Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Restovich Consulting LLC Scandal Hits a TSA Nerve
In Top TSA Officials in Cheating Scandal Also Ran Private Consulting Firm, I reveal more federal rule breaking and corruption at the highest level of TSA. Not a pretty picture over there at the agency tasked with keeping you safe when you fly.
Most top-salaried government officials remain anonymous suits behind the scenes — unless […]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Man With Two Backpacks Runs onto Heathrow Runway
A man carrying two backpacks scaled a perimeter fence at London's Heathrow Airport earlier today, "sprinted onto the runway" and ran towards a plane triggering a major security alert. He was tackled by airport police and arrested. Agence France-Presse has more:
"A man ran towards an Emirates flight," a police spokeswoman told AFP, as television […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
100 FAA Badges Missing
NBC News reports that more than 100 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) credentials are missing.
[Former commercial pilot] and aviation expert Denny Kelly says "the FAA badge of all the badges is probably the most dangerous of any other."
An NBC5 investigation reveals over the past 5 years, 112 FAA aviation inspector badges have been stolen or lost.
Denny […]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Foreign Flight School Fiasco
This morning on FOX News radio, The Guetzloe Report, I discussed my recent piece for Pajamas Media, Flight School Fiasco: No Lessons Learned After 9/11.
Most remember the shocking revelation.
Six months after Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi piloted hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) notified a Venice, Florida flight […]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Congress Wants Answers from TSA, Hearings Set
Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Rep. James Oberstar, wants answers regarding TSA's Alien Flight School Program. Congressional hearings are set for next week and are reported to include questions on "other significant security lapses."
From ABC's Brian Ross & The Investigative Team:
The failure of the federal government to follow new laws […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Senator Schumer: TSA is Inadequate
Senator Charles Schumer held a press conference on Sunday in response to ABC's expose on the TSA's alien flight school program, calling the TSA's enforcement capabilities "spotty and inadequate." The New York Senator urged an immediate audit of the agency's effectiveness in conducting Congressionally-mandated background checks on foreign nationals who want to train as pilots. […]