More VIPR searches

This article discusses a TSA presence at a train station. "Just" dogs and geiger counters.

How you (can't) avoid the TSA

I'm not sure what to make of the last sentence:

Somehow, playing this cat-and-mouse game seems silly. Shouldn't we be welcoming the screening instead of running from it?

but the rest of this article has useful and accurate information, and I think it gives some good publicity to the cause.

Fear and Intimidation Exercise

Check out this press report from mid-June about a 5,000 square-mile TSA-led "security exercise":

The participating teams are composed of a variety of TSA assets including federal air marshals, canine teams, inspectors and bomb appraisal officers. They will be joined by state and local law enforcement officials to supplement existing resources, provide detection and response capabilities. The exercise will utilize multiple airborne assets, including Blackhawk helicopters and fixed wing aircraft as well as waterborne and surface teams.

TSA everywhere

Here's a summary of all of the places where TSA has conducted searches (with their VIPR program, in which local agencies get involved). It also links to the video below from February:

So much for the ports

Between this story about TSA/VIPR at a port in Texas and the story of British cruise passengers being harassed by US Customs in California, I'm starting to feel lucky that my cruise was comparatively benign!