TSA has collected data on you, despite Congressional orders

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By LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jun 20, 7:55 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The federal agency in charge of aviation security collected extensive personal information about airline passengers even though Congress forbade it and officials said they wouldn't do it, according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

i knew there was a reason i decided to stop flying!

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

Bump.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Anything to do with the TSA royally fucking up is old news at this point

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but them deliberately fucking up after being told not to fuck up after the last time they fucked up is yet another increment in the grand fucking-up circle of life, just like elton john sang.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Eventually a group of TSA contract employees will be found standing in the Reflecting Pool of the National Mall at 8:00am on a school day, fucking bald eagles to death with Rasputin's mummified penis, and they'll just shrug and say "Well it wasn't clearly stated that we couldn't use Rasputin's mummified penis to fuck bald eagles to death."

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

and then they will go on break.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha OMG.

I know an immigration lawyer who subpoened (sp?) the passenger list of her client's flight as that was the only way they could prove the date that their client entered the country. I know it's a completely different situation but more than anything else that made me want to become a lawyer; programmers can't subpoena shit.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

To professionalize, you must federalize.

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

oh god the hits just keep coming. What a great idea the TSA was.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111402525.html?hpid=topnews

― Dandy Don Weiner, Thursday, 15 November 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

It was Ronald Reagan, the president who brought optimism, hair dye and corny anecdotes to the masses, who really got the ball rolling on disregarding laws passed by Congress, only enforcing the ones he felt like enforcing and breaking the ones he felt like breaking. The present Bush administration is only Walking In His Footsteps.

― Aimless, Thursday, 15 November 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Dear American public: take the bus or a train. Seriously.

― Will M., Thursday, 15 November 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/tsa-worker-assaults-colleague-for-joking-about-his-genitals-during-body-scanner-training.php

― goole, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

well that's a last name with several layers of irony

― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:11 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/15/california.airport.security/index.html?hpt=T1

is "don't touch my junk!" the new "don't tase me, bro"?

― omar little, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Two Atlantic folks interview the TSA head:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/10/12/tsa-chief-well-never-eliminate-risk/67682/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 13:44 (fifteen years ago)

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