If you want to see a "way with words" from the TSA, have a look a the Evolution blog and their ridiculous parsing of language in their "you won't be put on a list if you don't have id post," written in response to the recent USA Today article on the topic.

The TSA blog says the USA Today story is "false" because such people are not "put on a list". Of course not -- they are entered into a database. The blog also explicitly refers to people who "forget their ID", so it is probably safe to assume that the treatment by the TSA of people who refused to show ID was not so benign, and that again, since the TSA's unsigned denial of the USA Today article did not explicitly say that such individuals were not "put on a list," it is probably safe to say that they were. Also, the TSA notes that the identities of 558 people were not "successfully resolved", but presumably in these cases, SOMEBODY's name ended up on a list. Finally TSA notes that "our law enforcement and intelligence partners go to great lengths to identify people planning attacks on aircraft. It is our obligation to stop them once they have been identified". O-k-a-a-a-a-y, so where are your press releases trumpeting your success at catching people who were "planning" attacks? They make press releases about seizing blocks of cheese and homemade battery packs, so presumably they would make one if they actually caught someone who was "planning" an attack, but there hasn't been a single one. The only prosecutions they have carried out is of people who successfully smuggled stuff on board in an effort to embarass them into admitting they are entirely incapable of preventing people from smugglng stuff on board, but whom of course never posed a real threat to anyone.

The language of this post is just filled with distoritions, half-truths and misleading statements -- they really do have a very special "way with words"