I stand corrected. You are correct. It is not just the TSA, it is your parent organization the Department of Homeland Security and its sister organization the State Department which makes getting visas for visiting scientists time consuming and expensive.

I also would not visit or spend one dime in Chicago due to hand gun ban.

Why is it that USA is getting a declining share of tourist and business travelers?

Speaking only for myself and many other people I know, travel to USA is at a bare minimum in large part because of the hassles.

Give it a week or two . . .

OTOH, imagine what we've saved in bribes.

Imagine what we (Chicago) lost in bribes from our shows going away.

It's Chicago...those are already listed under standard revenue.

I agree 100%

I hadn't even made the connection between the diaper and being 4 years old.

Yep. Unless the story is false - then the video will be shown. If we hear back that the video has been "erased" or "lost" - followed by silence, then you can be sure the story is correct.

As another smart poster commented

* "Oops ... the cameras aren't working" [EWR]
* "Oops ... the cameras weren't pointing at the incident" [ABQ]
* "Oops ... we deleted the video" [PHL]

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/14146228-post214.html

I hate the TSA as much as the next guy (as long as the next guy is named Spiff), but the original blog post is dated 31 May 2010. Unless someone flagged the tapes for special review, it's highly unlikely that the TSA, or any other public/private entity, still has footage from that far back to review.

24/7 streaming video from dozens of cameras takes up a lot of space. An archival period of more than 72 hours would surprise me, and more than a week would be outlandish.

Of course, a very short archival period (24-48 hours) would ensure that the TSA has footage if a plane goes down, but neatly escapes any potential embarrassment, as any customer complaint is likely to take longer than that to generate public outcry.

The victim states on her blog that she contacted the agency as soon as practicle after the incident so they should have saved the tapes you would think - who knows.

if anyone ever doubted the critical thinking ability of employee's of the TSA, there above, you have an excellent example...

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I can store nice quality video at 1gb/hour. 2TB hard drive will give 2000 camera hours of recording for a cost of $124. So, if we look a having ten cameras covering a checkpoint we would have 200 hours of video for $124. I'd say over a week of video for $124 isn't too much to ask for.

It should also be noted that this is 30 frames per second so we if drop that to 15 then we would get sixteen days of video on a single drive.

Disk space is cheep. If they don't have the video it is because they don't want to have the video.

combatmedic - yeah those costs and rates are inline with prices from retail outlets, they drop 5-20% depending on the qty ordered. You can get a OEM builders pack(10) of 2TB Western Digital Caviar RE 32mb cache, 7200 RPM drives for 1100.

I helped a friend put in a video/audio survalliance system in at his studio where there are 30+ cameras feeding HD feeds 24/7 and he can fit a whole days recording on a single DL DVD, but still has a server with a 10TB data array. All of that cost $5K. TSA doesnt need that many cameras at the CP and in volume could do alot better pricing then that.

I still think the reason the tape disappeared is TSA didnt want it to come to light due to them looking bad. Which also falls in to the pattern of past behavior and evidence, which also is insight into future events and behavior.

Find another sucker, I already bet on the election. I suspect the cameras at that fascist checkpoint were inoperative that day. :D

TSA has a NEGATIVE social value, IMO.

Between TSA, Baby Daley, and the Chicago PD (Hill Street Blues would actually be an improvement), it's a wonder anyone wants to go there.