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defrogITEM: The infamous no-fly list the TSA uses to keep extremely dangerous people off airplanes – of which there are now between 400,000 and 1 million, depending on who you ask – now includes a CNN reporter who, by the wildest coincidence, found himself unable to board planes shortly after filing a series of stories critical of the TSA.
The TSA swears he’s not on the list. The airlines swear he is. The list itself is unavailable for public view and the criteria for who gets on the list is secret.
So who do you believe?
What makes this especially worth knowing is that this most likely ISN’T the work of some evil plot by Dick Cheney to silence the media, but probably some gung-ho TSA person who didn’t care for Griffin’s unpatriotic attitude.
It’s not hard to imagine. CBS2 in Chicago recently did a piece on flyers who have been publicly humiliated by TSA screeners who were likely acting under their own paranoid, powermad directive. Which in many ways is even more arbitrary – and therefore stupid and dangerous – than if it was all official policy. That said, it might as well be policy, since the TSA doesn't actively do anything to discourage this kind of thing.
Either way, of course, it’s one of those things that doesn’t make people any safer but does make Obama Bin Laden a very happy terrors. I’m sure the Yankee Stadium sunblock ban is also making his afternoon.
Nobody's free to wear sunscreen,
This is dF
The TSA swears he’s not on the list. The airlines swear he is. The list itself is unavailable for public view and the criteria for who gets on the list is secret.
So who do you believe?
What makes this especially worth knowing is that this most likely ISN’T the work of some evil plot by Dick Cheney to silence the media, but probably some gung-ho TSA person who didn’t care for Griffin’s unpatriotic attitude.
It’s not hard to imagine. CBS2 in Chicago recently did a piece on flyers who have been publicly humiliated by TSA screeners who were likely acting under their own paranoid, powermad directive. Which in many ways is even more arbitrary – and therefore stupid and dangerous – than if it was all official policy. That said, it might as well be policy, since the TSA doesn't actively do anything to discourage this kind of thing.
Either way, of course, it’s one of those things that doesn’t make people any safer but does make Obama Bin Laden a very happy terrors. I’m sure the Yankee Stadium sunblock ban is also making his afternoon.
Nobody's free to wear sunscreen,
This is dF
