By John H Huey on Jun 29, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for 28+ years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below. _________________________________________________ It wasn’t until yesterday morning that I saw a CNN piece and read about the incident of June 18 in Ft. Walton Beach Florida involving a 95-year-old [...]
By John H Huey on Mar 5, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for 28+ years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below. _________________________________________________ I’ve been quiet on these pages the past month or so and have been busy dealing with a number of other issues but a piece in my [...]
By John H Huey on Jan 27, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for 28+ years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below. _________________________________________________ Technology being what it is these days, within an hour or two of the truly terrible Moscow bombing at Domodedovo Airport this week an associate of mine [...]
By John H Huey on Dec 31, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Last Sunday my morning routine of CNN and coffee was punctuated by a fascinating interview with DHS Secretary Napolitano where it was stated that the events of the last year have made the “Homeland” (a Bush era locution that has always had a vaguely “Wagnerian” ring to it for me) “Objectively Safer”, particularly in the [...]
By John H Huey on Nov 23, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for 28+ years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below. John’s other recent post was fascinating: “AIhmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and the Rule of Common Sense.” _________________________________________________ Believe it or not, I take absolutely no pleasure in the [...]
By John H Huey on Nov 1, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for 28+ years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below. John’s other recent post was fascinating: “AIhmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and the Rule of Common Sense.” _________________________________________________ It’s Halloween and the line “you can’t kill the boogey-man” from [...]
By John H Huey on Oct 20, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for 28+ years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below. John’s other recent post was fascinating: “AIhmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and the Rule of Common Sense.” _________________________________________________ Nothing New Under the Texas Sun: The Crisis at the Checkpoint [...]
By John H Huey on Sep 1, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below this post. _________________________________________________ Every year, as we approach the anniversary of that dreadful day in September of 2001, US and European Aviation, as well as other Western [...]
By John H Huey on Aug 4, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below this post. _________________________________________________ With the August 1 advent of the 100% screening rule for Air Cargo carried on passenger aircraft in the U.S., the public has once [...]
By John H Huey on Jun 21, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has now published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more background details about John Huey and his constructive critiques in his first post published at NoQuarterUSA.net on January 5, 2010: “From An Insider: The Need for Risk-Analysis, High-Threat Screening Lanes [...]
By John H Huey on May 21, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has now published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more background details about John Huey and his constructive critiques in his first post published at NoQuarterUSA.net on January 5, 2010: “From An Insider: The Need for Risk-Analysis, High-Threat Screening Lanes [...]
By John H Huey on May 6, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has now published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more background details about John Huey and his constructive critiques in his first post published at NoQuarterUSA.net on January 5, 2010: “From An Insider: The Need for Risk-Analysis, High-Threat Screening Lanes [...]
By John H Huey on Apr 12, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has now published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more background details about John Huey and his constructive critiques in his first post published at NoQuarterUSA.net on January 5, 2010: “From An Insider: The Need for Risk-Analysis, High-Threat Screening Lanes [...]
By John H Huey on Mar 30, 2010 in Al Qaeda, Russia, Terrorism, United Kingdom | View Comments
As a three year+ resident of Moscow (late 2005-early 2009) I could regale you with stories of endemic corruption, political murder, police state tactics, and rampant inefficiencies and disconnects of logic and common sense that are guaranteed to drive the average business person from the West completely round the bend. Not so with Moscow Metro. [...]
By John H Huey on Mar 23, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
I spent a most interesting afternoon in the Cannon House Office Building on Wednesday, March 17 attending Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee’s House Homeland Security Subcommittee Hearing on Checkpoint Security. My first revelation of the afternoon was that Whole Body Imagers (WBI’s) are now Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) systems. Why is it that the Government finds [...]