Shock: TSA camera broke for 6 days

The federal security camera located in the corridor where a major security breach occurred Sunday night at Newark Liberty International Airport had not been working for six days, several officials said today.

That's right folks, these are the people entrusted with our "safety"

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TNT turns out to be honey

A Bakersfield, Calif., airport was temporarily shut down Tuesday after officials said a passenger's luggage tested positive for TNT. The suspicious material turned out to five bottles filled with honey.

Does it bother or frighten anyone else that we have spent billions of dollars on machines that can't tell the difference between honey and tnt?

VS.

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Foreign Govts to Obama: Yeah, we'll get to that extra security when we can...

"Everything is the same. There is no extra security," said an aviation official in Lebanon...

But at international airports in Lebanon, Syria and Libya, all on the list, there were no visible changes in screening. And several European governments, including Germany, France and Spain, said they were still studying the rules before tightening security any further...

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tests show body scanners don't see liquids, powders, and plastic

The explosive device smuggled in the clothing of the Detroit bomb suspect would not have been detected by body-scanners...

Since the attack was foiled, body-scanners, using "millimetre-wave" technology and revealing a naked image of a passenger, have been touted as a solution to the problem of detecting explosive devices that are not picked up by traditional metal detectors - such as those containing liquids, chemicals or plastic explosive.

But Ben Wallace, the Conservative MP, who was formerly involved in a project by a leading British defence research firm to develop the scanners for airport use, said trials had shown that such low-density materials went undetected.

Tests by scientists in the team at Qinetiq, which Mr Wallace advised before he became an MP in 2005, showed the millimetre-wave scanners picked up shrapnel and heavy wax and metal, but plastic, chemicals and liquids were missed.

If a material is low density, such as powder, liquid or thin plastic - as well as the passenger's clothing - the millimetre waves pass through and the object is not shown on screen. High- density material such as metal knives, guns and dense plastic such as C4 explosive reflect the millimetre waves and leave an image of the object.

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TSA drops challenge to freedom of speech

For the second time in as many weeks, TSA has been forced to change a crazy policy, KEEP THE PRESSURE ON!!!

"WASHINGTON (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday dropped its subpoenas it had issued to two Internet writers..."

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Should we trust TSA with Radiation & Our lives?

If you can't trust the people at Cedars-Sinai to properly operate a radiation producing machine...can you really trust TSA?

At one of the most famous hospitals in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 206 patients were exposed to 8 times the normal dose of radiation...

As a result of the higher dosing, patients were exposed to as many as 4 grays of radiation to the head, instead of the expected 0.5 grays.

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This is what were calling "security"????

"What's confusing to passengers is also confusing to potential terrorists."

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Abdulmutallab: More Like Me In Yemen

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253, told FBI agents there were more just like him in Yemen who would strike soon.

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al Qaeda brags about overcoming american security

In a web posting today, the al Qaeda group displayed a picture of Abdulmutallab, calling him a hero who "overcame legendary American intelligence which showed its fragility, putting its nose in the ground, using all of what they spent in new security techniques against them."

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Make sure you bring your Papers to the Airport

WSJ: Airlines this week will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping boarding passes out of the hands of suspected terrorists, the Transportation Security Administration said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125012447548327753.html

Do you trust the airlines with your personal information? How did we get to this point? Why we watching our liberty and freedom be slowly eroded?