Steven L. Basha, Esq.
December 10, 2017
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con·stit·u·en·cy: A body of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body.
Official Transportation Security Administration--Timeline of the agency HERE
Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British man arrested as the prime suspect who attempted to detonate explosives packed into the shoes he was wearing, while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001.
TSA expands Federal Flight Deck Officer program to include cargo pilots, volunteers can apply on-line
TSA works with the FAA and air carriers to reinforce cockpits doors on commercial aircraft in order to protect from intrusion, small-arms fire and fragmentation devices such as grenades.
A Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team, sometimes Visible Intermodal Protection and Response (VIPR, or VIPER) is a Transportation Security Administration program. Various government sources have differing descriptions of VIPR's exact mission. It is specifically authorized by 6 U.S.C. § 1112 which says that the program is to "augment the security of any mode of transportation at any location within the United States".
The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives, carried on board airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada, disguised as soft drinks.
Canine Teams TSA deploys proprietary canine teams to aid in the screening of 100 percent air cargo loaded on U.S. passenger aircraft.
December 2009 Underwear Bomber Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula extremist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, while aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, tries to detonate an improvised explosive device concealed in his underwear.
October 2010 Cargo Planes Bomb Plot British and United Arab Emirates authorities intercept two IEDs concealed in printer cartridges aboard two separate cargo planes from Yemen. Authorities determine the IEDs were intended to detonate during flights to the United States.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula releases an issue of Inspire magazine, which discusses aviation as a target of attack and details how to build nonmetallic IEDs, which airlines to attack and where to place the devices on a plane.
January 2015 Concealing IEDs Terrorists become increasingly interested in circumventing airport security screening by concealing improvised explosive devices inside commercial electronics, physical areas of the body, cargo, shoes/clothing and cosmetics/liquids.
The bulk of what TSA does is airport security.
Executive (leader) of TSA is David Peter Pekoske (born c. 1955) is a retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral who currently serves as the seventh Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration. He concluded his 33 years of active military service in 2010 as the 26th Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard. The 7th administrator.
If you see something, say something campaign.
Suspicious activity is any observed behavior that could indicate terrorism or terrorism-related crime. This includes, but is not limited to:
The Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) program is run by the Federal Air Marshal Service with the aim of training volunteer pilots of commercial airline flights to carry firearms for the purpose of defending the flight deck against criminal activity.
To be an officer able to carry a firearm on planes, one must be a federal law enforcement officer or a full-time municipal, county, state, tribal or territorial law enforcement officer who is a direct government agency employee. ... Have completed the TSA Law Enforcement Officer Flying Armed Training Course.
TSA's Canine Training Center (CTC) and National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program (NEDCTP) TSA procures, trains, and deploys both TSA-led and state and local law enforcement-led canine teams to secure our Nation's transportation systems through effective explosives detection, visible deterrence, and timely, mobile response to support rail stations, airports, passenger terminals, seaports, surface carriers, and other facilities.
Homeland Security Committee You Tube page-- Official Webpage
PDF--BORDER SECURITY FOR AMERICA ACT--Liklihood of being enacted-HERE
Terror Threat Snapshot since 9/11-- Click on map to search the interactive map.
Application of Naturalization PDF-- Official Website -- Requirements PDF
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