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While a few days old now, this news on TSA theft comes out of Milwaukee where a TSA employee was caught red-handed and arrested for guess what - stealing. Apparently times must have gotten hard for the 26-year-old woman, an employee for the ...

While waiting in line, just about everyone bitches and moans about the airport security screening process. But of the over 500 million fliers this year, only 12,000 have filed official complaints with the Transportation Security Administration. The ...

The Transportation Security Administration is in the news a bit too much with stories of their staff stealing from our luggage. The problems at JFK airport were so serious, that the TSA and Delta Airlines worked together to try and nab the crooks in ...

After years of harassing passengers and forcing us to remove our notebooks from their bags, the TSA has come to their senses and informed notebook bag makers that they would be relaxing the rules. The new regulations allow some notebooks to remain ...

Screening airline passengers in a wheelchair has often been a bit of a hot topic. For some reason, people get wound up when they see the TSA searching every corner of a wheelchair, as if disabled people should automatically be trusted and allowed to ...

It may appear that we tend to pick on the TSA a lot here on Gadling, but the agency is just a never ending source of stuff for us to write about. The latest incident involving the people that run airport security comes from Northwest Florida Regional ...

On Friday, a blogger reported a harrowing tale that would make any parent furious with the TSA. She claims that, while going through security, she was detained because her son's pacifier clip set off the metal detector. When she was pulled aside for ...

After watching the TSA video of the mother blogger who claimed in a post on her blog "My Bottle's Up" that a TSA agent temporarily took her baby son out of her sight during the security screening process at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport, I ...

Despite all the mocking of the TSA, I do need to compliment them on how they try and educate the traveling public on how to deal with their (often silly) rules. As we approach the busiest travel season of the year, the TSA has taken the time to ...

This is pretty damn impressive - GE is showing off a demo video of their newest luggage scanning equipment. Unlike current systems that present the screener with a grainy 2D image, the GE "CTX 9800 DSi" is able to grab images from all angles, and ...

Two baggage handlers at JFK airport, a 51-year-old worker and his 39-year-old supervisor, have been charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property, according to MSNBC. The thieves haven't been slowly pilfering individual luggage, ...

Yesterday I wrote about a CNN video that documented an undercover Transportation Security Administration official making it past security with a fake bomb. After a lot of comments in reference to that post, I got the general sense that the recent ...

Starting this week, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is placing "Got feedback?" stickers on screening equipment of 5 major US airports. The stickers should serve to drive traffic to TSA's blog: www.tsa.gov/blog and encourage travelers ...

tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.gadling.com/2009/10/07/tsa-misses-another-forgotten-loaded-gun/'; tweetmeme_source = 'Gadling'; Apparently all the security equipment in the world can't fix stupidity and poor screening. A transfer passenger was ...

The TSA has made quite a name for itself when it comes to making stupid decisions. Whether it is forcing a mom to drink her own breast milk, or claiming a thin laptop could be a dangerous weapon, when the TSA screws up, they tend to screw up quite ...