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TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that TSA special agents have served subpoenas to travel bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott demanding that they reveal who leaked a TSA directive outlining new screening measures that went into effect the same day as the Detroit airliner incident. Frischling said he met with two TSA special agents for about three hours and was forced to hand over his laptop computer after the agents threatened to interfere with his contract to write a blog for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines if he didn't cooperate and provide the name of the person who leaked the memo outlining new security measures that would be apparent to the traveling public. 'It literally showed up in my box,' Frischling told The Associated Press. 'I do not know who it came from.' Frischling says he provided the agents a signed statement to that effect. The leaked directive included measures such as screening at boarding gates, patting down the upper legs and torso, physically inspecting all travelers' belongings, looking carefully at syringes with powders and liquids, requiring that passengers remain in their seats one hour before landing, and disabling all onboard communications systems, including what is provided by the airline. In a December 29 posting on his blog, Elliott said he had told the TSA agents at his house that he would call his lawyer and get back to them."
The next phase in the TSA idiocracy will require passengers to perform a #1 (pee) and a #2 (poop), with proof, before boarding a flight to prevent potential liquids and solids of terror being brought on board.
How do you secretly MAKE people submit to new body searches
By telling them afterwards, "This is our little secret..."
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The terrorists won. And won big!
You mean the TSA?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Bush's years were a slow slide into an insecure, financially teetering country. Why do you expect the climb out of that mess to be quick and be dependent on one man? Electing Obama was a precondition of improving on things, not a magical wand to roll back the clock before Bush.
Obama is also held back by the democrats, the "lesser evil" party. It is an extreme outcome of the first past the post electoral system that the system tends to converge on two parties and the two parties remain similar in a lot of respects, eliminating voter choice. Sure you're free to vote for a third party, but the third party faces a very steep uphill fight to gain any traction at all.
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The next phase in the TSA idiocracy will require passengers to perform a #1 (pee) and a #2 (poop), with proof, before boarding a flight to prevent potential liquids and solids of terror being brought on board.
This will dovetail nicely with the current policy. This way, you won't need to go to the bathroom in the last hour of the flight. Its a win-win!
Wow. I can't believe how blind I've been. Bush wasn't a fascist ruler or a clueless moron, he was a GENIUS dedicated to keeping America safe.
Thank God Obama hasn't been restoring those dangerous freedoms, or this attack might have succeeded!
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and some ...other fluids...
Good. They can do my colonoscopy while they're at it. Save me the bother and expense.
Merge preventitive healthcare and transportation security into one department. Progress as promised!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Based on my experience with the TSA, they would require you to go through another security check point before going through the metal detectors and xrays. The plan is fool proof!
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She couldn't lead Tiger Woods to a free weekend at a whorehouse!
She tried, but he ended up driving his car into a tree.
Said, "It's just like dice but it's got more sides And it tells me who lives and who dies"
"check for abuses?"
and you'll do WHAT, exactly, if you find government abuses?
nothing. sit down, shut up, keep watching your american idol and playing the latest video console games.
shuddup. the man is giving you new orders.
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