AM 1240 KLYQ » TSA http://klyq.com Hamilton's News Talk Leader Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:20:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 TSA Firing 25 Workers, but Not Because of That Horrible Security Report or All the Stealing http://klyq.com/tsa-firing-25-workers-but-not-because-of-that-horrible-security-report-or-all-the-stealing/ http://klyq.com/tsa-firing-25-workers-but-not-because-of-that-horrible-security-report-or-all-the-stealing/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:20:17 +0000 Mike Adams http://tsminteractive.com/?p=147206 According to reports from the Transportation Security Administration, the agency plans to clean a little house at the Newark International Airport by firing 25 employees and suspending 19 others for alleged misconduct.

In a seemingly related pair of stories, a recent internal TSA investigation revealed frequent security failures, while an ABC News story investigated rampant theft at the TSA.

However, both of these things have nothing to do with the 25 firings, according to the TSA.

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]]> http://klyq.com/tsa-firing-25-workers-but-not-because-of-that-horrible-security-report-or-all-the-stealing/feed/ 0 Jeff Swensen, Getty Images TSA Reveals List of Weird and Scary Items Confiscated This Year http://klyq.com/tsa-items-confiscated/ http://klyq.com/tsa-items-confiscated/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:51:28 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=133167 We all gripe about having to take our shoes off when we go through airport security, but according to a list of items confiscated this year by the TSA, footwear may be the least of its concerns.

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]]> http://klyq.com/tsa-items-confiscated/feed/ 0 Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images Airline Passengers Live Their Worst Nightmare, Thanks to a Single TSA Agent http://klyq.com/airline-passengers-tsa-agent/ http://klyq.com/airline-passengers-tsa-agent/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:23:23 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=114948 Hundreds of travelers at New York’s JFK Airport who’d already gone through security screenings were forced to do the unthinkable — get in line and do it all over again. It happened Saturday when it was discovered that one of the TSA agents didn’t know his metal detector had been unplugged all morning.

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]]> http://klyq.com/airline-passengers-tsa-agent/feed/ 0 Mario Tama, Getty Images What the TSA Confiscated in 2011 http://klyq.com/tsa-confiscated-2011/ http://klyq.com/tsa-confiscated-2011/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:56:21 +0000 Kathy Landin http://tsminteractive.com/?p=69289 We haven’t heard anything from the TSA about how many actual terrorist plots it prevented in 2011. In fact, we have no real report on how much safer it was to fly around the country in 2011 because of the efforts of our favorite, invasive security agency. What we do have, though, is a list of the ridiculous things they have taken from Americans who dare to forget what they’ve been carrying in their carry-ons.

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]]> http://klyq.com/tsa-confiscated-2011/feed/ 0 Ethan Miller, Getty Images What's TSA's Newest Flight Hazard? A Handgun-Style Handbag http://klyq.com/handgun-handbag-tsa-flight-hazard/ http://klyq.com/handgun-handbag-tsa-flight-hazard/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:30:17 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://thefw.com/?p=64996 A teenager’s western-style purse emblazoned with a handgun emblem on the front caught the attention of the Transportation Security Administration.

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