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Oops: TSA Doesn’t Think Terrorists Are Plotting To Attack Airplanes

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“Someone over at Infowars noticed that apparently a clerk at the 11th Circuit appeals court forgot to file the document under seal, allowing them to find out what was under the redactions… Included in there is the following, apparently quoted from the TSA’s own statements:  ‘As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing.’  Elsewhere, the TSA appears to admit that ‘due to hardened cockpit doors and the willingness of passengers to challenge hijackers,’ it’s unlikely that there’s much value in terrorists trying to hijack a plane these days.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131019/02322924936/accidentally-revealed-document-shows-tsa-doesnt-think-terrorists-are-plotting-to-attack-airplanes.shtml

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Libyan-American Rapper Khaled M Removed From Plane, Detained

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“Rapper Khaled Ahmed has drawn attention to airport security and detention practices after he tweeted about his experience of being removed from a connecting flight by unidentified security officials on Monday. Khaled says he was detained, questioned, and had his belongings confiscated without explanation. Khaled is a Libyan-American hip-hop artist who performs under the moniker ‘Khaled M.’ He first rose to prominence in the hip-hop community with his songs about the Arab spring and events in his ancestral homeland of Libya.  After the incident, Khaled M described the experience and expressed his frustration with his repeated run-ins with flight security.”

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2013/9/25/rapper-khaled-m-tweetstsatroubles.html

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Woman sues US Airways for losing her husband’s ashes after TSA mishap

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“Initially, Mrs O’Grady planned to take the urn on board with her, but was stopped by TSA agents who told her she wasn’t allowed to bring the cardboard box containing his urn through security because ‘it’s contents were not a solid substance’.  So she went back to the airline’s front desk and put the box in her checked luggage.  Because of that delay she nearly missed her flight as well.  By the time she got to the gate, she was too late and the airline had already given up her seat.  Mrs O’Grady had to buy a $500 first-class ticket just to stay on the same flight. But the real shocker happened after she arrived at her sister-in-law’s house in Hull. She opened the bag and the box of ashes was gone.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425298/Wife-suing-US-Airways-losing-husband-Brian-James-OGradys-ashes.html

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Dozens Of TSA Employees Fired, Suspended For Illegal Gambling Ring

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“Dozens of local Transportation Security Administration workers have been fired or suspended after they were caught in an illegal gambling ring at Pittsburgh International Airport.  Sources confirm TSA employees on the job set up an office betting pool of sorts, employees betting year-round on all of the big sporting events, the Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, the World Series, the Stanley Cup and more.  Sources confirm the employees recommended for termination did ‘make a little money off of the top.’  TSA sources confirm none of the betting affected any of the security at the airport.”

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/09/19/dozens-of-tsa-employees-fired-suspended-for-illegal-gambling-ring-at-pittsburgh-intl-airport/

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Gunman dead after killing 4 at heavily secured Washington Naval Yard

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“A heavily armed gunman opened fire at the Navy Yard in southeast Washington, D.C., Monday morning killing four people and shooting as many as 12, a senior Naval official told NBC News.  Washington police swat teams cornered at least one of the shooters, who they said was carrying an AR-15, double barrel shotgun, and a handgun in the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building.  At least one officer had been shot in both legs at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters, NBC News reported. The building has heavy security and requires a government I.D. to enter.”

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/16/breaking-shooter-opens-fire-at-washington-navy-yard/

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Ex-TSA screener threatens LAX on eve of 9/11 anniversary

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“Early this morning, members of a federal task force arrested Alpha Onuoha, a screener with the Transportation Security Administration who quit his position.  According to Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Laura Einmiller, Onuoha had been suspended recently, but suddenly resigned his position Tuesday afternoon and allegedly left a ‘suspicious package’ for another screener at TSA’s LAX Headquarters.  The package is believed to have contained an eight-page letter in which Onuoha allegedly discusses the incident that led to his suspension, as well as his general feelings of disdain for the United States.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/11/tsa-screener-threatens-lax-on-eve-of-911-anniversary/

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Farewell to Big Sister: Janet Napolitano’s Orwellian Legacy Lives On

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“The latest revelations confirm long-standing fears that there is nothing private from the government, which has used a variety of covert, unconstitutional tactics to gain access to Americans’ personal data, online purchases and banking, medical records, and online communications. The government’s methods include the use of supercomputers to hack through privacy settings, collaborations with corporations to create ‘back doors’ for NSA access into encrypted files, and the use of strong-arm tactics against those technology and internet companies who refuse to cooperate. We’re still being taken to the cleaners by a fiscally irresponsible and semi-corrupt government.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/farewell_to_big_sister_janet_napolitanos_orwellian_legacy_lives_on

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Washington Post: U.S. $53 billion ‘Black budget’ details leaked by Snowden

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“U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget. The $52.6 billion ‘black budget’ for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. The Post is withholding some information after consultation with U.S. officials who expressed concerns about the risk to intelligence sources and methods.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_print.html

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How the Beast’s Votaries Justify Themselves

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“The police-state not only tries to intimidate the serfs here in the USSA with its ‘terror drills’ but those overseas as well, the ones subsisting in its imperial possessions. And so last week the TSA sponsored an ‘exercise’ in which ‘Representatives from dozens of government,  military, aviation and shipping organizations partnered [sic for ‘collaborated in fascism’] to educate and understand threats to airline security and commercial aircraft in Mangilao, Guam.'”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/how-the-beasts-votaries-justify-themselves/

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How to Fix the Army: Sack All the Generals

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“Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, a seasoned Army colonel who has already earned a reputation for being something of a whistleblower by tracking leadership failures from the field in Afghanistan, describes a system where underserving leaders ‘received prestigious medals, promotions to higher ranks, and plum follow-on jobs; others retired and went to work for defense contractors, often with companies that had profited from the failed acquisition effort.’ Davis worries about the decade of the Army and Marine Corps obsessed with counterinsurgency and small-unit warfare while a ‘a new generation of Chinese military leaders has deepened its understanding and application of conventional warfare.'”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/08/overthrow-the-generals/he

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