Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Sometimes this is easy...

...like when you're looking for a good example of power lust and lawlessness in the Bush administration for another installment of the...



With issues of personal privacy and personal choice on everyone's mind lately, it's worth taking a look at what happens when you choose to fly on an private airline in the U.S.. The IG at the Homeland Security Department did just that during a review of the Transportation Safety Adminisration, and the results were distressing. Watching Washington offers some examples via USA Today...
After getting hundreds of FOIA requests from JetBlue passengers asking if TSA had their records, TSA reported on their website they had none, even though TSA did, in fact, have those records

TSA Chief James Loy told C0ngress in November 2003, that certain kinds of passenger data were not being used in the test -- even though the data was

The TSA failed to disclose when asked how broad it's role was in getting and using passenger data.
Hundreds of violations of the FOIA. Administrators lying to Congress. Withholding information.

The response so far?
Congress has said the TSA can't continue testing the system unto the GAO clears their safeguards to ensure privacy and protect data.
Something, but somehow not nearly enough for hundreds of acts of lawlessness by yet another branch of the Administration.

Simply scandalous.

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