, partially deaf cancer patient whose brain tumor […]

06/07/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Privatize airport security? Of course that’s the right answer

(Freedom.news) “TSA recommends passengers show up at least 48-hours early for flights,” writes Agent Smith of @TSAgov, a parody Twitter account lampooning the beleaguered Transportation Security Administration. However, when taking a look at the state of security checkpoints at airports across the nation — where recently wait times have stretched for hours, causing tens of thousands of […]

06/06/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

TSA union chief blames security lines on Congress, wants to put taxpayers on the hook for thousands more screeners

(BigGovernment.news) If there is one thing a union chief can be counted on doing, it is increasing the size of the union he represents. Normally that might be a good thing, but when the union represents government employees, then taxpayers are on the hook and that’s rarely a good thing. So it is with American Federation of Government […]

05/20/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Long, hot summer of travel: Neither the airlines nor the TSA are budging when it comes to addressing security lines

(BigGovernment.news) In what has evolved into a perfect storm of stupidity, government inertia and old-fashioned stubbornness, it looks like air travel for millions of Americans this summer is going to be less like an adventure and more like a horror movie. In recent days top officials at the Transportation Security Administration, always ready to default […]

05/13/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

Libertarian, small-govt. groups challenging TSA body scanner rule in court

(Freedom.news) The ridiculously invasive, potentially dangerous and overrated full-body scanners utilized by the Transportation Security Administration have not been codified by regulation, but several freedom-minded groups are not prepared to take it lying down. As noted by AMI Newswire, the TSA’s final rule justifying the agency’s use of whole body scanners in the nation’s airports is being […]

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