Kip Hawley, the head of TSA, thinks air security would be so much easier if it weren’t for all the passengers. We’re all just “disgruntled,” “amateur security experts” (not that he’s got any security credentials).
Yes, thank the almighty that TSA is just full of crackerjack security masterminds who cannot be foiled. Were it not for them the new threat from pre-schoolers might never have been uncovered.
Mr. Administrator, if you’re really serious about this homeland security thing, you’ll approve and promulgate new policy that stops insanity like this tomorrow (Thursday). You’ll do it fast and publicly because there is absolutely no justification for such behavior. We know you’re not going to gig anyone for this travesty because screeners are just bureaucrats attempting to follow policy: and that’s the problem. Its homeland SECURITY, not homeland security BUREAUCRACY. You’re not running the nation’s largest DMV so stop managing, staffing, and operating one.
This, among many other reasons, is why more Americans are going to die in the sky at the hands of evil-doers before too long.
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Thank goodness that DHS alerted us to the Icelandic terrorist threat too.
http://eggmann.blog.is/blog/eggmann/entry/389611/
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January 10, 2008 8:05 AM
Posted on January 10, 2008 08:05
You would think, wouldn’t you, that someone in charge of a security bureaucracy that deals with a risk profile where the incidence of bad guys is something like one in a million would have a more forgiving approach to the concerns of the other 999,999 of us. Sadly, no.
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January 10, 2008 12:44 PM
Posted on January 10, 2008 12:44
IT Support in large companies has the same problem… It’s a nightmare field to work in, so I don’t envy the TSA.
(Ironically, of all the parts of DHS I’ve dealt with in the past year, TSA has been by far the friendliest and more professional.)
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January 10, 2008 2:59 PM
Posted on January 10, 2008 14:59
If there is one entity that ignores policy (in particular security policy) for a wide range of reasons its corporate IT, so I don’t know where you’re coming from on that point.
I’ll confess that a just-following-orders type isolated and tried to wand HoTS jr. at BWI a few years back and a supervisor who didn’t have her head up her fourth point of contact stepped in and said, “I don’t think so.” We need more of the latter.
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January 10, 2008 3:37 PM
Posted on January 10, 2008 15:37
When I traveled by showing my CAC card as my ID I never got pulled out of line or anything. Ahh, the good old days…
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January 11, 2008 10:48 AM
Posted on January 11, 2008 10:48