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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Screeners Find Gun Parts Hidden in Laptops at JFK
This just in from a law enforcement source on the east coast. On October 29, 2007, TSA screeners at John F. Kennedy Airport found eight slide mechanisms for semi-automatic weapons "artfully concealed" inside the battery compartments of one passenger's four laptop computers.
In the midst of the TSA cheating scandal, did anyone bother to give […]
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Congress Investigating TSA’s Cheating Chiefs
Congress — in the form of The House Homeland Security Security Committee — will hold hearings next week, seeking answers as to why TSA Chiefs encouraged inter-agency cheating on tests designed to see if security procedures are working. TSA Chief Administrator Kip Hawley and TSA Chief of Security Mike Restovich will be called to testify. […]