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TSA’s Airport Security Is Always a Step Behind

How a risk-based approach would focus resources on terrorists trying to bring down planes

January 27, 2010

Adrian Moore

Steps to Fix Airport Security

January 15, 2010, 12:20pm

Robert Poole

President Obama has announced some overdue steps to make better use of intelligence information in identifying bad people—those who should at least be subject to mandatory “secondary screening” when they show up ready to fly and, in extreme cases, forbidden to fly altogether. This is a welcome step toward shifting from the post-9/11 security policy of, for the most part, treating every passenger as equally likely to be a threat and therefore subjecting everyone to ever-expanding hassles at the checkpoint. We need to go further toward focusing limited aviation security resources on bad people rather than banned objects.

Is This the Oversight for Security We Need? 88 is the Same Number as Piano Keys

January 9, 2010, 10:54pm

Shirley Ybarra

We're The TSA and You Can Count on Us!

January 7, 2010, 8:43pm

Adrian Moore

Is TSA Two-Faced on Private Airport Screening?

January 7, 2010, 8:20pm

Leonard Gilroy

Checking in on the current status of the TSA's Screening Partnership Program, a program that allows airports to opt-out of TSA-provided screening and contract with private security firms to provide passenger and baggage screening services.

Obama Settles for a Field Goal on National Security

January 7, 2010, 7:55pm

Adrian Moore

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