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Originally Posted by ScottC
If by "the spin", you mean show their side of the story, then yes.
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Of course that's what I mean by "spin." A government agency pulling in their public affairs staff (albeit lowly bloggers) on a Friday night & a weekend to conduct an aggressive rebuttal counterattack is pretty extraordinary. (I work inside the Beltway, so I write with some experience.) The original rebuttal post was at 8:43 pm and the 60-odd replies were posted starting at 2-something on Saturday morning and stopped sometime before noon. Somebody stayed up all night, or close to it. That's not normal for a government agency public affairs staff unless there's a hurricane or a plane crash.
It's very clear to me that the TSA wants to kill this story completely and quickly, and, to a certain extent, they fear the proliferation ability of the internet.
The strange thing is, if they had any public affairs people with any Washington saavy at all (Kristin Lee -- I rest my case), they would have taken a standard "Washington" bad news tactic
1. Take advantage of the fact that this hit on a Friday afternoon;
2. Do nothing -- totally ignore the story; and,
3. Count on the American People's microscopic attention span and assume that this will be forgotten by Monday morning.
The TSA is terribly afraid of something...