TSA Celebrates 20 Years Since First Assuming Security At BWI

20 years ago, the Transportation Security Administration first started screening airline passengers in the months after 9/11 at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The agency celebrated the anniversary at the airport Friday.  BWI was the first airport in the nation to be federalized, launched under TSA security oversight, just months after the terrorist attacks. “20 years ago is when TSA came here and started the rollout of what that would look like across the nation,” said Jil Thrash, Assistant Federal Security Director for Inspections at BWI.