Posted on 11/23/2010 1:20:46 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-sanctioned security details.
New heightened security procedures by the Transportation Security Administration, which require either a scan by a full-body detector or an intimate personal pat-down, have spurred passenger outrage in the lead-up to the Thanksgiving holiday airport crush.
The senior government officials can opt out of such measures if they fly accompanied by government security guards approved by the TSA. The agency would not explain why it makes these exceptions, but many of the exempted government officials have gone through several levels of security clearances, including FBI background checks.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Let’s see. Does the TSA undergo FBI screening? Why do the pilots have to go through TSA screening but not “special” government officials?
You win.
Enhanced pat-downs and latex gloves how often do screeners change them?"
TSA Rolls Out Ad on Pat-Downs (Your taxpayer money for Obama's propaganda)"
Mans urostomy bag damaged during TSA pat-down; forced to fly with urine on him"
Some notes on x-ray backscatter imaging"
TSA Does a Pat Down on a 3 Year Old Boy (Video)"
Video Update: Cancer Patient Describes Urine-Drenching TSA Pat-Down"
EDITORIAL: TSA is a joke to al Qaeda, too--Groping nuns, kids and seniors won't thwart terrorists"
White House: Terrorists Have Discussed Use of "Anal Cavity" to Conceal Explosives"
TSA Agent Takes Child From Parent"
Jindal blasts Obama administration, calls TSA searches excessive"
Obama: TSA's Nude Screening a Necessary Inconvenience
TSA Forces 12 Year-Old Girl Traveling Without Parents Through Naked Scanner"
Enhanced pat down leaves Grand Rapids airline passenger in tears"
TSA should actually be called T&A [sdcraigo]"
House Republicans Clobber TSA, Insider Deals On Nudie Scanners"
House Republicans Clobber TSA, Insider Deals On Nudie Scanners"
SHOCK VIDEO: MASSIVE LINES ALREADY AT OHARE CHECKPOINT..."
Obama stands by controversial air security screening methods"
Refuse to be groped or scanned - face $11,000 fine and/or arrest"
Obama Gives a Pass: TSA Wont Touch Muslims Junk"
Obama Gives a Pass: TSA Wont Touch Muslims Junk"
Terrorists hiding in hijabsMuslims seek special treatment to elude TSA groping"
Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?"
Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?"
Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?"
Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?"
TSA Forces 12 Year-Old Girl Traveling Without Parents Through Naked Scanner"
Enhanced pat down leaves Grand Rapids airline passenger in tears"
TSA should actually be called T&A [sdcraigo]"
100 Naked Scanner Images Made Public"
CAIR Tells Muslim Women Wearing Hijabs to Allow ONLY Head and Neck Pat Downs"
Governor Palin Calls Out the TSA for Extreme Political Correctness"
HILLARY: NO BODY SEARCH FOR ME..."
Body scanner saved 35,000 naked images"
Pilot to Hannity: The TSA wanted to see my penis"
Mom upset about 12-yr old daughters full body security scan experience"
Obama: The rights of Muslim suicide bombers come before the rights of US citizens"
Senators and TSA Defend Love Pats at Airports"
Soros Scores on Scanners [Invested with psychic precision]"
Terahertz/Submillimeter Activity Radiation (TSA-Rays) will melt your DNA, physicists find."
DHS Head Chertoff Using His Position To Profit For Company Hes Employed By"
video: Ted Poe (R-TX) ties Michael Chertoff to TSA abuse"
Airport Scanners Sparking Litigation and Protests."
Woman says her Lambert security screening was sexual assault"
Homeland Security chairman to TSA: 'Reconsider' pat-downs"
Is the TSA allowing convicted rapists to perform pat-down searches?"
This is the picture they release.
ADULTS ONLY: Click on it to see the inverse.
NOTICE: It is too graphic for a thread.
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Napolitano Considering Allowing Muslim Women to Pat Themselves Down at Airports"
Young Boy Strip Searched By TSA"
Qaeda's surgical strike: Breast & butt bombs [UNDETECTABLE by TSA]"
Gov Sarah Palin tweets to TSA: Profile!"
How to Think About the Tiny Cancer Risk Posed by Airport Scanners"
Schneier on Security - TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash"
TSA Creeps Force Cancer Survivor to Expose Prosthetic Breast"
"TSA officer charged in boy's kidnap attempt"
"TSA airport screener arrested for child porn also worked at Catholic school; Questions remain"
(How-many-tsa-sex-offendersDHS doc on TSA screenings from 2004)"
"A Review of Background Checks for Federal Passenger and Baggage Screeners at Airports" (pdf file)"
"Thread dedicated to TSA Criminal Activity"
"Former Orlando TSA officer gets probation in sex-slave case"
"TSA airport screener arrested for child porn also worked at Catholic school; Questions remain"
"TSA Agent Arrested at LAX (TSA using drugs at a party)"
"TSA Agent Accused of Harboring Fugitive"
"TSA officer at DIA arrested in connection with luring child online"
"TSA screener arrested for drug theft at Little Rock airport"
"TSA Worker Arrested On Drug, Gun Charges"
" Memos Detail TSA Officer's Cocaine Pranks Worker joked about finding drugs in luggage"
"TSA screener arrested for beating co-worker"
"TSA Agent: "I am god, I'm in charge""
"TSA officer among duo arrested for stealing from fliers' luggage at JFK"
"TSA- Screener Charged With Raping 14 Year Old Girl"
"TSA Agent arrested for sex crimes www.privateofficer.com"
"TSA Employee Steals Over $200,000 in Electronics"
"TSA Forces Woman To Remove Nipple Rings
Compliments of BossLady Friday, November 19, 2010"
Sadeq Naji Ahmed - the Transportation Security Administration
hired him as an airport screener after the Air Force kicked him out for making
statements supporting Osama bin Laden and praising the 9/11 attacks.
Ahmed worked almost a year before enough people at the TSA found that
he previously had his security clearance revoked and had to let him go."
"Are External USB Drives a Target for Espionage?"""
Boy..this ought to go over well with ‘the folks’...rotflol!
Ping!
Don't forget, don-o: some animals are more equal than others.
All righty. If the F is NOT the well known f word and U is not You, is it:
Forget Underwear, Barack Obama
Forge Unicycles, Barack Obama
Fold Umbrellas, Barack Obama
Flee Unicorns, Barack Obama
Is this kinda close to those heart felt sentiments you are getting at?
They honestly believe they’re better than the rest of us.
FUBAR was a universally accepted and revered term amongst the troops when I was in the service. It meant, “Fouled Up Beyond All Repair!” We’ve just realigned it a bit to fit for Barack Obama & Co. FUBO!!
Tyranny.
Outrageous.
Where is the breaking point? Is this it?
Are you ready?
Yeah, I have FBI background checks done on me every once in a while, that should not make me ‘special’ but it does: I have the privilege of getting grabbed at will!
Unbelievable.
Do you wake up some mornings and wonder just where it is that you live?
I sure do. Every damned day!
No. This is not the breaking point. The breaking point will involve cable television, cell phones, and internet access. If one of those three goes - then it's game on.
Well, nothing about this regime shocks me anymore. I am thoroughly disgusted and outraged, but not shocked. I have no plans to fly anywhere soon, but if I did, I would be “on fire.”
You can bet the Internet will be shut down in the U.S. when the NWO opens the shooting war here. Thewir goons in unions and greenie freaks will sacrifice themselves ... and I intend to bag a few before they silence me.
You can bet the Internet will be shut down in the U.S. when the NWO opens the shooting war here. Their goons in unions and greenie freaks will sacrifice themselves ... and I intend to bag a few before they silence me.
Insulin pumps are not supposed to be exposed to x-rays, and even if a pump-wearing flier does wear their pump for a full body scan, the invasive pat down will be conducted by people who dont know that the insulin pump is a life saving device.
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CONNECTED POLS GET BIG PAYOFF We keep hearing full body scanners are necessary because of terrorist threats. But it turns out the people who make the things played a role as well. USA TODAY found firms with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the past five years and hired several high-profile former government officials to advance their causes in Washington.
Scanner firms hired lobbyists include Linda Daschle, a former federal aviation official and wife of Tom Daschle, former Senate Majority Leader. L-3 Communications, which has sold $39.7 million of the scanners, spent $4.3 million trying to influence Congress. Rapiscan Systems spent $271,500 lobbying. It also hired former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff who has been a big proponent of scanners. Rapiscan made $41.2 million from the government.
Ok. So I still don’t get it then.
Fouled Up Barack Obama?
Fouled Up By Obama?
Fouled Up Beyond Oregon?
Waiting for one of those three does not sound like a plan. Marxists work incrementally, but this TSA crap is pushing it.
Full body scans are used to detect and now curtail movements of cash (cash belts) and other items that aren’t ordinarily placed in carry-on luggage.
The scans and pat-downs (gropes) have little, if anything, to do with trying to catch Islamic terrorists.
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