Earlier this week I blogged about the TSA serving subpoenas to Chris Elliott and Steven Frischling, demanding that the two men reveal how they got their hands on the TSA security directive that went into effect after the Christmas Day terrorist scare.
Elliot reports that after communication between his lawyer and DHS, his lawyer recived this note:
This is to confirm our earlier telephone conversation that the TSA subpoena of December 29, 2009, issued to your client, Mr. Christopher Elliott, is being withdraw [sic] as no longer necessary.
Thank you for your assistance and have a happy and safe New Year.
John A. Drennan
Deputy Chief Counsel (Enforcement)
Office of the Chief Counsel
Transportation Security Administration
Department of Homeland Security
While I am glad the subpoena is being "withdraw," (grammar skills must not be a prerequisite to work for the TSA) it should never have been issued in the first place.
Furthermore, DHS has dropped the subpoena against Frischling and even offered to buy him a new computer. Apparently, they damaged his old one when they confiscated it. Just great…
As Elliott suggets, perhaps the TSA has more important things to worry about.
The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, documents obtained by The Washington Post show…
TSA;DHS’s ‘directives’, the crew; the passengers did not prevent Abdulmutallab from blowing up the plane. What prevented the plane from blowing up was ineptitude. Ineptitude in Abdulmutallab’s ability to follow instructions or in his master’s bomb making ability.
Ineptitude is something TSA and DHS have in common with Abdulmutallab. They would disagree with my opinion. They think they do a good to excellent job because they believe their job is to create the illusion of security by preforming and providing us with busy work until this latest fanatical religious obsession passes. People such as Elliot and Frischling who helpnpull the curtain back exposing this idiotic game we are forced to participate in each time we board a plane are convenient scapegoats.
Does TSA think they can publish a directive that the tens of thousands of US based flight crews will have to read and it will not be leaked to the press? What about all those non-US flight crews flying into the US? The problem is most likely that they haven’t thought about what would be involved in keeping a secrete amongst a hundred thousand people. Much less if keeping people in their seats not playing with their toys the final hour of a flight will keep anyone from blowing up a plane.
I know TSA will keep me and another 99.999999% of people flying because we have no intention of blowing up a plane. But that 0.0000001% who is thinking about blowing up a plane is just going to do something else when they decide it is time to blow up a plane.
And has anyone had their crotch ‘patted down’ yet. It seems like if someone wanted to smuggle something onto a plane that is still a safe place. And if people will smuggle drugs in other body cavities, why won’t someone on their way to heaven do the same thing?
Call the White House. Call your Congressmen. Tell them what you think.