I've had to request video from a different airport, so I'll share my experience.

I started by contacting the TSA's FOIA office. Don't bother. You're better off mailing a chain letter to a Russian bureaucrat.

However, through that process I discovered (and I believe that it mirrors Affection's experience) that TSA will say they have neither access nor control of the tapes because they are local airport property.

I requested the video from the airport directly by contacting their legal department.

I was told by the airport's general counsel that I was denied access to video of myself because while that state's public information laws are written to require that a citizen of that state be granted access to public documents, as a non-citizen of that state he interpreted that law to mean that only citizens of that state could request video from an international airport.

In Affection's case I believe he was told that the tapes were SSI.

So, yeah, good luck.

I eventually got the tapes by hiring a local (to that airport) attorney who got the tapes from the airport because, dumb luck, the airport's general counsel is a personal friend of his. It was mentioned that I likely wouldn't have gotten the tapes any other way.

So here's my recommendation, write the FSD a letter by return Certified Receipt. If he acknowledges it at all, he'll probably deny it on SSI grounds. I would simultaneously send Certified Letters to the airport's general counsel and TSA FOIA, the latter for no other reason than to create a paper trail. They'll probably point fingers at each other, so this way you've asked for it from everybody.

In the end you may have to hire an attorney.

It's so lame the way these under educated buffoons hide behind secrecy in a supposedly open society.

I did some research, and here's what I found for BOS's parent company's chief legal counsel.

David S. Mackey, Chief Legal Counsel
Massachusetts Port Authority
ONE HARBORSIDE DRIVE SUITE 200S
EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02128