Airport security: It's not just for airports any more

[JohnRich 4]

News:

TSA screenings aren't just for airports anymore

"The Transportation Security Administration isn't just in airports anymore. TSA teams are increasingly conducting searches and screenings at train stations, subways, ferry terminals and other mass transit locations around the country.

"We are not the Airport Security Administration," said Ray Dineen, the air marshal in charge of the TSA office in Charlotte. "We take that transportation part seriously."

The TSA's 25 "viper" teams — for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response — have run more than 9,300 unannounced checkpoints and other search operations in the last year. Department of Homeland Security officials have asked Congress for funding to add 12 more teams next year..."

Full story: Los Angeles Times

I feel safer already.

[Andrewwhyte 1]

Sigh.
The terrorist are winning.

[rushmc 18]

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Sigh.
The terrorist are winning.

Yes they are
Just like the wako enviros and the PC crowd is

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[shropshire 0]

Who didn't see 'that' coming? - These folks just want to expand their industry (I'm sure there's a safety aspect ... it's not just about the cash ... no really )

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[gher 0]

I rode AMTRAK a few times in years past (post 9/11/01), and damned if you couldn't have taken a kilo of Meth and an AK-47 on board...They didn't even do metal detectors...

[popsjumper 2]

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I rode AMTRAK a few times in years past (post 9/11/01), and damned if you couldn't have taken a kilo of Meth and an AK-47 on board...They didn't even do metal detectors...

No doubt there were people who did...yet you're still alive. Imagine that!

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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