Ivan Eland

Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

TSA: Ask the Fed for Relief... From the Fed?

Posted: 08/07/2013 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/tsa-ask-the-fed-for-relie_b_3713828.html

For air travelers tired of the ever-worsening burden of airport security, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is widening to all U.S. citizens the eligibility of its prescreening process, called PreCheck. Americans, who recently have had their phone records vacuumed up by the National Security Agency spies, can now give the TSA their fingerprints, undergo government snooping into their backgrounds, and pay $85 to undergo this further erosion of their privacy -- in order to get only a minimal reprieve from the security indignities at the airport. What a deal!