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Opinion: Airport Security Complaints -- We've Been Here Before

(Dec. 3) -- Forty years ago, in the aftermath of a flurry of aircraft hijackings, many of them to Cuba, President Richard Nixon issued an executive order implementing mandatory surveillance and screening searches at U.S. airports. Procedures included screening by magnetometer and pat-downs of passengers who activated the...

The TSA's Greatest Hits: 4 Notorious Pat-Downs

(Nov. 22) -- It hit critical mass when a California man decided that the government's new airport security measures went too far. "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," John Tyner told a Transportation Security Administration agent in a San Diego airport earlier this month, as the agent prepared to perform a new...

Pilots Allowed to Skip Intrusive Airport Screening

WASHINGTON (Nov. 20) -- Pilots are getting a break from enduring the stepped-up and intrusive screening of airline passengers that's causing a public outcry. Days before the Thanksgiving holiday travel period, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole offered little hope of a similar reprieve for regular...

Full-Body Security Scanners: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You

(July 21) -- Modesty and air travel are two concepts that appear to be mutually exclusive these days, thanks to an increasing level of scrutiny at the security checkpoint. Exhibit A: the controversial full-body scanner, likely coming soon to an airport near you. In the U.S., 142 are currently in operation at 41 airports,...

Left Unsaid: How to Connect the Terrorism Dots

(Jan. 5) -- When President Barack Obama declared that U.S. intelligence must do more to identify potential terror threats, he left out one key detail: just how the government will piece together future plots in time to foil them. After meeting with his top national security advisers, Obama said Tuesday that the...