TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
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TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
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#2I am outraged.
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#3The term "security theater" has been tossed around a lot, but I think it's pretty clearly coming to that. Asking the mainstream media not to cover something like this is completely indefensible from a security standpoint - what, terrorists only learn about security flaws from TV?. It's pretty patently only about keeping their budget.
Also, just going to throw this out there, but it is fairly possible that the email is totally fake.
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#4The term "security theater" has been tossed around a lot, but I think it's pretty clearly coming to that. Asking the mainstream media not to cover something like this is completely indefensible from a security standpoint - what, terrorists only learn about security flaws from TV?. It's pretty patently only about keeping their budget. Also, just going to throw this out there, but it is fairly possible that the email i…
It's incredibly suspicious to allude to an e-mail from the TSA, but not actually include a copy of said e-mail.
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#5Security by obscurity.
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#6The story he's referring to is this one:
http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/1b-of-nude-...
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#7The term "security theater" has been tossed around a lot, but I think it's pretty clearly coming to that. Asking the mainstream media not to cover something like this is completely indefensible from a security standpoint - what, terrorists only learn about security flaws from TV?. It's pretty patently only about keeping their budget. Also, just going to throw this out there, but it is fairly possible that the email i…
It's incredibly suspicious to allude to an e-mail from the TSA, but not actually include a copy of said e-mail.
I'll be requesting a copy by FOIA... will post on my blog whenever it comes :)
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's incredibly suspicious to allude to an e-mail from the TSA, but not actually include a copy of said e-mail.
I'll be requesting a copy by FOIA... will post on my blog whenever it comes :)
Could you ask the journalist in question to forward you the entire e-mail as well?
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#9The term "security theater" has been tossed around a lot, but I think it's pretty clearly coming to that. Asking the mainstream media not to cover something like this is completely indefensible from a security standpoint - what, terrorists only learn about security flaws from TV?. It's pretty patently only about keeping their budget. Also, just going to throw this out there, but it is fairly possible that the email i…
It's incredibly suspicious to allude to an e-mail from the TSA, but not actually include a copy of said e-mail.
It's not "incredibly suspicious", since the author is claiming that one of his media contacts was the recipient of the email. Also, I don't see how seeing a screenshot of the purported message from the TSA would be considered more valid evidence than the current screenshot.
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#10I hope the email is fake. Yet I would not be surprised if it wasn't. Most government employees I have met are not really that intelligent. Add that to a bit of power and little to no accountability and you have an instant recipe for disaster.