12160 Social Network2024-03-28T10:26:18ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1798383073?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://12160.info/group/tsaawarenessprojectstopirradiatingourbodiesandfond/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=1avqx422n9e3r&feed=yes&xn_auth=noNursing mom wins $75K settlement from TSA over airport incidenttag:12160.info,2014-04-26:2649739:Topic:14578052014-04-26T16:53:31.906ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2
<p>A California woman who says airport security screeners working for the federal Transportation Security Administration violated the agency's own rules and prevented her from traveling with pumped breast milk has won an agreement to settle the case for $75,000, her lawyer says.</p>
<p>Stacey Armato, a lawyer who was traveling in 2010 with her infant son, was eventually allowed to proceed from Phoenix to Los Angeles without either discarding her breast milk or having it X-rayed. However, that…</p>
<p>A California woman who says airport security screeners working for the federal Transportation Security Administration violated the agency's own rules and prevented her from traveling with pumped breast milk has won an agreement to settle the case for $75,000, her lawyer says.</p>
<p>Stacey Armato, a lawyer who was traveling in 2010 with her infant son, was eventually allowed to proceed from Phoenix to Los Angeles without either discarding her breast milk or having it X-rayed. However, that was only after Armato was put in a glass holding area by TSA agents for 40 minutes, police were called and she missed her scheduled flight, according to <a href="http://www.kpho.com/story/25315404/woman-settles-with-tsa-over-harassment-at-sky-harbor" title="CBS5">CBS5</a>, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/tsa-pay-75-000-breast-milk-snafu-article-1.1766297" title="New York Daily News">New York Daily News</a> and <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-arizona-breastmilk-20140423,0,1399355.story" title="Reuters">Reuters</a>.</p>
<p>The incident was captured on security camera footage.</p>
<p>Read more here: <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/nursing_mom_wins_75k_settlement_from_tsa_over_airport_incident/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email">http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/nursing_mom_wins_75k_settlement_from_tsa_over_airport_incident/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email</a></p> The parents of a toddler with spinal bifida are outraged after TSA officials forced their daughter to undergo a series of additional security measures ahead of their flight to Disney Worldtag:12160.info,2013-02-22:2649739:Topic:11292982013-02-22T06:12:02.833ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2
<h1>'I don't want to go to Disney World anymore': Parents' fury as TSA agents detain their crying wheelchair-bound daughter, THREE, and confiscate her stuffed animal</h1>
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<h1>'I don't want to go to Disney World anymore': Parents' fury as TSA agents detain their crying wheelchair-bound daughter, THREE, and confiscate her stuffed animal</h1>
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<li style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Forck family was flying from Missouri to Orlando, Florida for vacation</font></li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Three-year-old daughter, Lucy, was detained for further testing ahead of family's February 8 flight</font></li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Stuffed animal 'Lamby' was confiscated</font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lucy suffers from spinal bifida and is in a wheelchair</span></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TSA later admitted girl should never have been threatened with patdown</span></font></li>
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<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">The parents of a toddler with spinal bifida are outraged after TSA officials forced their daughter to undergo a series of additional security measures ahead of their flight to Disney World.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nathan and Annie Forck were flying out of their home state of Missouri on a February 8 flight bound for Orlando, Florida with their wheelchair-bound daughter Lucy and their two other children.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mrs Forck took a six-minute video detailing their toddler’s cries as she said through tears that she didn’t want to go to Disney World anymore, and is claiming the TSA discriminates against people who use mobility devices.</font></p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Upset: Throughout the patdown, the little girl was weeping and saying: 'i don't want to go to Disney World.' The family was flying to Orlando from their home in Missouri</p>
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<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">As</font> <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/tsa-detains-3-year-old-in-wheelchair.html" rel="nofollow"><font style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fox News Radio</span></font></a><font style="font-size: 1.2em;"> re</font><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">ports, the Forcks were attempting to fly to Orlando to enjoy a family vacation at Disney World and were flying out of Lambert-St Louis International Airport.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Though they got through the TSA security checkpoint without incident, a TSA agent pulled the family aside to screen Lucy’s wheelchair further for a pat down and swabbing her mobility device.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mrs Forck pulled out her smart phone and began recording the whole event, against the TSA agent’s request.</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Read More <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281769/Parents-fury-TSA-detains-wheelchair-bound-daughter-3-theyre-trying-fly-Disney-World-family-vacation.html" target="_blank">Here</a></font></p> TSA Pulls Use Of Controversial Full Body Scanners At JFK, LaGuardia Airportstag:12160.info,2012-10-23:2649739:Topic:10223832012-10-23T02:32:47.601ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2
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<p><strong>NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)</strong> — The controversial full body airport scanners are being removed from LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International, the Transportation Security Administration announced Sunday.</p>
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<p><strong>NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)</strong> — The controversial full body airport scanners are being removed from LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International, the Transportation Security Administration announced Sunday.</p>
<p>The Backscatter machines were <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/10/22/controversial-full-body-scanners-hit-jfk/">first used at JFK exactly two years ago</a> amid a flurry of controversy.</p>
<p>Opponents said the very detailed image of the human body provided by the machines is an invasion of privacy, while <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/28/l-i-congressman-calls-for-more-research-into-safety-of-airport-x-ray-scanners/">others argued the level of radiation emitted by the Backscatters</a> could be dangerous over the long term.</p>
<p>The TSA said its decision to pull the machines is in an effort to speed up security lines at the two New York City airports, and insists the <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/18/new-study-raises-concerns-over-full-body-scanners-at-airports/">full body scanners are safe</a>.</p>
<p>Some passengers at LaGuardia said they did not mind the use of the Backscatter body scanner machines.</p>
<p>“It didn’t bother me personally. Again, if I want to be a safe on a plane, if that’s what they need to do to get us on there and have us arrive safely, it’s fine by me,” one woman told WCBS 880′s Peter Haskell.</p>
<p>“Just feel real confident. Once I go through there, I know everything’s been checked out,” another air traveler told Haskell.</p>
<p>Each Backscatter machine costs $160,000, Haskell reported.</p>
<p><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/22/tsa-pulls-use-of-controversial-full-body-scanners-at-jfk-laguardia-airports/" target="_blank">MORE</a></p>
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<div class="content"><p>Airports across the European Union will reportedly abandon the use of X-ray scanners, as health concerns led bureaucrats to deny approval for their widespread use.</p>
<p><a href="https://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/controversial-naked-scanners-scrapped-at-manchester-airport-over-cancer-scare/">https://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/controversial-naked-scanners-scrapped-at-manchester-airport-over-cancer-scare/</a></p>
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<div class="content"><p>Airports across the European Union will reportedly abandon the use of X-ray scanners, as health concerns led bureaucrats to deny approval for their widespread use.</p>
<p><a href="https://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/controversial-naked-scanners-scrapped-at-manchester-airport-over-cancer-scare/">https://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/controversial-naked-scanners-scrapped-at-manchester-airport-over-cancer-scare/</a></p>
</div> TSA Kicks Woman Off Flight For Bad Attitudetag:12160.info,2012-09-09:2649739:Topic:9825322012-09-09T13:44:22.049ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2
<p><span>A TSA screener admitted to a woman traveling through Houston Airport that she was prevented from boarding her flight for retaliatory reasons as punishment for a bad attitude rather than any genuine security threat, after the woman refused to allow TSA agents to test her drink for explosives</span></p>
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<p align="left">The audio and video in the clip above is scratchy, but the woman is heard saying, “Let me get this straight, this is retaliatory for my…</p>
<p><span>A TSA screener admitted to a woman traveling through Houston Airport that she was prevented from boarding her flight for retaliatory reasons as punishment for a bad attitude rather than any genuine security threat, after the woman refused to allow TSA agents to test her drink for explosives</span></p>
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<p align="left">The audio and video in the clip above is scratchy, but the woman is heard saying, “Let me get this straight, this is retaliatory for my attitude, this is not making the airways safer it’s retaliatory.”</p>
<p align="left">“It pretty much definitely is,” the TSA screener responds.</p>
<p align="left">The incident began when the woman refused to allow TSA agents to carry out a controversial policy where they test drinks for explosives that are purchased by passengers <em>after</em> they have already passed through security.</p>
<p align="left">“This was inside the terminal at the Houston airport,” the woman writes on her You Tube channel. “I was not allowed to board a plane (even though I had already been through airport security) because I drank my water instead of letting the TSA “test” it. The TSA agent finally admitted that it wasn’t because they thought I was a security risk – it was because they were mad at me!”</p>
<p align="left">The new policy, which as we highlighted is completely pointless and unnecessary, was back in the headlines earlier this week after the <a href="http://www.infowars.com/video-shows-tsas-bizarre-new-security-policy/">Drudge Report posted an Infowars story</a> featuring a video which showed TSA screeners testing drinks in the departure lounge at Columbus Ohio Airport.</p>
<p align="left">After the story went viral, <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-says-bizarre-new-policy-business-as-usual.html">the TSA responded on its official Twitter feed </a>by re-posting a TSA blog response from July which claimed the procedure was “business as usual.” As we documented, the response was a glib attempt to brush aside the story and completely failed to justify the reasoning behind the policy.</p>
<p align="left">The fact that the TSA screener admits the woman is being punished for her attitude confirms the premise that many of the TSA’s security procedures actually have nothing to do with safety and are more a form of obedience training for the general public.</p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://www.infowars.com/tsa-kicks-woman-off-flight-for-bad-attitude/" target="_blank">MORE OF IT</a></p> Columbus Ohio Airport Video Shows TSA’s Bizarre New Security Policytag:12160.info,2012-09-03:2649739:Topic:9777592012-09-03T21:45:02.334ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2
<p>Federal agency tests drinks purchased inside airport</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br></br> Infowars.com<br></br>Monday, September 3, 2012</p>
<p>A video clip shot yesterday at Columbus Ohio Airport illustrates how the Transportation Security Administration has dreamed up a bizarre new way to waste time and taxpayer dollars – by testing drinks purchased by travelers for explosives inside the airport long after they have already passed security.…</p>
<p>Federal agency tests drinks purchased inside airport</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br/> Infowars.com<br/>Monday, September 3, 2012</p>
<p>A video clip shot yesterday at Columbus Ohio Airport illustrates how the Transportation Security Administration has dreamed up a bizarre new way to waste time and taxpayer dollars – by testing drinks purchased by travelers for explosives inside the airport long after they have already passed security.<iframe width="897" height="505" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oTZUZdJiI-Q?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<p align="left">The footage shows TSA agents walking around a departure lounge asking to test passengers’ drinks for explosive residue with a swab they hold over the liquid.</p>
<p align="left">“Now remember that this is inside the terminal, well beyond the security check and purchased inside the terminal…just people waiting to get on the plane,” writes the You Tube user who uploaded the video.</p>
<p align="left">“My wife and son came back from a coffee shop just around the corner, then we were approached. I asked them what they were doing. One of the TSA ladies said that they were checking for explosive chemicals (as we are drinking them). I said “really – inside the terminal? You have got to be kidding me.” I asked them if they wanted to swab us all. She responded with something like, ‘yes sometimes we need to do that’. I then asked if she wanted a urine sample…nonetheless, the TSA is way out of control,” he adds, joking that the TSA’s next move could be to visit people’s homes before they even leave for the airport (<a href="http://www.infowars.com/whistleblower-tsa-deliberately-hiring-psychopathic-criminals/">they’re already in the parking lot demanding to search people who aren’t even flying!</a>)</p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://www.infowars.com/tsa-demands-bizarre-new-power-to-test-drinks-purchased-in-airports/" target="_blank">As we have previously highlighted</a>, the drinks policy was recently introduced with virtually no explanation from the TSA whatsoever. The much vaunted 2006 liquid bomb plot on which this nonsense is all based <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/liquid-bomb-terror-plot-collapses-in-court.html" target="_blank">completely collapsed in court</a> and was revealed to be farcical at best.</p>
<p align="left">Experts have savaged rules relating to liquids being carried through security <a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/2438/banned-unbanned-constantly-changing-liquid-policy-is-symbol-of-homeland-security-disarray/">as pointless and unnecessary</a> and yet they still remain in place six years later, with ludicrous cases routinely popping up of mothers having to drink their own breast milk or <a href="http://todaytravel.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/05/10582817-tsa-apologizes-to-humiliated-mom-for-breast-pump-gaffe?lite" target="_blank">even pump it into empty bottles.</a></p>
<p align="left">But this new rule applies to drinks purchased within the airport after travelers have already passed airport security, items that have presumably already had to pass some form of security check to be brought inside the airport in the first place.</p>
<p align="left">The drinks testing farce has been accompanied by other harebrained TSA schemes which have virtually nothing to do with genuine security and everything to do with subjecting the public to intimidation and obedience training.</p>
<p align="left">The federal agency <a href="http://www.infowars.com/confirmed-the-tsa-is-ordering-travelers-to-freeze-on-command/">recently brought in a similarly asinine new policy</a> in which travelers are ordered to “freeze” on command by TSA screeners while passing through security – for no apparent reason other than to check they will obey orders without question.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://12160.info/xn/detail/2649739:Page:806705?xg_source=activity">VIDEO - Kafka in Chicago, O'Hare Airport - Three year old kid being body searched - TSA</a></strong></p>
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<p align="left">Perhaps the TSA should concentrate on real security threats and cleaning up their behavior of their own criminally-prone employees instead of harassing travelers who have already been through the ordeal of a grope down or a radiation body scan.</p>
<p align="left">Given the fact that TSA agents now festoon <a href="http://www.infowars.com/tsa-to-conduct-grope-downs-at-dnc/">political events</a>, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/02/29/the-tsa-is-coming-to-a-highway-near-you/">highways</a> and even <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032499_TSA_high_school.html">prom nights</a>, how long is it before we have blue-shirted goons in fast food restaurants checking whether or not our Diet Cokes are weapons of mass destruction?</p>
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<p align="left"><em>Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/">Prison Planet.com</a>. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.</em></p>
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<p>Can the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) pull you out of line without any rational reason, quiz you on where you are going and why? And if you choose not to answer, does that make you “hostile?” One newspaper writer from the Midwest found out the answers to those questions on Monday when he experienced the TSA’s new “chat-down” while waiting in line at airport security.…</p>
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<p>Can the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) pull you out of line without any rational reason, quiz you on where you are going and why? And if you choose not to answer, does that make you “hostile?” One newspaper writer from the Midwest found out the answers to those questions on Monday when he experienced the TSA’s new “chat-down” while waiting in line at airport security.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.mlive.com/opinion/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/08/steve_gunn_37.html" target="_blank">Muskeegon Chronical writer Steve Gunn</a> was returning home after a few days at a music festival in Colorado. Steve’s travel agent had him flying from Denver to Detroit and then connecting to a flight from Detroit to Grand Rapids. This is a common pattern in air travel. Customers fly from one big city to another and then catch a short flight to their regional airport. It happens hundreds of times each day in Detroit alone.</p>
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<p><strong>Read More: <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/get-ready-for-tsa-chat-downs-author-tells-theblaze-about-a-new-airport-security-procedure-you-might-not-know-about/" target="_blank">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/get-ready-for-tsa-chat-downs-author-tells-theblaze-about-a-new-airport-security-procedure-you-might-not-know-about/</a></strong></p>
<p></p> TSA Chief: Al-Qaeda 'ass'assin Altered Underwear Bomb Formulatag:12160.info,2012-07-27:2649739:Topic:9321732012-07-27T20:51:59.121ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800318881?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800318881?profile=original" width="518"></img></a> ASPEN, Colo. — U.S. security officials are on the lookout for a new type of explosive, after analysis of an upgraded underwear bomb intercepted by a CIA operation in Yemen.</p>
<p>Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum that the device smuggled out by a double-agent in an operation earlier this year was an upgrade from…</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800318881?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800318881?profile=original" width="518"/></a>ASPEN, Colo. — U.S. security officials are on the lookout for a new type of explosive, after analysis of an upgraded underwear bomb intercepted by a CIA operation in Yemen.</p>
<p>Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum that the device smuggled out by a double-agent in an operation earlier this year was an upgrade from the underwear bomb carried by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to try to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas 2009.</p>
<p>"We found in the Underwear Plot, Part 2...that a different type of explosive had been used than the previous one," Pistole said, "so we have gone back and recalibrated all the equipment and we have been working with our canine to detect this different type of explosive."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/tsa-chief-alqaida-altered_n_1711640.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/tsa-chief-alqaida-altered_n_1711640.html</a></p> TSA Let 25 Illegal Aliens Attend Flight School Owned by Illegal Alientag:12160.info,2012-07-19:2649739:Topic:9202982012-07-19T12:03:41.608ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2
<p><b>(CNSNews.com) --</b> The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a Boston-area flight school that was owned by yet another illegal alien, according to the Government Accountability Office.</p>
<p>The illegal-alien flight-school attendees included eight who had entered the country illegally and 17 who had overstayed their allowed period of admission into the United States, according to an audit by the GAO.</p>
<p>Six of the illegal…</p>
<p><b>(CNSNews.com) --</b> The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a Boston-area flight school that was owned by yet another illegal alien, according to the Government Accountability Office.</p>
<p>The illegal-alien flight-school attendees included eight who had entered the country illegally and 17 who had overstayed their allowed period of admission into the United States, according to an audit by the GAO.</p>
<p>Six of the illegal aliens were actually able to get pilot’s licenses.</p>
<p>Discovery of the trouble at the flight school began when local police--not federal authorities--pulled over the owner of the school on a traffic violation and were able to determine that he was an illegal alien.</p>
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<p>Rep. Mike Rogers (R.-Ala.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security, said he found the GAO's findings "amazing."</p>
<p>"We have cancer patients, Iraq War veterans and Nobel Prize winners all forced to undergo rigorous security checks before getting on an airplane," said Rogers, "and at the same time, ten years after 9/11, there are foreign nationals in the United States trained to fly just like Mohammed Atta and the other 9/11 hijackers did, and not all of them are necessarily getting a security background check."</p>
<p>Stephen Lord, who is the GAO's director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues, testified about the matter Wednesday in Rogers' subcommittee. Rogers asked him: "Isn't it true that, based on your report, the Transportation Security Administration cannot assure the American people that foreign terrorists are not in this country learning how to fly airplanes, yes or no?"</p>
<p>Lord responded: "At this time, no."</p>
<p>Although the illegal alien who owned the Massachusetts flight school had not undergone a required TSA security threat assessment and had not been approved for flight training by the agency, he nonetheless held two Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pilot licenses, also known as FAA certificates.</p>
<p>The GAO report, released today, is entitled <a href="http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/592598.pdf"><i>General Aviation Security: TSA’s Process for Ensuring Foreign Flight Students Do Not Pose a Security Risk Has Weaknesses</i>.</a></p>
<p>In response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. homeland perpetrated by terrorists who learned how to pilot aircraft at flight schools in Florida, Arizona, and Minnesota, the TSA, a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), developed the “Alien Flight Student Program (AFSP) to help determine whether foreign students enrolling at flight schools pose a security threat,” said the GAO's Stephen Lord in written testimony prepared for Wednesday's hearing in the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security.</p>
<p>According to the <i>911 Commission Report</i>, four of the Sept. 11 hijackers who entered the United States with legal visas had overstayed their authorized period of admission.</p>
<p>Under the Alien Flight Student Program, foreign nationals are supposed to be subjected to a TSA security threat assessment prior to receiving flight training to determine whether they pose a security threat to the United States.</p>
<p>“According to TSA regulations, an individual poses a security threat when the individual is suspected of posing, or is known to pose, a threat to transportation or national security, a threat of air piracy or terrorism, a threat to airline or passenger security, or a threat to civil aviation security,” Lord said in his written testimony.</p>
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<p>more: <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tsa-let-25-illegal-aliens-attend-flight-school-owned-illegal-alien">http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tsa-let-25-illegal-aliens-attend-flight-school-owned-illegal-alien</a></p> TSA tentatively okays private screeners in Orlandotag:12160.info,2012-06-18:2649739:Topic:8873982012-06-18T17:14:52.118ZSweettina2https://12160.info/profile/sweettina2
<div id="entryhead"><span class="timestamp">Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 06/18/2012</span><h1 class="entry-title"><span class="entry-title">TSA tentatively okays private screeners in Orlando</span></h1>
<div class="blog-byline">By <span class="author vcard"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/joe-davidson/2011/03/02/ABXUQ7M_page.html" rel="author">Joe Davidson</a></span></div>
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<p>The Transportation Security Administration has given preliminary approval to a plan that would allow Orlando…</p>
<div id="entryhead"><span class="timestamp">Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 06/18/2012</span><h1 class="entry-title"><span class="entry-title">TSA tentatively okays private screeners in Orlando</span></h1>
<div class="blog-byline">By <span class="author vcard"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/joe-davidson/2011/03/02/ABXUQ7M_page.html" rel="author">Joe Davidson</a></span></div>
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<p>The Transportation Security Administration has given preliminary approval to a plan that would allow Orlando Sanford International Airport to use private security screeners.</p>
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<p>Screeners employed by private companies are already used at 16 airports under the agency’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/optout/index.shtm">Screening Partnership Program</a>. Republicans have pressed for greater use of private screeners and welcomed last week’s announcement.</p>
<p>“I hope this opens a new era of reform for TSA operations, not only at Orlando Sanford but across the nation,” said Rep. John L. <a target="_blank" href="http://mica.house.gov/press-releases/tsa-green-light-to-orlando-sanford-screener-reform/">Mica</a> (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “It’s critical that TSA get out of the business of running a huge bureaucracy and human resources operation and refocus its attention on security, analyzing intelligence, and setting the highest risk-based security standards. TSA needs to focus on going after terrorists — not little old ladies, veterans and children.”</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/tsa-tentatively-okays-private-screeners-in-orlando/2012/06/16/gJQAceuehV_blog.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/tsa-tentatively-okays-private-screeners-in-orlando/2012/06/16/gJQAceuehV_blog.html</a></p>
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