Doing Away With Federal Screeners: Dulles and Baltimore-Washington International airports may bring back private screeners, sending federal security personnel from the Transportation Security Administration packing. The Post reports that while nothing has been settled, Dulles and BWI are considering taking advantage of a TSA program to bring private screeners back to approved airports. Taxi Strike Causes Blood to Boil: The sudden 12-hour taxi strike did what it was supposed to do, annoy people enough to…

A tip from a neighbor has placed Arlington resident Nancy Swift under the eye of the federal government. The school teacher found her home and work visited by groups of federal agents last summer, apparently after a neighbor called authorities to report a tenant of her home, a young Middle Eastern resident, had friends over to visit. The same neighbor also calls authorities when her grass is too long. Now Swift and her former housemate…

Terror Alerts ‘Strain’ Local Police: Elevated terror alerts are draining the mind, bodies and souls of local police. And they’re all dealing with limited financial resources. “With alerts that last days and months, every police chief in America is now being faced with a real dilemma with limited resources,” Paul Garten, a supervisory special agent for Washington’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, tells the Post. WMATA Seeks Cushion: The AP reports that certain members of WMATA’s…