TSA’s Forced Indignities Don’t Make Us Safer: Jeffrey Goldberg

July 11 (Bloomberg) -- And now, two stories about thethrill of American air travel today. The subject of our firststory is 24-year-old Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, a Nigerian-American who was once enrolled as an engineering student at theUniversity of Michigan. The subject of our second story is 95-year-old Lena Reppert, a terminally ill cancer patient.

On June 24, Noibi boarded a Los Angeles-bound VirginAmerica flight at New York’s Kennedy International Airport, FBIofficials said, by using someone else’s boarding pass. Dayslater, he unsuccessfully attempted to board a Delta Air Linesflight from Los Angeles to Atlanta using a boarding pass for aflight that departed the day before, also in someone else’sname. When police searched Noibi’s bag, they discovered 10 otherboarding passes, none of which bore his name.