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Posted by: athomas
Very quietly and with little fanfare, the obtrusive, expensive, and ineffective full-body "naked x-ray" machines are going away.

Deployed in force after the failed underwear bomber of December 2009, the machines were a knee-jerk overreaction then; and another example of TSA overreach now.

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Posted by: athomas
Based upon bad performance last year at Newark International, 40 TSA screeners have been on the verge of getting fired.

It speaks poorly that it has taken a year to get to this point. And, demonstrates the difficulty of making any substantive changes with the Agency.

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Posted by: athomas
It seems more and more passengers are feigning disabilities so that they go in a wheelchair through airport security.

Flight attendants are noticing a rise in persons who board planes first from a wheelchair; and then, "miraculously" walk off the plane with no problems upon arrival, rather than wait to be the last off the plane.

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