Aww, don't sugar-coat it; tell us what you REALLY think! :D

Oops, I guess my blood pressure did jump after all :)

Can someone please PM me a way of getting the SOP? I tried the link on the first page, found it, but didn't see where I could download it.

Thanks!

Oh ABSOLUTELY!

The vast 'meat' of this document is intact with some minor tinkering and additions. In fact it shouldn't be that hard to make any updates to the document to bring it current just by common knowledge.

In my experience as a writer of these sort of 'tombs' - they change very little from version to version

I agree -- Probably 200 posts ago, I posted what the EO 12958 and other executive branch guidance says about private citizen possession of classified material. In real espionage cases, classified information is surrepticiously removed from government possession and passed to a foreign person. There is money or other sort of compensation involved. This SSI stuff doesn't even come close. There could be administrative sanctions levied against those who mishandled it in the TSA. But, any private citizen who manages to come in contact with this information can wrap Christmas presents with it if they want.

King and his buddies are in the minority in Congress right now, so, the best he can do is to run around acting like Foghorn Leghorn.

Have you sent it yet? I'd consider adding the great quote from the comments section of the WaPo article:

"...you have put in charge of a vital function a bunch of strutting martinets whose combination of incompetence and arrogance staggers the human mind and makes them more of a danger to the traveling public than the terrorists they are supposed to be ferreting out. "

May we have permission to send copies of your letter to our own Congresspeople?

Feel free to include as much of my letter that is appropriate in your own letters to your representatives.

I wrote that letter specifically for Rep King in response to a letter he wroe to Nappy. If you are sending it to your Rep you may want to change all the "you" to Rep King.

Has anyone else noticed the drop off in TSOs visiting this site? Wonder if someone told them that visiting/commenting on this site put their miserable career in jeopardy?

Hey TK, looks like this topic has become so radioactive that TSA employees fear coming even remotely close.

Even if there were, the Supreme Court has ruled against them.

I call Representative King's office this morning. Unlike Schumer his phones actually work. I was told to speak with someone from the Committee on Homeland Security and, of course, that guy isn't at his desk.

Not too much of a surprise, I suppose.

Yep, I'd taken note of that. One disappeared after two days and our favorite, TSORon, has not shown up at all. Although I've not looked on a regular basis, I've seen neither of their names listed in the "Currently Active Users" list.

TSAers, or alleged TSAers, also seem to be absent from PV, with the exception of Reed from AK.

Federal law on redistribution of information
 

44 U.S.C. 3506(d)

With respect to information dissemination, each agency shall—

(1) ensure that the public has timely and equitable access to the
agency's public information, including ensuring such access through—
(A) encouraging a diversity of public and private sources for
information based on government public information;
(B) in cases in which the agency provides public information maintained
in electronic format, providing timely and equitable access to the
underlying data (in whole or in part); and
(C) agency dissemination of public information in an efficient,
effective, and economical manner;

(2) regularly solicit and consider public input on the agency’s
information dissemination activities;

(3) provide adequate notice when initiating, substantially modifying, or
terminating significant information dissemination products; and

(4) not, except where specifically authorized by statute—
(A) establish an exclusive, restricted, or other distribution
arrangement that interferes with timely and equitable availability of
public information to the public;
(B) restrict or regulate the use, resale, or redissemination of public
information by the public;
(C) charge fees or royalties for resale or redissemination of public
information; or
(D) establish user fees for public information that exceed the cost of
dissemination.

You may need a clue X 4 but what point are you making?

The biggest clue is that which was posted applies to the respective government agency.

Given what I know -- including from his site's link to http://papersplease.org/sf_faq.html-- ehasbrouck, as intended, seems to be reinforcing the point that the American public ought to have nothing to fear in distributing such material/information.

That federal law as quoted explicitly protects the right to use or redisseminate info (such as, in this case, the Screening Management SOP) once a government agency makes it public, as they have done.