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BLACKBURN: Dressing for excess at the TSA

By Marsha Blackburn

** 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 fails as undercover inspector sneaks mock bomb in Newark Airport — twice

By Cheryl K. Chumley - 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)

Ex-TSA head: Let passengers carry on machetes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - 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)

Janet Napolitano blames long airport lines on sequester

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Transportation Security Administration officers (in blue uniforms) screen airline passengers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

TSA apologizes for detaining 3-year-old disabled girl

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this 2011 file photo, passenger Donna Pederson (left) of Atlanta chats with Transportation Security Administration officer Myra Watts after going through a new expedited security line at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. (Associated Press)

TSA kept $531,395 in passenger change in 2012

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Kanye West, Kim Kardashian bypass security at JFK

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

** FILE ** Transportation Security Administration chief John S. Pistole. (Associated Press)

EEOC launches probe of TSA ‘hostile work environment’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Transportation Security Administration employee Anthony Brock (left) demonstrates a new full-body scanner with TSA employee Andres Lozano at San Diego's Lindbergh Field on Sept. 1, 2010. The American Civil Liberties Union has denounced the machines as a "virtual strip search." (Associated Press/San Diego Union Tribune)

TSA to scrap full-body ‘naked’ X-ray scanners

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Transportation Security Administration employee Anthony Brock (left) demonstrates a new full-body scanner with TSA employee Andres Lozano at San Diego's Lindbergh Field on Sept. 1, 2010. The American Civil Liberties Union has denounced the machines as a "virtual strip search." (Associated Press/San Diego Union Tribune)

TSA to remove controversial X-ray scanners

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** FILE ** Piers Morgan, host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," leaves the CNN building in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Obama online petition site: Direct democracy or empty gesture?

By Patrick Hruby - The Washington Times

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EDITORIAL: Unhappy holiday travels

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Illustration by Donna Grethen

EDITORIAL: TSA grabs union contract

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

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ROGERS: A smarter, leaner approach to homeland security

By Rep. Mike Rogers

Authorities: Hornets exec faces gun charge in NJ

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

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HANDRAHAN: Executive branch porn problem

By Lori Handrahan

** FILE ** TSA agents check passenger identification at a security gate on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Airport screeners get union rights for first time

By Sam Hananel - Associated Press

Illustration by Donna Grethen

EDITORIAL: TSA defies the courts

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

**FILE** Rep. Mike Rogers, Alabama Republican (Associated Press)

Americans on no-fly list allowed to learn to fly

By Eileen Sullivan - Associated Press

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An air traveler is patted down by a TSA agent at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Experts say reforms in TSA's airport-screening policies are needed, though they cautioned the agency to be careful not to make the policies too lenient.

Relaxing of airport screening regimen coming in fits, starts

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times