by Ned S. Levi | Feb 6, 2017
In January, several sources reported that the Trump administration was considering expanding on the Obama Administration’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) U.S. visitor examination in which they are asked to voluntarily supply their social media information....
by Ned S. Levi | Apr 11, 2011
If you’ve been following my columns over the last few years, you would have concluded that I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the U.S. national passenger rail carrier, Amtrak. I ride the rails in Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and elsewhere in their...
by Ned S. Levi | Jan 10, 2011
In order to permit you to board a plane, TSA prods, pokes, scans, wipes, and “pats.” TSA says it makes you safe. Does it? In my opinion, not really. This past week, Cuma Yasar, claiming to have a bomb, tried, but couldn’t get past the cockpit door of a Turkish...
by Ned S. Levi | Sep 14, 2009
I’m a big fan of the Harrison Ford movie, The Fugitive. During the movie, Ford faked an ID card, having stolen a real one, to get into the Cook County Hospital prosthetics department. Posing as a janitor in a stolen uniform, he obtained a list of people who had their...
