TSA Puts Secret Security Manual On-line
The government some want to give complete control over your health care (and medical records) has made a minor faux pas:
In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers.
The most sensitive parts of the 93-page Standard Operating Procedures manual were apparently redacted in a way that computer savvy individuals easily overcame.
TSA…isn’t security their middle name???
“This is an appalling and astounding breach of security that terrorists could easily exploit,” said Clark Kent Ervin, the former inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security. “The TSA should immediately convene an internal investigation and discipline those responsible.”
“This shocking breach undercuts the public’s confidence in the security procedures at our airports,” said Senator Susan Collins, R-Me., ranking Republican member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “On the day before the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s hearing on terrorist travel, it is alarming to learn that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted its own security manual on the Internet.”
“Massive”, “appalling”, “astounding”, “shocking”, “alarming”… I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many loaded words in one news story before! It’s hard to say what the impact of this boneheaded security breach will be, but I’ll tell you one thing:
On the bright side, the free colonoscopy you’ll get before your next flight will help lower health care costs!
H/T Legal Insurrection
Cross Posted at Proof Positive
They couldn’t do much worse than the Obama administration!
You do know, Dino, that the TS in TSA has nothing to do with trans-sexuals, don’t you?
What’s the matter, Dino? Not enough body cavity searches for you? Let me know the next time you go flying and I’ll be sure you come to the attention of a big, strong man!
I bet it has detailed instructions on how to face Mecca and the proper wording for writing up people who refuse to pray when ordered to 5 times a day. You know, all the things the government is in charge of now.
Proof, all you got to do is stand there and watch them. Hell, the Gieco Caveman is more intelligent than TSA.
I searched all over internet, can’t find that manual. Anybody can forward that to me?
the bitter truth is that this stuff isn’t for making us safe. It’s to make
people think they’re safe. Security Theater.
No, they’re just not allowed to “profile” anyone – good or bad!
But, yes, there is an awful lot of money wasted on very little “security”. Having a TSA agent search grannie or the Marines is akin to lawmakers passing yet another “gun control” law. They can both be seen to be “doing something”!
What a shame Clinton didn’t do anything about terrorists after the 1st Trade center bombing – or Khobar towers, or African Embassy bombings or the USS Cole. Clinton ws declared a paper tiger after Somalia and even refused Bin Laden twice when offered by Sudan. In Clinton’s defense – i remember him bombing an aspirin factory on the day Monica testified (That wasthe extent of his disingenuos war on terror). The Dem/Libs have less than zero credibility when it comes to making or keeping our country safe. But you do seem to very good at hypocricy and revisionist history. Why hasn’t Obama arrested Bin Laden yet? The Dem/Libs are a big joke and a lie – just like the manmade global warming hoax.
RR: There are no “govt resources”, as the private sector pays for everything, and the TSA is here to protect us, so we can continue to pay the bloated govt salaries and benefits, and for the wasteful social spending that is bankrupting us.
It’s your idiotic PC that squeals every time we profile criminals and terrorists, idiot.
Transportation Security Administration is the the biggest waste of government resources since the invasion of Afghanistan. Anyone who has flown on American airlines in the past 8 years knows what I mean. Toothpaste, nailclippers, and baby formula????. Are these assholes for real? Apparently they are, and sheep are OK with them. These idiots believe Marines going to Iraq are a threat.
Careful Moron or you will get your ass arrested.
You’re a waste.
Apparently, it detailed the exact limitations of the x-ray equipment, it illustrated all the credentials of those who might by-pass security, it detailed a list of things that were “optional” to be searched. If you’re going to sneak a destructive device onto a plane, why not put it somewhere there’s better odds it won’t be screened at all?
And if I was going to forge government credentials, it would be so handy for them to hand me a template, rather than having to ask to borrow one from each department of the feds.
Some of them are slow, but eventually one might trick to my intentions!
Anti-terrorism Kabuki. Complete with shadows and wailing chorus.
DINO is probably upset no one has felt him up.
Exactly what is “secret” about it? Stand there and watch them and you know all their “secrets”.
Whistler: Think of them as the equivalent to those tags that tell you not to use your hair dryer in the tub, or drive with the sunscreen in the window. While quite useless for most, they do catch some of those on the edge of cleansing the gene pool!
However, if you are going to x-ray screen for explosive devices, it’s probably not a good idea to tell the enemy what gauge of wire can’t be detected on your x-ray machines!
Send me your name, address and $24.95 and I’ll have someone from Homeland Security deliver one to you personally!
Did it list the proper procedure to feel up old grandma’s and harass families with children?
This is part of the Dem/Lib plan to keep the country safe. Stupid is as stupid does.
I despise the TSA and curse them whenever I fly. I curse more the conservatives (and moderates) who made us the target on 9/11 by marauding around the globe throwing their weight around thinking it would never come back to bite them.
Let’s turn TSA over to Wall Street.
TSA = Thousands Standing Around
I wonder what super-secret secrets were in the manual. How that short stout woman who always makes me take off my belt, shoes and pants in the screening line manages to paint her pants on in the morning?