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Just how unprepared is the FAA?

by Jeff Price | Sep 29, 2014 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs

On 9/11 the FAA was caught completely off-guard as terrorists took over four aircraft and pulled of the most tragic and devastating attack using aviation in the history of the world. As an agency, the FAA was never in the intelligence loop, did not foresee the...

Syria and Electronic Device Bombs

by Jeff Price | Sep 25, 2014 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs

  As part of the airstrikes into Syria against ISIL the United States also decided to hit some old Al Qaeda friends – apparently these folks were planning to put bombs in electronic devices and smuggle them onto airplanes. Here’s the story along with a short...

Missing Planes

by Jeff Price | Sep 10, 2014 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs

A recent report in USA Today heightened awareness of the possible theft and use of commercial airliners to attack the United States or other targets.  This was followed up with another incident of a general aviation aircraft owned by Larry Glazer, who is prominent in...

This one time, at band camp…

by Jeff Price | Jul 30, 2014 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success

If you want an audience to stop and listen with rapt attention, tell them a story. But not just any story. Remember the character Michelle, played by Alyson Hannigan, in the American Pie movies and her signature line, “this one time, at band camp..?” Out...

MH 17 was shot down: who do we see about that?

by Jeff Price | Jul 25, 2014 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs

Of all the tragedies in a war, the most unfortunate is the loss of innocent lives. We see the human drama played out nightly in the conflicts between Russian separatists in the Ukraine, and elements of Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip, not to...
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Beyond the Checkpoint: Shifting the Risk in TSA’s New Gold+ Initiative

by Jeff Price | June 1, 2026 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs, The Role of Government | 0 Comments

The Transportation Security Administration is moving forward with its new "TSA Gold+" program, an operational shift...
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A year later, the bill proposing to abolish the TSA is sitting in committee taking a very long nap. This is the way Congress quietly disposes of ideas it doesn’t want to touch (S.1180 – Abolish TSA Act of 2025 has been in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation since March 27). The bill raises an important question: if the TSA were dismantled, what would replace it? The blog article below, written last year, still offers some useful perspective as you consider your own position on the issue.

https://leadingedgestrategies.com/the-unseen-shield-what-we-lose-if-we-dismantle-the-tsa/

#TSA #airportsecurity

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