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Bill Russell arrested for carrying gun at airport

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Ben Carson, right, speaking at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, where he burst on the national scene when he criticized Obamacare with President Obama himself seated nearby on the dais. (Courtesy of C-SPAN)

CARSON: Dr. Ben’s prescription for shutdown pain

By Ben S. Carson

Aaron Tobey. (Richmond Police)

Virginia flier sporting 4th Amendment on his chest settles airport security suit

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

RIDDELL: Rooting out federal contracting fraud

By Kelly Riddell

TSA not collecting accurate threat assessment data on job applicants

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** Rep. John L. Mica

TSA misconduct rises 26 percent in 3 years: GAO report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Donna Grethen

EDITORIAL: The price of dignity

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Janet A. Napolitano leaves a mixed legacy as secretary of homeland security. Her celebrated response to weather emergencies, for example, is balanced by the unpopular addition of strict airline security measures. (Associated Press)

Janet Napolitano’s legacy at Homeland Security goes beyond immigration reform

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

**FILE** Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano briefs reporters at the White House on Feb. 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

Janet Napolitano to resign Homeland Security post

By Stephen Dinan and Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Travelers wait in security checkpoint lines before boarding planes at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Feb. 25, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

TSA taps decorated, disabled Marine for extra scrutiny

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

BOVARD: Transportation security doesn’t include the freedom to molest

By James Bovard

**FILE** Knives of all sizes and types are piled in a box at the State of Georgia Surplus Property Division store in Tucker, Ga., on Sept. 26, 2006, and are just a few of the hundreds of items discarded at the security checkpoints of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that will be for sale at the store. (Associated Press)

TSA drops plan to allow small knives on planes

By Joan Lowy - Associated Press

The Homeland Security Department's inspector general said the Transportation Security Administration has not established any sense that agents are exercising good judgment in deciding which travelers they screen. (Associated Press)

Agents’ judgment faulted in TSA passenger screening

The Washington Times

Volunteers pass through the first full body scanner, which uses backscatter technology, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on March 10, 2010. Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the X-ray scanners will be gone by June 2013 because the company that makes them can't fix the privacy issues. (Associated Press)

TSA screenings lack objectivity, probe finds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Volunteers pass through the first full body scanner, which uses backscatter technology, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on March 10, 2010. Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the X-ray scanners will be gone by June 2013 because the company that makes them can't fix the privacy issues. (Associated Press)

TSA tells lawmakers: No more naked pictures

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Obama answers questions during his new conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on April 30, 2013. (Associated Press)

In time of sequesters, federal government posts 27,000 job openings

By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

Travelers wait in security checkpoint lines before boarding planes at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Feb. 25, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

Man stopped at Reagan airport with loaded gun

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Va. man stopped at airport with gun in carry-on

Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: TSA uniforms appropriate for mission

The Washington Times

** FILE ** Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Authorities were searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night. Flights were grounded and passengers were rescreened, an air safety official said. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

TSA says it missed bomb because it’s ‘hard to spot’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times