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TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-brother-tells-all dept.

wk633 writes "A report by Homeland Security Department Acting Inspector General Richard Skinner, said the agency misinformed individuals, the press and Congress in 2003 and 2004. It stopped short of saying TSA lied. Bruce Schneier does say 'the TSA lied' on his blog." Scary stuff, and yet it's even scarier how little the general public has caught on.

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  1. Sign of the times by Bad+to+the+Ben · · Score: 0, Troll

    Protesting about this would require way to much effort for Joe Sixpack. I mean, in order to write a nasty letter to Congress, he'd have to put down that beer, move his fat ass off the chair to find some paper and remember how to string together a sentence. And by then the beer will have gotten warm. Anyways, we're talking about a department that thinks nail clippers represent a serious threat to human life. Don't expect intelligent management decisions from these people.

  2. Re:even scarier by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem isn't with the complexity of the instructions, it is with our litigious happy society where a woman can spill coffee on her crotch becuase she didn't know (if she actually didn't know, then thats even worse and speaks about a major educational system crisis here) it was hot and could scald her.

  3. The horror!! by TooMuchEspressoGuy · · Score: 0, Troll
    Surely this must be a prelude to the severe curtailing of our freedoms, needless wars against foreign countries, and yet more lies from the government that is supposed to serve us! Surely an Orwellian future is upon us! Beware, for Big Brother is wa-

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  4. Re:Some people might call me un-American, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    In reality, they don't care that we're free; they have other reasons for hating us.

    You totally don't understand why the terrorists hate us. Yes, support of Israel and having troops have something to do with it, but the major reason is that we don't worship the same way they do. We are FREE (yes, you heard it right) to worship any way we please. Their brand of radical Islamic religion can't survive in a free society and they know it. If we all converted overnight to Osama's radical form of Islam, he wouldn't have a bone to pick with us.

    Until we face the truth (that this is a religious war) we have no chance of winning.

  5. TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data by Secrity · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why would anybody be surprised that an American agency lied to American taxpayers?