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- 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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