Blog Post Archives

The archive index on our page isn't the most user friendly, so I've added all of the posts here (sorted newest to oldest) and will continue to update the list as new posts go live. I'll also add an "Blog Post Archives" hyperlink to the side bar. ~ Blogger Bob

2/4/2010 TSA Haiti Evacuation Effort: A Federal Security Director's Perspective View
2/2/2010 Orlando Officer Arrested View
1/27/2010 What’s Wrong With This Picture? View
1/22/2010 Can TSA Copy Your Laptop Hard Drive and Search Your Files? View
1/21/2010 What Happened In Philadelphia? View
1/15/2010 There Are No Children on the No Fly or Selectee Lists View
1/15/2010 Help for Haiti: Learn What You Can Do View
1/13/2010 Advanced Imaging Technology: Storing, Exporting and Printing of Images View
1/8/10 Incident on Flight 253 and TSA’s Role in International Security View
12/26/2009 DHS Statement on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 View
12/24/2009 Happy Holidays 2009 View
12/09/09 Update On Standard Operating Procedures View
12/08/09 TSA Response to Leaked Standard Operating Procedures View
12/01/09 What Was She Thinking? A True Thanksgiving Tale View
11/20/2009 Gobble, Gobble: TSA Helpful Holiday Travel Tips View
11/16/2009 Holiday Travel Refresher: What if I Lose or Forget My ID? View
11/11/2009 Veterans Day: Thank You View
11/10/2009 TSA Stops Medical Supplies for Cape Verde? View
11/7/2009 Response to: “Oops: Backscatter X-ray machines tear apart DNA" View
11/03/2009 Response to "TSA Takes Big Gulp over Britney" View
10/23/2009 Response to "Bag Check" Cartoon View
10/22/2009 Response to "My Daughter, the Terrorist View
10/21/2009 Why We Screen Wheelchairs Part II View
10/16/2009 Response to "TSA Agents Took My Son" View
10/14/2009 Grenades: A Refresher Course on Checkpoint Etiquette View
10/7/2009 Dakota to Chicago Via Virginia View
10/6/2009 TSA to Receive $355 Million for Airport Security Projects View
10/2/2009 Did Newark’s Mayor Really Add Conan O’Brien to the No Fly List? View
9/30/2009 Law Enforcement Officers Flying Armed View
9/25/2009 Combining Security & Convenience: A Balancing Act View
9/25/2009 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Phase III View
9/22/2009 TSA Paperless Boarding Pass at 4 More Airports View
9/21/2009 What happens to your prohibited items? View
9/18/09 Paperless Boarding Pass Now at 30 Airports View
9/11/2009 Remembering 9-11 View
9/10/2009 TSA Blog: 1,000,000 Hits! View
9/8/2009 New Procedures for Traveling with Powders View
9/2/2009 Traveling in the Key of Security: Musical Instruments & TSA View
8/27/2009 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Phase II View
8/18/2009 Imaging Technolgy: The Bigger Picture View
8/12/2009 Secure Flight Q&A II View
8/10/2009 ExpressJet Incident in Rochester View
8/5/2009 New Imaging Technology at Cleveland Hopkins Airport View
8/3/2009 Got Feedback: Happy Birthday View
7/31/2009 The Quadrennial Homeland Security Review and You View
7/29/2009 Can I Take my Hand Grenade on the Plane? View
7/24/2009 TSA Wants You! Send Us Your Top 5 Questions View
7/24/2009 TSA Blog Podcast With Airplane Geeks View
7/15/2009 Secure Flight Update View
7/14/2009 TSA Bomb Appraisal Officer View
7/2/2009 Can I Take My Fireworks on a Plane? View
7/1/2009 You're Fired! But not yet... View
7/1/2009 Clear: What Gives? View
6/22/2009 St. Louis Incident Update View
6/18/2009 TSA Paperless Boarding Pass Pilot Expanding View
6/10/2009 Camping, Hunting & Fishing Gear On a Plane View
6/5/2009 Is TSA Really Taking Fingerprints of Passengers??? View
6/2/2009 Secure Flight Q & A View
5/22/2009 Millimeter Wave Whole Body Imager Photos View
5/21/2009 Explosive Trace Detection View
5/19/2009 Will Children be Screened by Whole Body Imagers? View
5/18/2009 CNN Article: Airport security bares all, or does it? View
5/15/2009 What's in a Name? View
5/14/2009 Shoes on the X-ray belt, or in a bin??? View
5/9/2009 TSA Urban Legends View
5/1/2009 What Does A Terrorist Look Like? View
4/29/2009 BWI Checkpoint Rollout Anniversary (And More...) View
4/27/2009 Dishing the Dirt View
4/23/2009 See SPO. See SPO Screen. Screen, SPO, Screen! View
4/21/2009 Missing Crematory Remains View
4/15/2009 TWIC Casts a Security Net Over Ports View
4/14/2009 Traveling With Large Amounts of Cash View
4/10/2009 What to Know Before You Go View
4/9/2009 Two Scabies Cases Reported at Boston Logan International View
4/8/2009 Welcome New Blog Team Members View
4/7/2009 TSA Customer Support Manager View
4/3/2009 Incident at St. Louis International Airport View
3/31/2009 Can I Take Photos at the Checkpoint and Airport? View
3/27/2009 Blogger Paul's Visit to the TSIF View
3/25/2009 Traveling With Homemade Gadgets View
3/20/2009 Gate Screening View
3/17/2009 Traveling 101 for Diabetics View
3/12/2009 An Interview with Blogger Bob View
3/10/2009 Smooth... View
3/5/2009 A Day In The Life Of: Transportation Security Inspector View
3/2/2009 Frozen Monkey Heads & Other Fun Stuff View
2/25/2009 3 oz or 3.4 oz? What gives??? View
2/20/2009 Pilot Program Tests Millimeter Wave View
2/18/2009 Why We Do What We Do: Shift Briefs View
2/9/2009 Why We Do What We Do: Screening People in Wheelchairs View
1/30/2009 Welcoming the New Secretary View
1/22/2009 Vlogging With Blogger Bob View
1/19/2009 Administrator Kip Hawley's Final TSA Blog Post View
1/14/2009 The Ad Council: A Final Post From Ellen Howe View
1/9/2009 Comment Policy Refresher View
1/8/2009 TSA’s Work Abroad View
1/6/2009 Formalde-hype View
12/31/2008 Ring in the New Year, Not the Metal Detector View
12/22/2008 TSA on 60 Minutes View
12/19/2008 TSA Outside of the Airport View
12/16/2008 Artful Concealment? View
12/9/2008 In-Line Baggage Screening View
12/3/2008 On the Other Side of the Line View
11/28/2008 Thanksgiving Holiday Airport Traffic Decreased Nationwide View
11/26/2008 Just Back from BWI - A Thanksgiving Checkpoint Report View
11/26/2008 Easy as Pie View
11/25/2008 Blogger Roundtable at TSA HQ View
11/24/2008 Thanksgiving Travel Projected to Decrease this Year View
11/19/2008 Why? View
11/13/2008 FAMS Director Comments on USA Today Story View
11/10/2008 Family/Special Needs Lanes Coming to All Airports View
11/5/2008 Paperless Boarding Pass Testimonial View
11/4/2008 Blogger Paul's Intro View
10/24/2008 The Path Forward on Liquids View
10/21/2008 TSA’s Take on the Atlantic Article View
10/14/2008 From Obscurity to Oprah View
10/8/2008 Zero Tolerance View
10/7/2008 Message In a Carry-On View
10/3/2008 Technology Aims to Address Existing Liquid Threat View
10/1/2008 Pilots for Pilots View
9/23/2008 Black Diamond Update View
9/16/2008 Bar-Coded Boarding Passes View
9/11/2008 Seven Years Later View
9/8/2008 An Update on Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bags View
9/5/2008 More on Passive Millimeter Wave Technology View
8/28/2008 New Security Technologies Make Airport Debut View
8/20/2008 Information on the Chicago Aircraft Inspections View
8/20/2008 Covert Testing Results Critical to Security View
8/15/2008 Checkpoint Friendly Bag View
8/13/2008 You won’t be put on a TSA “List” if you forget Your ID View
8/11/2008 Furthering the Dialogue on IDs View
8/6/2008 Encryption Is the Issue In Case of Missing Laptop View
8/4/2008 Answers to Your Top 10 Questions View
8/1/2008 "Got Feedback?" View
7/30/2008 Leave your shoes on? View
7/23/2008 Pay For Performance; Good For Security View
7/18/2008 Calling All Lurkers View
7/14/2008 Myth Buster: Watch List One Million People Strong View
7/11/2008 $30,000.00 Watch Returned to Passenger View
7/10/2008 Shocking, but False View
7/7/2008 The evolution of the Bag: Going "Checkpoint Friendly" View
7/3/2008 Yet Another ID Post...With Some Answers to Your Questions View
7/2/2008 ID Q&A View
6/27/2008 ID Update and Word on the Blog View
6/23/2008 New ID Requirements: The First 48 View
6/20/2008 New ID Requirements Begin Tomorrow View
6/16/2008 The Evolution Continues View
6/13/2008 Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? View
6/11/2008 Why is ID Important for Security? View
6/5/2008 A Day in the Life of Checkpoint Evolution at BWI View
6/3/2008 Is this really a better checkpoint? View
5/30/2008 Why there are so many different lines? View
5/27/2008 Which is it: Millimeter Wave or Backscatter? View
5/23/2008 Friday Afternoon Cartoons View
5/19/2008 The Science Behind 3-1-1 View
5/16/2008 UK Liquid Explosives Trial View
5/12/2008 Checkpoint Lines - What Do You Think? View
5/9/2008 You asked for it...You got it, Millimeter Wave images... View
5/7/2008 What’s the Best Way to Screen Airport Employees? View
5/5/2008 So What Exactly Happens To All Of That Stuff? View
5/2/2008 Duty Free Debunked View
5/2/2008 TSO Gun Incident View
4/28/2008 Checkpoint Evolution Up and Running at BWI View
4/25/2008 The TSA Puppy Program View
4/24/2008 Safety & Privacy Concerns Regarding the Millimeter Wave View
4/17/2008 Catch a Wave and Avoid a Pat Down View
4/15/2008 First Significant Deployment of Aviation Security View
4/11/2008 Passenger Feedback Used in Checkpoint Evolution View
4/3/2008 Checkpoint Evolution: Passenger Engagement View
4/1/2008 Behavior Detection Officers Lead to Arrest in Orlando View
3/30/2008 Checkpoint Changes Coming View
3/28/2008 TSA and Piercings View
3/25/2008 Rumor Alert- Shortage Of Federal Air Marshals? View
3/24/2008 Layers of Security View
3/20/2008 Update: Bob Screens the Apple MacBook Air View
3/18/2008 Diamonds Are a Passenger’s Best Friend (Diamond Lanes) View
3/17/2008 How We Do What We Do: Baggage Screening View
3/16/2008 Rumor Alert: Conflict of Interest at TSA? View
3/14/2008 Some of the Hardest Working Dogs in the Nation View
3/11/2008 Apple MacBook Airs are Cleared for Takeoff View
3/4/2008 How Intelligence Drives Operations at TSA View
3/4/2008 When Security Officers Find Illegal Items at the Checkpoint View
2/29/2008 The Truth Behind the Title: Behavior Detection Officer View
2/28/2008 Alien Flight School Program: "9/11 Redux?" View
2/27/2008 Welcome to the Delete-O-Meter View
2/25/2008 Zip Lane View
2/23/2008 Saturday Morning Strange But True... View
2/21/2008 And Now, a Word from Our Lawyers… View
2/20/2008 Update on Black Diamond Pilot in Salt Lake City - ... View
2/16/2008 What is Your Lane? Go at Your Own Pace in Salt Lake View
2/15/2008 The TSA, Our Officers, The Public and Theft View
2/13/2008 What It Takes to be a Transportation Security Officer View
2/11/2008 Additional Screening for People with Hip Replacements View
2/10/2008 A Few Thoughts on Consistency and Where We're Going View
2/8/2008 RUMOR ALERT! LAPTOPS View
2/8/2008 Why We Screen Veterans and Active Members of the Military View
2/6/2008 HOORAY BLOGGERS! View
2/4/2008 More on the Liquid Rules: Why We Do the Things We Do View
2/1/2008 Questions We Hear Everyday View
1/31/2008 Wow! What a Response View
1/31/2008 Lighters, Nail Clippers and Lithium Batteries View
1/31/2008 Shoes View
1/30/2008 Welcome View

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Liquids, Part 1 View
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