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TSA Tells Students: You’re A Security Threat
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Scott Shane
The New York Times
May 13, 2008
WASHINGTON — A German graduate student in oceanography at M.I.T. applied to the Transportation Security Administration for a new ID card allowing him to work around ships and docks.
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What the student, Wilken-Jon von Appen, received in return was a letter that not only turned him down but added an ominous warning from John M. Busch, a security administration official: “I have determined that you pose a security threat.”
Similar letters have gone to 5,000 applicants across the country who have at least initially been turned down for a Transportation Worker Identification Credential, an ID card meant to guard against acts of terrorism, agency officials said Monday.
The officials also said they were sorry about the language, which they may change in the future, but had no intention of withdrawing letters already sent.
“It’s an unfortunate choice of words in a bureaucratic letter,” said Ellen Howe, a security agency spokeswoman.
Ms. Howe and Maurine Fanguy, who oversees the new ID card program, said that most foreign students did not qualify for the identity cards, but that the letters were not intended to label the recipients as potential terrorists. (Some applicants are also turned down because of criminal records.)
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May 13th, 2008 at 7:47 am
I am fucking speechless at this stupidity!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Uhhhh… you gotta weird name, Uhhh you must be one them Al Kiders!!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:18 am
One ginormous clusterfu@# , a pile of beaurocratic dung that needs flushing.
I bet those are the same a holes that wrote the SOP’s for my last job, total nutjob morans.Deprived in utero of oxygen, brain damaged twitts, nursed on stoopid juice.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am
The Constitution is the document whereby the government derives its authority FROM THE PEOPLE.
If the government has now made itself the enemy of the people, then WHERE IS IT CLAIMING AUTHORITY FROM?
Does it derive its authority from God?
NOPE
Does it derive its authority from the barrel of a gun?
YEP
May 13th, 2008 at 8:31 am
A letter like that could ruin your whole life. What kind of security threat could a M.I.T. graduate student pose? I’m going with comments #1, 2, & 3, what a cluster-f!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am
…Ah-bdi… This “security threat “…b…bullshit hype is starting to get real old , like a pair of rancid slippers that had mold on them…b…bdi…but where mushrooms are findin’ a new home !!!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:24 am
The Constitution means nothing unless the people are willing to enforce it.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:30 am
#7 A lot of people these days have never even read it!
Do your own poll, ask people in Wal-mart about any amendment.
You will be surprised, I was!
A Patriot is a Militiaman who readies himself everyday in quiet FURY!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:48 am
What’s the big deal? These are foreign students, let them work the docks when they gain citizenship. Or maybe they can get a job teaching John Busch how to write letters.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I’m so mad at this i mean he went to school for years just to be turned down, American Government is so corrupt i mean not all foreigners are terrorists….contact me at “Nelson_Burrell@yahoo.com”
May 13th, 2008 at 10:14 am
…………………………………..DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 10:59 am
After just going thru an episode of being treated like a criminal at the airport, my patience is nearing the end.
The color of TSA uniforms is all wrong, the shirts need to be brown.
I am telling my boss that he will rent a car for me the next time he wants me to go somewhere and bail the company out.
There are others out there getting a stomach full too, like the other SSSS passenger behind me.
He was irate at having his pump bottle of hairspray disposed of.
(Smiliing TSA drone) “Sir, this is over 4 ounces, we are going to have to dispose of it.”
“You have got to be kidding!”
(Smiliing TSA drone) “No sir, it does not meet federal regulations. Is there someone you can give it too?”
“JUST THROW THE F’ING STUFF AWAY ! ! THIS IS F’ING RIDICULOUS ! ! ”
(Smiliing TSA drone) “Sir, you may now collect your items and continue on your flight.”
“THIS IS F’ING RIDICULOUS ! ! ”
What a joke and waste of time, money and the Constitution.
Don’t get me started.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Fuck the TSA!!! Your treated like a criminal during the interviewing process…been there…done that!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
The Tsa is a total farce
May 13th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
If you post on infowars I guess your a security threat as well? Oh well you have to be good at something, I guess taking orders and placating jackboot thugs isn’t in my resume. Keep up the good work. If they lose
a single night’s sleep good, they have some catching up to do.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
FBI raids office of senior official in charge of protecting federal whistleblowers
May. 13th, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Monday, May 12, 2008
IRONIES ABOUND
By William Fisher
In one of the more ironic episodes of the Bush Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week raided the office and home of the senior official in charge of protecting Federal whistleblowers on suspicion of whistleblower retaliation within his own agency – while he was investigating possible criminal acts within the White House.
Since 2005, Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), has been under investigation by the Inspector General of the White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM), at the behest of the President’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
OPM’s investigation centers on charges that Bloch retaliated against whistleblowers who complained they were transferred out of Washington for political reasons because they disagreed with Bloch’s policies. In the raid, FBI agents sized computers and records.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
After being held at Guantanamo for over 6 years, Pentagon drops charges against “20th Hijacker”
May. 13th, 2008 at 8:19 AM
Update
They need to get their lies straight
Related
White House and other parts of the executive branch having a Continuity of Government drill today
Chicago Tribune: Cheney approved the shooting down of United Flight 93 on 9/11
Backing my claims about 9/11 questions
* May 12, 2008 11:10 pm US/Eastern
Pentagon Drops Charges Against ‘20th Hijacker’
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ― The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.
Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged by the military in February with murder and war crimes for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks. Authorities say al-Qahtani missed out on taking part in the attacks because he was denied entry to the U.S. by an immigration agent.
But in reviewing the case, the convening authority for military commissions, Susan Crawford, decided to dismiss the charges against al-Qahtani and proceed with the arraignment for the other five, said Army Lt. Col. Bryan Broyles, the Saudi’s military lawyer.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
you are Un Das eval doah!
vee vill be putting you in to Das terro Database ComputaH! SCHNELLL!!!!!!
Velcome to Das NAU, acthung!
On the bright side, they didn’t tell this kid he has to start wearing a special badge on his clothign every time he goes out, from now on, at least not yet……
13*
May 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
last night i lay awake. my woman snoring softly, her body pressed against mine.
How could i sleep? My country is being blatantly raped and pillaged and there will be nothing left. This morning I am tired, but at least I lost sleep over something worthwhile.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Bush says the terrorists hate us for our freedom.
Then why doesn’t Bush promote freedom ?
May 13th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
#20 Because 43 loves Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
How do they determine who is a security threat unless they use data mining and spying ,hey guess what I already know the do they have been doing it since 1987 or whenever it was that computers were created not too shure on the date but hey they have been spying long before I was born and I am guessing that my DNA is already in a database collected at birth so these power mad sickos can determine if im a security threat too…
May 14th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Security threat? Hmm. Fly GAK airlines. You are not allowed to board without being issued a sidearm, and instructed to shoot identified hi jackers.
And don’t sell me that SHIT about pressurization, How do you think sky divers exit the fucking plane you dickheads?
“Homeland Security” is a full on Constitution and armed public.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Oh, and secrecy and secret societies- ILLEGAL.
Any questions?