Legislators Considering Law Concerning Security at Diplomatic Posts
Would require the State Department to accept the lowest bid for private security contracts
Would require the State Department to accept the lowest bid for private security contracts
Nuclear stress test mistaken for terrorist menace
Along with some sports equipment
Maybe soon we'll be able to bring on liquids again
What was the excuse before the sequester?
Security theater refuses to die
They make it as unpleasant as possible
The drive toward regimented, Panopticon-style schools won't make students any more secure.
Will record intrusions or crimes against their clients
A decade of frantic overreaction and wasteful, destructive policies based on the false promise of perfect safety
A student brought in a mercury thermometer for an assignment about the periodic table and the school panicked as if he brought in plutonium
But it's for our safety, right?
Inbred aristocrats serve a good purpose after all
The intrusive TSA response is completely out of proportion to the risk
Fears it would lead to retaliation against whistle-blowers
Apparently the socialite must be a diplomat, or her house must be a diplomatic residence, which is news to most of the media
Thatcher would tidy the rooms of body guards, claims former protection officer
Jitender Kumar Mohla claimed he had infected needles and a gun onboard a flight in 2009
Took money to allow illegal drugs to pass through security
Had knives, body bags and smoke grenades in checked luggage
Was booked on a flight to Boston
Wait ... are we supposed to be upset it happened or upset that it's going to stop?
Change in law that previously only allowed "reasonable force"
These itineraries and personnel documents aren't important or anything, are they?
Job originally included pat-downs but does not any longer
The agency's busts rarely have anything to do with terrorism
She drank her water instead of letting the clowns test it
Not that the TSA changed any procedures in response
Flight from Philadelphia to Dallas surrounded by authorities over tip about liquid explosives
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