doober

http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/01/foia-req...s-for-lab.html

Boggie Dog

I doubt that BB had any part of creating that material.

It is pretty clear he is only a puppet dancing on the strings handled by someone else.

TheGolfWidow

"No really, we'll stop looking at you naked just as soon as we get around to it."

doober

You're completely correct, except that I would say he is nothing more than a drone, as in bee or even possibly as in a remote-controlled toy.

However, I couldn't come up with another title on the spur of the moment.

Fisher1949

I'm stunned so many news outlets are readily willing to accept TSA's word that these images are of volunteers made for training. Why would any legitimate journalist trust TSA?

They lied to Chaffetz about the strip search of the child in SLC. They also denied the incident happened with the Austin woman they just had to pay off. I expect they'll also lose in the case of the woman they beat up in ATL.

I wrote Chaffetz' office asking for a full investigation, not that my input will be necessary. He was furious after the SLC incident and I suspect this will just be more evidence when he re-introduces the bill for TSA overhaul that didn't get through the 111th. If the bill doesn't get through he can then tighten the purse strings.

Just a Gates went proactive last week offering up cuts of military spending in hopes of avoiding budget cuts, now we see Pistole trying to soft sell the AIT program in advance hoping to avoid a similar fate. Many members of Congress have already been groped and likely won't have much interest in protecting TSA.

This is the season of government roll back.

Boggie Dog

Seems he put the new post up, tucked his tail between his legs, and sulked off.

I think his days as TSA Moderator are numbered.

FriendlySkies

I really hope so! Maybe they'll get somebody that does not sensor free speech...

TheGolfWidow

The 'faces' are blurred in those images because......?

Caradoc

Sock puppets need no strings.

And it's not like they have a shortage of the blue gloves...

n4zhg

It's more likely that the TSA Blog will cease to accept comments at all and merely become the TSA Telescreen with programming by MiniTruth.

Boggie Dog

Other than the posting TSA Spin the TSA blog might as well stop accepting readers post.

If I was giving an evaluation for performance of the TSA Blog moderators and how well they ran a blog I would give them a fail and fire the whole crew.

Current comments are running almost 100% anti-TSA.

chollie

(bolding mine). I don't think all that many have been groped, and I doubt if those few have gotten the 'real' grope. I think most of them are recognizable (and possibly take pains to be recognized) at their home checkpoints. I don't think anyone from TSA at PHX is going to be singling John Mccain out for a 'random frisk, for example, or selecting him for the NoS. In fairness to the politicians, they don't necessarily have to ask for special treatment - they're likely to get it anyway.

Their spouses, kids, aides, however, are a different story. I believe the New York politician who has introduced legislation to get the NoS thrown out of NYC airports mentioned that his wife had objections and that was what first really brought the issue home to him. The families and staff don't necessarily have the same wide recognition that the Congress person does, so they're more likely to have a bad (real) experience and their input is more likely to be taken seriously.

For all those gutless Congress folks who wanted to pontificate to get airtime when the new frisks were first rolled out, tightening the purse strings on TSA as part of a larger government rollback is an easy way to try to reign in the use of NoS and frisks without taking the TSA on directly. No $$, no additional manpower, NoS roped off, only folks getting frisked are the ones who used to get wanded.

nachtnebel

There are NO US tanks in Bhagdad! No tanks! It is pure fantasy to even suggest it!

-Bhagdad Bob (two blocks from a convoy of incoming Abrams)

Lara21

Well some of us believe that the reason for the blurred faces, in those body scan images, is because they are more graphic than they claim they are and that the person can actually be identified in those images because the highest resolution setting, on those machines, will actually produce a high quality black and white picture that looks just like it was taken with a high quality camera.

RichardKenner

That's simply not possible! How could any scanner using MMW or x-rays know the color of a person's skin? If you think about the technology, what you're basically producing is a topographical map of the body. It could well have similar details than a picture would, but wouldn't look the same as that picture, among other reasons because the picture may not show topographical details. One can legitimately ask about the level of detail of images, but each will show things the other will not: no picture will look the same as an image produced by an AIT and no AIT image will look like a picture.