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"TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner"
what bull . "get out of your wheel chair, take your diapers and panties off, GranMa. You are a threat"
TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening
"The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security. 'While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner,' the federal agency said. 'We have reviewed the cir stances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure.'"
"TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner"
what bull . "get out of your wheel chair, take your diapers and panties off, GranMa. You are a threat"
Another one:
Exclusive: Hackers unearth FBI report on ‘KopBusters’ filmmaker Barry Cooper
Computer hackers with the group 'Lulz Security" have unearthed a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) intelligence assessment of Barry Cooper, the former Texas narcotics officer who turned against the drug war and began setting up hidden camera stunts looking to catch corrupt police in the act.
The do ent, composed in Feb. 2009 by the FBI field office in El Paso, Texas, came just one month before officers in Williamson County, Texas staged a SWAT raid on his home over a Class B misdemeanor, filed after a series of stunts seeking to catch police stealing money from official evidence.
The FBI's "Situational Intelligence Report" on Cooper is marked "unclassified," and recipients were specifically instructed to take "precautions" to prevent it from falling into the media's hands. It came to light after hackers stole a trove of do ents from police in Arizona and published them online in an operation they called "Chinga La Migra" (or " the Border Patrol").
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/2...e+Raw+Story%29
And another:
Microsoft patent application opens door to spying on Skype
A U.S. patent application filed by Microsoft in 2009 specifically mentions "Skype" and "Skype-like applications" as being likely candidates for software that would give government spies easy, official access to any and all communications, public do ents show.
While back doors in software for "legal intercepts" are not uncommon in the age of mass data intercepts conducted by the National Security Agency and carried out by the major telecom providers, it provides an exclamation point to civil libertarians concerned about ongoing mass surveillance programs, and should serve as a reminder that virtually no electronic communications are truly private.
"[T]raditional techniques for silently recording telephone communication may not work correctly with [Voice-over-IP] and other network-based communication technology," the patent application notes. "As used hereafter, the term VoIP is used to refer to standard VoIP as well as any other form of packet-based communication that may be used to transmit audio over a wireless and/or wired network. For example, VoIP may include audio messages transmitted via gaming systems, instant messaging protocols that transmit audio, Skype and Skype-like applications, meeting software, video conferencing software, and the like."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/2...e+Raw+Story%29
The TSA's internal investigation found nothing improper. Next?
What if a terrorist threatens a family by telling them if they don't hide explosives in grandma's diaper, he'll kill the all?
Sounds funny but is that out of the realm of possibility? I'm not willing to take the chance that it can't happen. These terrorists will search all avenues as they the ones that they're currently taking get closed off thanks to beefed security and policing. They'll get smarter and we've got to keep our foot on the pedal.
oh man..........An agent told Weber "they felt something su ious on (her mother's) leg and they couldn't determine what it was" -- leading them to take her into a private, closed room.
Soon after, Weber said, a TSA agent came out and told her that her mother's Depend undergarment was "wet and it was firm, and they couldn't check it thoroughly."
I got to say I do feel safer. If these peeps are checking some old hags diaper for bombs (lol) they must be doing a great job checking everyone else. Again, I am on the fence with all this TSA stuff but I do feel safer.
They must be using the wrong profile.
Last time I checked, 90-yr old white women aren't jihadists.
My bad --- 95 yr old.
wtf are these people doing? Seriously?
Explosive diarrhea was the only potential explosive that 95 yr old had.
so it's 90 year old dark women that terrify you
I'm siding with Mingus. No, i don't suspect Granny either. But as Mingus mentions, we've seen the extent terrorist losers have gone to in other mudercide bombing cases. So yeah, what's their next scheme?
Interesting.
What is the age cutoff in which darker women cease to terrify you?
What if terrorist threatens them to stuff grandma's ass with explosives?
I gotta say, between media and politicians, they've done a great job at keeping you scared.
I appreciate the job these guys do, but sometimes a little common sense goes a long way.
You mean something you haven't already seen in 24?
Another tidbit I found... Haven't read the linked do ents yet, but I figured I'll pass it along...
Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers
"TSA employees at Logan International Airport believe they have identified a cancer cluster in their ranks, according to do ents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and released by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They have requested dosimetry to counter 'TSA's improperly non-monitored radiation threat.' So far, at least, they have not received it. The do ents also reveal a paper from Johns Hopkins that essentially questions whether it is even safe to stand near an operating scanner, let alone inside one. Also, the National Ins ute of Standards and Technology says that the Dept. of Homeland Security 'mischaracterized' their work by telling USA Today that NIST affirmed the safety of the scanners when in fact NIST does not do product safety testing and never tested a scanner for safety."
It's a double-edged sword.
If they say, "We're not going to inspect this woman", then automatically you can probably rule out other kinds of disabled people, children, and other cases that might cause outrage that terrorists could theoretically exploit. Also, that leads to the question of who SHOULD be inspected, because if you're not inspecting randomly, then you're profiling, which leads to all sorts of other issues.
If you do it randomly, like this, you're forced to degrade a person and make them strip down, when there's a 99.99999% chance this person isn't a terrorist.
The best answer would probably be to profile, but not be dumb enough to let the public know. That's not a "good" answer, but I'm not sure there is one.
I was going to say... don't tell me they're not profiling... or do tell me and I won't buy it
we've become such a pussified country, for lack of a better word. this whole thing is an inconvenience, not a problem. americans in general don't know what the a problem is. maybe if they stepped outside of their fantasy world and saw some real , they'd stop whining incessently about what are actually inconveniences and stop diagnosing them as problems, esp. when these inconveniences lead to a safer country.
/rant.
Couldn't agree more with the pussified part. I actually didn't grow up in America. I grew up with a military dictatorship, where you end up really understanding the true value of those little pesky civil rights such as privacy, freedom, presumption of innocence, etc. You know, the kind of things that are being taken away from under your nose right now under the guise of a security theater. Once taken, those things ain't coming back. It's probably the biggest complain I have about this administration. Not only not reversing course from the previous one, but actually entrenching the whole thing even more. This country isn't getting any safer while you have thousands every year crossing the porous border illegally. That's a real problem that a million pat downs are not going to fix.
Ultimately, I have less of a problem with TSA employees since they're just doing their job. It's the political class (as usual), dictating the policy.
/rant
i'll agree to disagree then. i won't underestimate the cunning of these jihadists.
You mean a bunch of boxcutters? When it comes to at ude like yours, the bad guys already won.
That's ok though. That's what's great about America. Everybody is en led to their opinion.
i'm a cynical, su ious person. can't say i've been ed over many times for being that way though. it's worked out well.
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