Posted on 12/30/2009 7:21:27 PM PST by tobyhill
As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.
TSA special agents served subpoenas to travel bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott, demanding that they reveal who leaked the security directive to them. The government says the directive was not supposed to be disclosed to the public.
Frischling said he met with two TSA special agents Tuesday night at his Connecticut home for about three hours and again on Wednesday morning when he was forced to hand over his lap top computer. Frischling said 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.
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That’s the ticket. Come down like a ton of bricks on a private citizen blogger, but let all the malfeasance, incompetence and corruption in our so-called “security” agencies go unpunished. Makes perfect sense to me.
I deal with the TSA all the time in my job (cargo).
You do not want to ‘eff with them...
The whole point of the first amendment was to protect people who speak out about government. Government activities are not supposed to be top secret and this wasn’t.
Ping
Here’s the TSA directive:
http://www.elliott.org/blog/full-text-of-sd-1544-09-06-authorizing-pat-downs-physical-inspection/
Here’s Elliott’s subpoena:
Im sceered. This is the same gooberment bunch that provided their entire SECURITY MANUAL ON THE INTERNET.
What do you figure jury—?
Well, great, that should be of great comfort to those that don’t know that, until now.
Gee, I see a lot of change ahead.
30 days ago CBS news published the TSA manual and the TSA said “sorry its old material” The TSA should have goon after CBS like they are these travel bloggers. Just like the Feds to go after the inocents and not the terrorists. Now we see the problem with American Justice.
Let me talk to myself for a minute:
I lived in a land that despised private ownership.
I lived in a land that attempted to control every move a citizen made.
I lived in a land that made people disappear.
I lived in land that had, lets say, a population of xxx.
I lived in a land that would destroy any signs of ‘not-government-approved’ messages.
Guess what, that land still has a population of xxx.
That land still procreates, but people bail out as fast as they can.
WE, here, in the USA, are heading that way!
Oh, and BTW, that land did, and still does, disarm their people, because it works!
WAKE UP AMERICA, BEFORE IT BECOMES AMERIKA.
The guy put an SD (Security Directive) on the Internet? No wonder they’re pissed.
The TSA (actually all government agencies..) have pretty strict rules about how that information is supposed to be handled.
If they find the guy that gave them this information he will definately be prosecuted...
If Bush was in office and this stuff was going on, the narrative at the Slimes and other media outlets would be a WHOLE lot different.
I had no idea the TSA had any authority outside of an airport!?
“I had no idea the TSA had any authority outside of an airport!?”
Well, unions have/will have a lot more ‘authority’ once fully entrenched, as planned.
Ports, rail, bus lines, etc. Yep.
Ahem. Bush created the TSA.
This is why you (general, not specific) should never, ever back an expansion of governmental power no matter who creates the agency or what rationale is given for creating it.
Not sure we can tie this one to Obamsky. Not yet.
Noted.
JJ
Hillary always said, “I do not recall.” Works for me and is more polite than “You can go straigt to hell.”
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