How many congressional committees can dance on DHS?
A startling article buried in Government Executive shines a bright light on one of the major problems facing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is just as if Gulliver was alive and struggling in Lilliput tied down by a thousand threads of swarming Lilliputians.
TSA’s watchlist pain in the rear end
Though we have written about the philosophical reasons for opening our transportation watchlist so that people can find out why they have been placed on the list, the process is a pain in the a**. Everyone seems to be passing the buck. The system needs fixin’ — now. Congress is finally getting rattled.
How to make us love Electronic Travel Authorizations
I have European friends who will not travel to the United States. Oh, and now there’s a new online questionnaire that must be filled out. Here’s how to make them love the government’s new Electronic Travel Authorizations.
Uh-oh! Big Brother just got bigger
Last summer I warned America should be concerned with new homeland security regulations because they were creating a secret watch list of passenger information. Now, with these new regulations vetted and barely protested, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is starting to do what it promised: share the data with other governments.
New ID plan could ease burden
Air travelers who have a “Ted Kennedy problem,” that is they have names similar to those on terror watch lists, may be spared the extra security screening under a new plan.
Airline fingerprinting? Get real.
The Department of Homeland Security, after failing to figure out a system for controlling departures of foreigners, has dropped it in the lap of the airlines.
No passport required, yet
U.S. citizens won’t need a passport to cross over land into Canada or Mexico until the middle of next year, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday.
Airlines protest fingerprint plan
U.S. airlines are protesting a plan that would require them to take fingerprints of foreign travelers as they fly out of the country because doing so could create massive lines, reports USA Today.
Real ID squabbles continue
Homeland Security officials on Monday again prodded states to adopt standards for driver’s licenses as described by the federal Real ID Act. Four states — Maine, Montana, New Hampshire and South Carolina — have yet to seek an extension.