http://www.TheAviationNation.com Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:14:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A 71-year old amputee named Robert Perry, en route to Florida to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary, gets his pants pulled down by a power hungry TSO. Do we really pay this agency $5+/- billion dollars a year to behave like this? It's time to read Erich Fromm. "I have ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/24/71-year-old-amputee-bullied-by-tsa/ Here's an interesting still frame from CNN's news story of last week: TSA Launches Witch Hunt Against Federal Air Marshal Whistleblowers. This is the air marshal, in shadow, who authored an email encouraging fellow air marshals to talk to CNN about widespread agency corruption. Embarrassed, the TSA is now spending ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/22/cnn-on-tsas-witch-hunt/ Sniffix: the $6,000 per-unit bomb detection device that turns out to work on "the same principles as a Ouija board." You have to admit, even the name sounds suspicious. Michael Grabell reports for ProPublic.com.  According to the company, Sniffex could detect explosives up to a football field away by reading ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/17/bomb-dectector-bought-by-usg-was-a-32-million-scam/ Bookmark this one. The Aviation Intelligencer posts news clips under this moniker: "A video is worth a thousand TSA lies and denials."Share This Article http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/17/you-tuber-of-note-the-aviation-intelligencer/ Debra Burlingame writes about the recently dedicated 9/11 flight crew memorial -- what it looks like and what it means -- with elegant clarity.It makes perfect sense that this memorial would not be an abstract work of art with its subject matter intentionally obscured, if not impossible to discern. Instead, ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/17/burlingame-on-911-flight-crew-memorial/ Tonight on Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN will air a Special Investigative Unit report on TSA's egregious investigation of former air marshal Jeffrey Denning. The investigation stems from an email forwarded from Denning's personal computer after he left the Federal Air Marshal Service and while he was serving in Iraq. He ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/15/tsas-jeffrey-denning-witch-hunt-the-plot-thickens/ The Cincinnati field office for the Federal Air Marshal Service is now the subject of four federal lawsuits, including a salacious one. Nancy Leidner, the sole female air marshal stationed in Cincinnati, "claims that slanderous rumors were spread that she had stripped for a co-worker at his going-away party." From ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/15/federal-air-marshal-service-faces-more-charges/ Prick up your ears. And your eyes. CCTV is doing more than just watching you. It's figuring out your race. Benjamin Males, a twenty-five year-old mechanical engineer and recent graduate of London's Royal College of Art, has written software and retro-fitted a CCTV (Closed Caption TV) camera that he bought ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/14/college-grad-retrofits-cctv-camera-to-id-by-race/ This didn't take long. The TSA has launched an investigation into former Federal Air Marshal and Iraq war veteran Jeffrey Denning in an attempt to discover who leaked information about a story CNN's Drew Griffin did a few months back -- about how Air Marshals cover less than 1% of ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/14/cnn-lead-story-tsa-retailates-against-its-own/ In response to yesterday and today's missile tests by Iran, Israel has announced that it will show off its advanced reconnaissance aircraft that can spy on Iran. Unlike Iran, which tested its missiles at the Strait of Hormuz -- in the Persian Gulf -- for all to see, Israel's spy ... http://www.TheAviationNation.com/2008/07/10/israel-to-show-off-new-spy-plane/