Mike Lee introduces bill to abolish the TSA

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Mike Lee introduces bill to abolish the TSA ​

The Utah senator has long called for the elimination of the federal agency, calling it invasive to travelers’ privacy​

Mike Lee pushes to abolish the TSA with new legislation

The Utah senator has long called for the elimination of the federal agency, calling it invasive to travelers’ privacy.

www.deseret.com

27 Mar 2025 ~~ By Cami Mondeaux

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is renewing efforts to fully eliminate the Transportation Security Administration, accusing the federal agency of inefficiency and invading travelers’ privacy.
Lee, along with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced the Abolish the TSA Act on Thursday, which would dissolve the TSA and establish a separate Office of Aviation Security Oversight to manage airport security. The office would operate completely under the Federal Aviation Administration and transfer security activities and equipment to private companies instead.

“The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives,” Lee said in a statement. “Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security Oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end. American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees.”​

~Snip~
Senators argue TSA is “not equipped” to manage fast-moving threats posed to aviation transportation, claiming the agency has become oversized into a “bureaucratic leviathan.”
The pair cited a 2015 report that found TSA agents missed 95% of mock explosive and banned weapons during checkpoint screenings and that agents failed 67 out of 70 tests conducted by undercover investigators.
Instead, the senators say that a switch to private security with limited government oversight would increase efficiency and safety, pointing to a high percentage of European airports that utilize privatized security screenings.
~Snip~
Under TSA guidelines, travelers may be subject to a pat-down if the screening technology is set off, which includes “inspection of the head, neck, arms, torso, legs, and feet.” That inspection may also include sensitive areas, according to the TSA website.
Lee has repeatedly criticized those practices, calling them “needlessly slow” and invasive.


Commentary:
Certainly, we want certain and need security to be done, but it should be done without waste and unnecessary invasions of privacy. Who cares what the agency is called?
I am years over 80 and when I have to fly, I still get “chosen” for special screening...still, much of the time, I have to take off my shoes, unbuckle my leg-brace uncrate computer from bag, take off belt belt..and ALWAYS get shouted at and treated like a resident of a maximum security prison. I yearn for a small return to the great days of flying.

 

[IM2]

So? Just because you're old doesn't mean you can't be a terrorist or killer.

This is just another dumb bill by people trying destroy this country.

 

[evenflow1969]

So? Just because you're old doesn't mean you can't be a terrorist or killer.

This is just another dumb bill by people trying destroy this country.

Evidently they want more planes falling from the sky?

 

[IM2]

Evidently they want more planes falling from the sky?

Yep.

 

[TimFitz]

Mike Lee introduces bill to abolish the TSA ​

The Utah senator has long called for the elimination of the federal agency, calling it invasive to travelers’ privacy​

Mike Lee pushes to abolish the TSA with new legislation

The Utah senator has long called for the elimination of the federal agency, calling it invasive to travelers’ privacy.

www.deseret.com

27 Mar 2025 ~~ By Cami Mondeaux

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is renewing efforts to fully eliminate the Transportation Security Administration, accusing the federal agency of inefficiency and invading travelers’ privacy.
Lee, along with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced the Abolish the TSA Act on Thursday, which would dissolve the TSA and establish a separate Office of Aviation Security Oversight to manage airport security. The office would operate completely under the Federal Aviation Administration and transfer security activities and equipment to private companies instead.

“The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives,” Lee said in a statement. “Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security Oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end. American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees.”​

~Snip~
Senators argue TSA is “not equipped” to manage fast-moving threats posed to aviation transportation, claiming the agency has become oversized into a “bureaucratic leviathan.”
The pair cited a 2015 report that found TSA agents missed 95% of mock explosive and banned weapons during checkpoint screenings and that agents failed 67 out of 70 tests conducted by undercover investigators.
Instead, the senators say that a switch to private security with limited government oversight would increase efficiency and safety, pointing to a high percentage of European airports that utilize privatized security screenings.
~Snip~
Under TSA guidelines, travelers may be subject to a pat-down if the screening technology is set off, which includes “inspection of the head, neck, arms, torso, legs, and feet.” That inspection may also include sensitive areas, according to the TSA website.
Lee has repeatedly criticized those practices, calling them “needlessly slow” and invasive.


Commentary:
Certainly, we want certain and need security to be done, but it should be done without waste and unnecessary invasions of privacy. Who cares what the agency is called?
I am years over 80 and when I have to fly, I still get “chosen” for special screening...still, much of the time, I have to take off my shoes, unbuckle my leg-brace uncrate computer from bag, take off belt belt..and ALWAYS get shouted at and treated like a resident of a maximum security prison. I yearn for a small return to the great days of flying.

So do everyone else.

I would like to return to the good Ol days, but I know better than to expect it.

The idea of turning over airport security to a private company with limited oversight and supervision is a recipe for disaster.

 

[TimFitz]

I’m sure they already have a ‘private se unity contractor” in mind.

It’s the way these guys operate.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Mike Lee introduces bill to abolish the TSA ​

The Utah senator has long called for the elimination of the federal agency, calling it invasive to travelers’ privacy​

Mike Lee pushes to abolish the TSA with new legislation

The Utah senator has long called for the elimination of the federal agency, calling it invasive to travelers’ privacy.

www.deseret.com

27 Mar 2025 ~~ By Cami Mondeaux

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is renewing efforts to fully eliminate the Transportation Security Administration, accusing the federal agency of inefficiency and invading travelers’ privacy.
Lee, along with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced the Abolish the TSA Act on Thursday, which would dissolve the TSA and establish a separate Office of Aviation Security Oversight to manage airport security. The office would operate completely under the Federal Aviation Administration and transfer security activities and equipment to private companies instead.

“The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives,” Lee said in a statement. “Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security Oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end. American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees.”​

~Snip~
Senators argue TSA is “not equipped” to manage fast-moving threats posed to aviation transportation, claiming the agency has become oversized into a “bureaucratic leviathan.”
The pair cited a 2015 report that found TSA agents missed 95% of mock explosive and banned weapons during checkpoint screenings and that agents failed 67 out of 70 tests conducted by undercover investigators.
Instead, the senators say that a switch to private security with limited government oversight would increase efficiency and safety, pointing to a high percentage of European airports that utilize privatized security screenings.
~Snip~
Under TSA guidelines, travelers may be subject to a pat-down if the screening technology is set off, which includes “inspection of the head, neck, arms, torso, legs, and feet.” That inspection may also include sensitive areas, according to the TSA website.
Lee has repeatedly criticized those practices, calling them “needlessly slow” and invasive.


Commentary:
Certainly, we want certain and need security to be done, but it should be done without waste and unnecessary invasions of privacy. Who cares what the agency is called?
I am years over 80 and when I have to fly, I still get “chosen” for special screening...still, much of the time, I have to take off my shoes, unbuckle my leg-brace uncrate computer from bag, take off belt belt..and ALWAYS get shouted at and treated like a resident of a maximum security prison. I yearn for a small return to the great days of flying.

What’s the fucking point of TSA when 20MM Illegals sneak in??

 

[The Duke]

Mike Lee introduces bill to abolish the TSA ​

The Utah senator has long called for the elimination of the federal agency, calling it invasive to travelers’ privacy​

Mike Lee pushes to abolish the TSA with new legislation

The Utah senator has long called for the elimination of the federal agency, calling it invasive to travelers’ privacy.

www.deseret.com

27 Mar 2025 ~~ By Cami Mondeaux

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is renewing efforts to fully eliminate the Transportation Security Administration, accusing the federal agency of inefficiency and invading travelers’ privacy.
Lee, along with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced the Abolish the TSA Act on Thursday, which would dissolve the TSA and establish a separate Office of Aviation Security Oversight to manage airport security. The office would operate completely under the Federal Aviation Administration and transfer security activities and equipment to private companies instead.

“The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives,” Lee said in a statement. “Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security Oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end. American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees.”​

~Snip~
Senators argue TSA is “not equipped” to manage fast-moving threats posed to aviation transportation, claiming the agency has become oversized into a “bureaucratic leviathan.”
The pair cited a 2015 report that found TSA agents missed 95% of mock explosive and banned weapons during checkpoint screenings and that agents failed 67 out of 70 tests conducted by undercover investigators.
Instead, the senators say that a switch to private security with limited government oversight would increase efficiency and safety, pointing to a high percentage of European airports that utilize privatized security screenings.
~Snip~
Under TSA guidelines, travelers may be subject to a pat-down if the screening technology is set off, which includes “inspection of the head, neck, arms, torso, legs, and feet.” That inspection may also include sensitive areas, according to the TSA website.
Lee has repeatedly criticized those practices, calling them “needlessly slow” and invasive.


Commentary:
Certainly, we want certain and need security to be done, but it should be done without waste and unnecessary invasions of privacy. Who cares what the agency is called?
I am years over 80 and when I have to fly, I still get “chosen” for special screening...still, much of the time, I have to take off my shoes, unbuckle my leg-brace uncrate computer from bag, take off belt belt..and ALWAYS get shouted at and treated like a resident of a maximum security prison. I yearn for a small return to the great days of flying.

Yes! 1000X yes, use air marshals, but fuck the TSA.

 

[The Duke]

I’m sure they already have a ‘private se unity contractor” in mind.

It’s the way these guys operate.

Probably BlackRock. Not that you'd know anything, vapid shill.

 

[TimFitz]

Probably BlackRock. Not that you'd know anything, vapid shill.

I was thinking Blackwater (or whatever Eric Prince calls it these days)

Having mercenaries do airport se unity is just the sort of thing the Trump crowd would go for.

 

[The Duke]

I was thinking Blackwater (or whatever Eric Prince calls it these days)

Having mercenaries do airport se unity is just the sort of thing the Trump crowd would go for.

Airport security was always always private before 9/11.
They failed, (can't really blame them), The FBI failed, The CIA failed, The NSA failed,
who knows how many other already established government agencies failed to
stop 9/11 from happening.
So what does W. Bush do? Expands the Federal government by 2/3 and shit, creates a bunch of new stuff instead of fixing what's broken already. Starts the TSA and DHS.
And airplane passengers have been getting groped and molestered ever since 2001, but I ain't one of them.
I will not fly until that goes away. Fuck that.

 

[initforme]

Airport security was always always private before 9/11.
They failed, (can't really blame them), The FBI failed, The CIA failed, The NSA failed,
who knows how many other already established government agencies failed to
stop 9/11 from happening.
So what does W. Bush do? Expands the Federal government by 2/3 and shit, creates a bunch of new stuff instead of fixing what's broken already. Starts the TSA and DHS.
And airplane passengers have been getting groped and molestered ever since 2001, but I ain't one of them.
I will not fly until that goes away. Fuck that.

Yep, we shouldn't check people correct? Expanding the govt by 2/3 means making it smaller. Scale factors always multiply. For many $ is always the biggest factor. Safety is secondary? Wow oh wow.

 

[toobfreak]

Mike Lee introduces bill to abolish the TSA​

Works for me. I would never submit to the antics they put you through to fly. It is a violation of my civil rights. And AFAIK, they don't do shit for catching and stopping terrorists. They shake down little kids and old, sick cancer patients.

Before he died, I had a buddy who traveled a great deal in his work. He traveled so much, he qualified for some special deal where he bypassed regular screenings boarding planes and got placed right on board.

Apparently he had been to Israel many times and once told me how superior their terrorist detection training was. Unlike the TSA which treats everyone as guilty until you prove yourself innocent, apparently the IDF get special intensive training on what to really look for in stopping creeps, and they target only those individuals, apparently with great success.

Imagine that: The IDF realizes that 99% of all terrorists actually fit a profile, something the woke TSA would never do as their DEI training tells them that common sense and efficiency violate discrimination laws.

 

[initforme]

Works for me. I would never submit to the antics they put you through to fly. It is a violation of my civil rights. And AFAIK, they don't do shit for catching and stopping terrorists. They shake down little kids and old, sick cancer patients.

Before he died, I had a buddy who traveled a great deal in his work. He traveled so much, he qualified for some special deal where he bypassed regular screenings boarding planes and got placed right on board.

Apparently he had been to Israel many times and once told me how superior their terrorist detection training was. Unlike the TSA which treats everyone as guilty until you prove yourself innocent, apparently the IDF get special intensive training on what to really look for in stopping creeps, and they target only those individuals, apparently with great success.

Imagine that: The IDF realizes that 99% of all terrorists actually fit a profile, something the woke TSA would never do as their DEI training tells them that common sense and efficiency violate discrimination laws.

I support the tsa. Don't want safety then don't fly. Spend your time here stuck in the USA.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Evidently they want more planes falling from the sky?

Airport security did quite well before TSA.

 

[initforme]

Airport security did quite well before TSA.

Disagree. Much better now.

 

[evenflow1969]

Airport security did quite well before TSA.

Lol, how do explain 911 then. I guess you and I have a different view of doing well. Hilarious

 

[initforme]

Lol, how do explain 911 then. I guess you and I have a different view of doing well. Hilarious

If people don't want safety then don't gly. Stay stuck here. I'm all for the most stringent safety standards.

 

[TimFitz]

Probably BlackRock. Not that you'd know anything, vapid shill.

Perhaps you can explain how an investment bank is going to run airport security.

I will refrain from name calling and let the stupidity speak for itself.

 

[Care4all]

AI Overview
Before the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), airport security in the U.S. was handled by private security companies contracted by airlines or airports, and was generally less stringent than the current standards.

Here's a more detailed look at airport security before the TSA:

• Private Security: Airlines and airports themselves hired private security firms to handle screening and security operations.
• Less Stringent Screening: Security measures were less rigorous than they are today, with fewer restrictions on what passengers could bring on board.
• No TSA: The TSA was established in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, and was created by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act.
• Examples of lax security:
• After 9/11: The 9/11 attacks highlighted the weaknesses in the privatized security system, leading to the creation of the TSA and the implementation of stricter security measures.
• TSA's Role: The TSA took over all security functions at the nation's airports, increasing the number of security agents and improving their training.
• Increased Security Measures: Passenger pre-checks became standard, and the percentage of baggage screened for explosives increased.