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Witch Says TSA Fired Her After Co-Worker Accused Her of Evil Hex

Former Transportation Security Administration officer and practicing witch Carole A. Smith says she was fired from her job after co-worker Mary Bagnoli accused her of putting a hex on her car, MSNBC.com reports. Smith, a follower of the pagan religion Wicca, worked at New York's Albany International Airport, where she had...

Alaska Lawmaker With Mastectomy Refuses TSA Pat-Down

Alaska state Rep. Sharon Cissna is returning to Juneau today by car, small plane and ferry, rather than by plane as scheduled, because she refused to be patted down by security workers Sunday at the Seattle airport. Cissna, an Anchorage Democrat who was returning home after a medical treatment, underwent security...

Legislation Would Make Sharing TSA's Body Scan Images a Crime

Proposed new legislation would protect travelers who worry that images taken of them by airport scanners could end up on the Internet. An amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill would make it a crime to share images taken by the Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanners,...

TSA Probes Pilot Critical of Airport Security

SAN FRANCISCO - A pilot who posted videos on YouTube that were critical of security at San Francisco International Airport is now the subject of an investigation, the pilot's attorney says. The pilot placed several videos on YouTube in late November or early December that showed how ground crew members can enter secure...

Children's Singer Takes on TSA With Protest Tune

(Dec. 17) -- Finally, someone is benefiting from the invasive TSA body searches: A Grammy-winning children's music artist, who after a four-decade career groping for a hit has written a song about the Transportation Security Administration that's touched a nerve -- among other body parts. His name is Buck Howdy and his...

Background on Transportation Security Administration

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the security of the traveling public in the United States.

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