Posted on 12/10/2010 8:06:00 AM PST by jazminerose
Ever since new airport security procedures went into effect in late October, the Transportation Security Administration has been at the center of controversy. The combination of enhanced image screening with invasive patdowns for those who opt out has rankled civil liberties advocates and some of the flying public. John Pistole, the head of the TSA, is a 26-year veteran of the FBI -- an expert in counterterrorism and for six years the bureau's deputy director. As TSA administrator since July, he finds himself having to defend the new measures. James Fallows and Jeffrey Goldberg spoke with Pistole on Monday. An edited version of the interview is below; their posts about the conversation are here and here.
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TSA won’t catch anyone either. What a waste of money. OMG.
Political correctness is killing this nation and our troops.
Nadil Hassan should never have been permitted to massacre 40 people on US soil, with the military’s fore knowledge that he’d made death threats against “the infidels” and had communicated with Al Qaeda overseas.
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