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2009-12-31 Home Front: WoT

TSA subpoenas travel bloggers, demands names of sources

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Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-31 02:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The bloggers should all point to a mole deep within TSA named Strep Throat.

Posted by ed 2009-12-31 07:54|| 2009-12-31 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 That or give the http link to the TSA's top secret procedures manual.

Posted by ed 2009-12-31 07:56|| 2009-12-31 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Claim it was CAIR.

I suspect that all new procedures get reviewed and approved by CAIR first before implementation. -- You know to make sure the Terrorist's sensibilities are not offended.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-12-31 08:50|| 2009-12-31 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 This relates to non-classified Sensitive Security Information (SSI), but when the New York Slimes, Washington Composite or Congressional aids reveal Secret and Top Secret info, then the Government is paralyzed since issuing a subpoena might inflict a "chilling affect" on media or hurt a political agenda. This country is a joke and in trouble.

Posted by Hammerhead 2009-12-31 09:04|| 2009-12-31 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 knee-jerk response by an embarrassed and incompetent org. The one-hour no-blankie or magazine or book on the lap rule is something an idiot would devise to look "like we're doing something".

Fire Napolitano Now!

Posted by Frank G 2009-12-31 09:15|| 2009-12-31 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Here is a fresh example of my above comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31terror.html?_r=1&ref=us

Posted by HammerHead 2009-12-31 10:17|| 2009-12-31 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 The one-hour no-blankie or magazine or book on the lap rule

Unlike the TSA flavor, even your plain garden variety of idiot would realize how stupid this is.

As security guy Bruce Schneier has pointed out, the only things that have made air travel safer are reinforced cockpit doors and passengers realizing they need to fight back.

Posted by SteveS 2009-12-31 12:12|| 2009-12-31 12:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Shades of Iowahawk's satire. From "Man, Do I hate Holiday Travel":

by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

...The US State Department agent asked to see my passport, and the concierge explained that I was a Somali refugee. So she looks at her computer screen and says, "um, I'm afraid there's a problem, this passenger's name is on a watch list." Oh, great. Looks like my dad is playing Mr. Buzzkill again, just because I took that semester off from Oxford to go backpacking in Yemen. So I showed her my official State Department visa.

So I'm like, "honey, do I look like I'm a US military veteran?"

"No."

"Do I look like I'm some sort of right wing anti-tax teabagger?"

"No."

"Do I look like anybody else on the DHS terrorism danger list?"

"No, but..."

"Then I suggest that unless you want a nasty anti-discrimination lawsuit on your hands, you'd best give me an aisle seat. With extended legroom."

Posted by lex 2009-12-31 12:29|| 2009-12-31 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 The leak (Strep Throat, LOL!) was from the NYT. You will have to talk to 'Throat to find out who the leaker is. I only have second hand information. Hearsay in a court of law. Waterboard me and I will tell you anything you want.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Kotzebue, AK 2009-12-31 13:26|| 2009-12-31 13:26|| Front Page Top

#10 The US is soooo close to being a dictatorship.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-12-31 13:40|| 2009-12-31 13:40|| Front Page Top

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