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Terror Crackdown ... On Bloggers
IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 12/30/2009 | Ed Carson

Posted on 12/30/2009 5:28:02 PM PST by Slyscribe

Edited on 12/30/2009 5:30:12 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.


(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; airlinesecurity; bho44; bhogwot; bloggers; dhs; flight253; frischling; security; terror; tsa
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To: Cindy

Not what I meant although as I reread my commentary it would appear what I said was as you took it. NO.

I meant that what you posted appeared to clarify that it was in fact Janet Napolitano’s own words that the subpoenaed bloggers relayed, therefore it appears the TSA is like a dog chasing its tail.

Hopefully that clears the matter, and thank you for your postings. Excellent work.


42 posted on 12/30/2009 6:35:39 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Cindy

I didn’t bother to check it at the time, but I seem to remember someone saying at the time that Napolitano had posted the travel new rules on her government web site.


43 posted on 12/30/2009 6:39:21 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Slyscribe

I had a client who returned from Peru with some gold and emeralds on his person, all on the up-and-up, he wasn’t smuggling. TSA in Florida had him step to one side and gave him the search just short of full body cavity. There were three TSA people around him.
By the time he got organized he noticed that some of the jewelry was missing. It wasn’t confiscated: TSA simply said he was mistaken, though he showed them the receipts, and they refused to release a copy of the security videoso his congress critter got involved.
Life in these United States is becoming too much like the movie `Brazil.’ Something’s got to give.


44 posted on 12/30/2009 6:43:10 PM PST by tumblindice (I call: 88 million armed citizens. What have you got? "Special agents"?)
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To: Slyscribe

What is so friekin’ top secret about these procedures? Anyone who traveled would see what they were doing. It’s not like they said - “Ok - everybody whip out your xenon x-ray vision megatron anti-matter screener (see attached schematic)”. Maybe they are just ashamed that our procedures are so pathetic.


45 posted on 12/30/2009 6:45:03 PM PST by phelix
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To: Cindy

Glad I could make you laugh. It’s the least I can do in return for all the effort you put in to posting articles and links here, and starting threads for us.

Thanks.


46 posted on 12/30/2009 6:45:55 PM PST by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: Cindy

Too late. They’re at your back door already :-)


47 posted on 12/30/2009 6:46:31 PM PST by kristinn (A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Sometimes stupid people really got to get Hurt Bad before they learn their lesson about how Fragile Our Freedoms are and how easily they can be destroyed and how much the DEMORATS HATE OUR FREEDOMS and the AMERICA WE LOVE DEARLY!!
Lots of American Citizens are now Waking Up to How Good President George W. Bush was and how terrible this Pile of Cow Poop we are presently cursed with really is and how Incompetent and Dangerous BOZO actually has made Himself!
Mayor Daley of Chicago just called out OBOZO’S DANGEROUS ACTIONS to the World in a Washington Post Editorial!! WOW!!


48 posted on 12/30/2009 6:47:25 PM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: kristinn

Smiling at you...

Nah...the alphas already have my phone number, etc.


49 posted on 12/30/2009 6:49:35 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Slyscribe

As it turns out,the Soviet Union DIDN’T collapse....it just moved west!


50 posted on 12/30/2009 6:50:53 PM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: Slyscribe

How’s that hope and change working out for all you assholes who voted for this biggest con man in American history.


51 posted on 12/30/2009 6:51:09 PM PST by RacerX1128
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To: Cindy; All
I'm curious.
Seriously.
Do you happen to know if the ACLU has stepped forward to assist these bloggers?
52 posted on 12/30/2009 6:57:22 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: onyx; Bob J
UNBELIEVABLE.

Have you heard about this?

53 posted on 12/30/2009 7:01:21 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: 6SJ7; Slyscribe
[Frischling wrote on his blog that he decided to publish the TSA directive to clear up much of the confusion and speculation that was circulating among the public about changes that were being instituted in airport security procedures]
 
Hmmm.  Ya s'pose he might of cleared up a bit of "confusion and speculation" for potential terrorists as well; potential terrorists who already train to game the TSA systems?
 
Would that be a good thing?

54 posted on 12/30/2009 7:03:00 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: paulycy

We have had two terrorist attacks by known jihadists who were permitted by our government the opportunity to attack Americans: Fort Hood Hansan and the airplane panty bomber.

So now Bam is cracking down...on who? American bloggers who are not terrorists.

This is the way of our “security.” Americans are harassed and lose freedom. Known jihadists are permitted the freedom to kill us in the name of political correctness!

Dang I am sick and tired of this.


55 posted on 12/30/2009 7:09:41 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Slyscribe

If the directive wasn’t supposed to be released, it’s the fault of the government employee who leaked it. The Federal government leaks like crazy, in any case.


57 posted on 12/30/2009 7:30:21 PM PST by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: hennie pennie

I don’t know.
You can always check their web site.

www.aclu.org


58 posted on 12/30/2009 7:38:32 PM PST by Cindy
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To: 6SJ7
{snicker} does TSA Special Agent Enright have to license that hairpiece with the local Humane Society?  What does it eat?
 
It's almost funny they had to go to Wall-Mart to buy a drive to image the laptop with, and then couldn't get it to work.   almost funny.
 
Could it be the Emperor's New Transparent DHS Clothes left them a bit naked and unprepared?
 
And why wasn't the FBI investigating - I thought the whole point of the DHS was to eliminate all that inter-agency rivalry bullshyte?  Guess not.

59 posted on 12/30/2009 7:46:27 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: Slyscribe

This has to be a ruse.


60 posted on 12/30/2009 7:57:46 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Freedom Watch: fight for freedom with everything you have.)
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