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TSA backs off subpoenas in search for leaker of widely known security directive
Associated Press ^ | Dec.31, 2009 | LARRY MARGASAK

Posted on 12/31/2009 6:18:23 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday dropped its subpoenas it had issued to two Internet writers in its effort to find the leaker of an airline security directive.

The subpoenas were criticized by a leading journalism organization.

The TSA said the investigation is "nearing a successful conclusion and the subpoenas are no longer in effect."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodhs; bhotsa; flight253; frischling; nevermind

1 posted on 12/31/2009 6:18:25 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s past time we all realized that the TSA has nothing to do with security.


2 posted on 12/31/2009 6:22:02 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Velveeta; JustPiper

*ping*


3 posted on 12/31/2009 6:26:20 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: elkfersupper

TSA, another bloated government bureaucracy that serves absolutely no purpose. I will amend that … serves to give those who would otherwise be on welfare, a high paying job with benefits for doing nothing. IMHO


4 posted on 12/31/2009 6:29:15 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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To: elkfersupper
I liked their original moniker:

Federal Aviation Transportation Administrative Security Service.

FATASS

Lasted one day. Big FR thread way back then.

5 posted on 12/31/2009 6:32:03 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Janet probably left a copy on a park bench when she met up with .........


6 posted on 12/31/2009 6:33:05 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: elkfersupper
It’s past time we all realized that the TSA has nothing to do with security.

I think most of us have known from the outset it's just another Democrat jobs program. We'll see the total effect if Southers is appointed Administrator and sticks to his first priority of unionizing TSA. Imagine being late for a flight and having your TSA guardian glance at her watch and say "Sorry, break time. This gate is now closed."

7 posted on 12/31/2009 6:48:04 PM PST by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: elkfersupper

It has everything to do with National Socialism.


8 posted on 12/31/2009 6:48:49 PM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: Deaf Smith
I once worked in a shopped called "Systems and Methods" or S and M.

No one laughed ~ not ever!

9 posted on 12/31/2009 6:58:40 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Deaf Smith
Heading for God's country shortly.

Spending the weekend with a woman I've loved for 35 years.

Parmer County.

Happy New Year!

10 posted on 12/31/2009 7:04:50 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Since they got to look cool carrying a firearm, feel important boasting about getting a warrant (demonstrating their ‘authoritay’), and made a copy of the Blogger’s hardrive, I’d guess they have everything they wanted.... for today.


11 posted on 12/31/2009 7:16:35 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is the second time in three weeks they have let secret info out to the public.


12 posted on 12/31/2009 7:46:23 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

I think what you have is a growing number of discontents...who believed they hired up with a 4-star operation, and now question the whole “feeling” that they had back in November of 2008.

The team brought in thousands of players to the DC area...and they are now finding that the team isn’t as happy as they used to be. Let’s be honest here too...every single administration has run into this problem...and it’s not new. The Bush administration eventually got to it’s point of discontent.


13 posted on 01/01/2010 1:05:12 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No surprise there. The only thing the sour grapes subpoenas point out is that the TSA carelessly published an important security document that was rather easily picked up by two people without designated access to it. They did the country a favor, but TSA wants them punished/hassled because their action pointed out TSA’s latest failure.


14 posted on 01/01/2010 1:41:17 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Not only did the objections come from a journalistic source, I believe someone may have interjected a, “The TSA acted stupidly...”


15 posted on 01/01/2010 6:38:09 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: Free ThinkerNY

America’s latter-day Gestapo labors under a major handicap, namely the light-speed spread of information whenever they try to disappear anyone. Once again, the fascist Obamunists folded faster than Superman on laundry day.


16 posted on 01/01/2010 4:35:01 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
17 posted on 01/01/2010 8:09:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year!)
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