| Rumsfeld gets TSA pat-down at O'Hare airport and DOT aims to shed light on airline fees |
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Trusted soldiers... Right. That would be Major Hasan at Fort Hood? Nobody should get a pass. Nobody.Good idea - This guy represents a clear danger to America - he's proven to be more dangerous than any so-called terrorist.What all you people fail to realize is that if they fail to screen people like Rumsfeld... then the next person to blow up a plane will be a Rumsfeld.The solution is simple folks-incarcerate ALL law abiding citizens, provide all of us with room and board and pablum TV and let all the bad guys have the world. Oh sorry I forgot don''t forget internet access to newsvine so we can all properly vent.We are protected from military personnel that have weapons but need to travel through airports. As a civilian contractor for the military I witnessed the procedure; Hand your weapon to the screener, walk through the metal detector, the screener hands the weapon back to you.What I don't understand is why air travel is targeted. [Read the full article] Large pieces of hail fell for about 15 minutes at the Denver International Airport on Wednesday night, damaging 40 planes. NBC's Brian Williams reports.A hail storm that swept through the Denver area on Wednesday evening, damaging at least 40 planes at the Denver International Airport, has forced Frontier Airlines to cancel more than 60 flights on Friday and Saturday.On a statement on its website, the airline said that its operations "continue to be seriously impacted" by Wednesday's storm, which damaged 18 of the carrier's Airbus planes. The majority of those planes are still grounded and will need to be repaired before flying again. The airline said it was trying to find alternate ways of flying customers to their destinations by booking fliers on other airlines and renting aircraft from other carriers. The airline is also waiving fare differences and change fees for travelers who had tickets for Thursday or were supposed to fly Friday or Saturday. [Read the full article] In the early 1900s, railroad companies built lodge hotels to lure well-off Easterners westward, promising easy living against a stunning views. A century later, the clientele has changed, but the appeal has not.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the machines, known as Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT), were not an unconstitutional search and declined to halt their use despite TSA's failure to follow proper procedure.Privacy advocates, who have strongly opposed the use of the machines, had argued their use constituted an illegal search under the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment. They also said TSA failed to provide public notice that it was deploying them and to seek public comment."Any passenger may opt-out of AIT screening in favor of a pat-down, which allows him to decide which of the two options for detecting a concealed, nonmetallic weapon or explosive is least invasive," the three-judge panel ruled. [Read the full article] 
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