Originally Posted by
WillCAD
Those of us who post regularly in this forum have long recognized that TSA sprays its SSI designation around on its records and documents like a drunken dog marking territory. The very fact that the entire SOP manual is SSI, while none of the contents that travelers need to know are duplicated elsewhere in non-SSI publications, shows the depth of the paranoia and stupidity in which the agency has wallowed almost from the day of its creation.
I've got to believe that, in addition to using SSI to hide information from the public (and Congress) that SSI is also used as a clerkforce motivational tool. You create SSI, tell the clerks that this information is essential to national security and can't be disclosed, and they respond by feeling important. SSI and cop-like uniforms are two key ingredients in the TSA's social engineering approach.