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TSA: November 2010

Amid Growing Backlash, TSA Tries To Keep It Light ... With Cranberry Sauce Warnings

Rachel Slajda | November 24, 2010, 9:55AM

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Well, here we are, the biggest travel day of the year and the Transportation Security Administration is up to its ears in outrage over its new security procedures. (Would you prefer us to take a nude photo or grope you, ma'am?) But it still has its most important duty:

Making you laugh.

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Topics: Homeland Security, TSA

Muslims

Is TSA Exempting Women In Hijabs From Controversial Pat-Downs?

Rachel Slajda | November 22, 2010, 10:03AM

Contrary to reports burning up the right-wing media that Muslim women would get a free pass, the Transportation Security Administration isn't exempting anyone from those new intensive airport pat-downs.

Recent stories on Glenn Beck's blog The Blaze, Fox News and elsewhere suggested that the TSA would only pat down the head and neck of Muslim women who objected to backscatter X-ray machines.