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Airport Security

• Playing Catch-up on Aviation Security
  TSA is always one step behind the terrorists
  Robert Poole
  August 19, 2006
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #20
  Topics include: dealing with the missile threat to airliners; "bad object" follies continue; checkpoint explosives screening; and registered traveler progress.
  Robert Poole
  August 1, 2006
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #19
  Topics include: cargo container screening; explosives vs. knives in passenger screening; devolving screening functions; and registered traveler progress.
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2006
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #18
  Topics include: backsliding on Registered Traveler; getting serious about risk-based policy; protecting airport perimeters; fixing baggage screening; and notes & quotes.
  Robert Poole
  March 1, 2006
• Air Security's Latest "F"
  More than four years after 9/11 it's time to fix TSA, improve airport security
  Robert Poole
  January 31, 2006
• New at Reason.org: Aviation Security Gets an "F"
  Chris Mitchell
  January 30, 2006, 11:34am
• Plan Urges TSA to Put Airports in Charge of Screening, Switch to Risk-Based System
  Airport security like Israeli and European models with TSA setting, enforcing rules
  January 19, 2006
• Airport Security
  Time for a New Model
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2006
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #17
  Topics include: new Reason study calling for rethinking TSA's role; registered traveler ramp up; muddled thinking on carry-on revisions; a new tool for protecting airport perimeters; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2006
• Airport Security: Let airports take over
  Government shouldn't be regulator and provider
  Robert Poole
  October 17, 2005
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #16
  Topics include: resiliency vs. target-hardening in disaster preparedness; dumping rinky-dink screening; secondary cockpit doors on United; fixing up the opt-out program; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2005
• Improving Management of the Aviation Security Workforce
  Testimony before U.S. House Homeland Security subcommittee
  Robert Poole
  July 28, 2005
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #15
  Topics include: transit security vs. aviation security; progress with the Registered Traveler program; protecting airports, not aircraft; devolving screening to airports; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2005
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #14
  Topics include: the beginning of Orlando's private "Known Traveler" program, airport screening opt-out risks, the costs and limits of missile defense, risk-based threat screening, and other news.
  Robert Poole
  June 1, 2005
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #13
  Topics include: homeland security priorities, the future of airport screening, paying for aviation security, expanding the registered traveler program, the arrival of better EDS technology, and other news.
  Robert Poole
  March 1, 2005
• Security: A Time to Pause
  The airport industry needs to push for fundamental changes at TSA
  Robert Poole
  February 15, 2005
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #12
  Topics include: departing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's legacy, the Screening Partnership Program, increasingly intrusive airport screenings, new approaches to the Registered Traveller Program, and other news.
  Robert Poole
  December 1, 2004
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #11
  Topics include: security flaws identified in the 9/11 Commission report, compensated secondary screening, alternative baggage handling, Congressman Mica's critique of TSA, congressional innumeracy, and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2004
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #10
  Topics include: access control and perimeter security, explosive detection screening, screening opt-out guidelines, concerns about TSA screeners, and other news.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2004
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #9
  Topics include: devolution, disaster response, and other security news.
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2004
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #8
  Topics include: developments in airline security, airport baggage screening, and how not to respond to the Madrid bombing.
  Robert Poole
  March 1, 2004
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #7
  Topics include: air hassles, risk-based cargo screening, and missile defense.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2004
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #6
  Topics include: cockpit doors, a private-sector trusted traveler proposal, and rethinking defense against terrorism.
  Robert Poole
  October 1, 2003
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #5
  Topics include: the registered traveler pilot program, cargo plane doors, and baggage theft.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2003
• Shore Up Existing Security
  Equipping all planes with anti-missile devices isn't best strategy
  Robert Poole
  August 22, 2003
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #4
  Topics include: the closing the belly-cargo loophole, inadequate explosive detection systems, and the LAX master plan.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2003
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #3
  Topics include: new report calling for trusted traveler system and offering alternative to CAPPS II.
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2003
• A Risk Based Airport Security Policy
  Robert Poole and George Passantino
  May 1, 2003
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #2
  Topics include: airport passenger screening, rethinking checked-baggage screening, and baggage processing.
  Robert Poole
  March 1, 2003
• Gaping Holes in Airport Security
  Airports should be allowed to test private screeners
  Robert Poole
  September 19, 2002
• Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #1
  Topics include: baggage screening.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2002
• Improving Airport Passenger Screening
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2002
• Rethinking Checked-Baggage
  Robert Poole and Viggo Butler
  July 1, 2002
• Bad News as TSA Takes Control
  Airport operators want alternatives to TSA
  Robert Poole
  June 26, 2002
• Speed Up Airport Security, Issue I.D. Cards
  Israel uses trusted-traveler, so should US
  Robert Poole
  January 17, 2002
• It's the Mandate, Not the Money
  Focus on effective security, not just spending money
  Robert Poole
  December 14, 2001
• False Security
  Airport security bill provides costly feel-good security, unrealistic deadlines
  Robert Poole
  December 5, 2001
• For Real Airport Security
  Pre-9/11 woes still exist
  Robert Poole
  November 13, 2001
• Don't Federalize Airport Security
  Europe, Israel use private screeners, government as regulator
  Robert Poole
  October 24, 2001
• Answer to Airport Security Found in Europe
  European countries tried and abandoned federalized approach
  Robert Poole
  October 11, 2001
• Make Airports Responsible
  Fundamental problem with airport security is fragmentation
  Robert Poole
  September 28, 2001
• Don't Destroy Aviation for Illusion of Security
  Crippling airlines isn't the answer
  Robert Poole and Viggo Butler
  September 20, 2001

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