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• Sealed evidence from the Byron Sonne trial

  
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  Denise Balkisoon, who did a great job covering the Byron Sonne trial writes, "If youre not tired of G20 hacker/accused bomber Byron Sonne yet, the details of his pre-trial are now no longer under publication ban. Im doing two posts on Open File with details, this is the first. Includes the police statement as to why ...
  5 days ago

• Retire Blogger Bob and Give the TSA a Serious Makeover

  
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  Every week, Bob Burns of the TSA Blog Team posts the TSA ’s Week in Review and we cringe. Bob’s method of recounting these stories isn’t the narrative of stopping terrorists. In the majority of these cases, the truth is they haven’t found anyone malicious, they’ve found a foolish person. “ A ...
  3 weeks ago

• "You cant teach people about that!

  
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  CAIR doesnt like it , and thats FAR more important than, say, people winding up dead!" Note that its Sen. Durbin in the middle of this crap. One more reason , since the War on Terror is over, we need to get rid of DHS. Well, this is kind of sad: For the creators of a Starz series who wanted an authentic look ...
  3 weeks ago

• This week in TSA awfulness: a recap of recent American airport atrocities

  
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  Cue up the Yakity Sax ! In case you missed it, there have been a number of Boing Boing posts of late documenting outrageous TSA incidents: • A terminal in Newark airport was evacuated because the TSA forgot to screen a tiny baby . • TSA agents discovered an "anomaly in the crotchital area" of a 79-year-old ...
  3 weeks ago

• If the managers cant support the agents, then

  
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  they need new managers . Ones that will insist standards be met: One agent on the president’s detail regularly fails handgun tests but has not been removed, agents with firsthand knowledge have told me. Another agent on the detail is so out of shape that she cannot open the heavy doors to exit the ...
  3 weeks ago

• More of the wonders from TSA

  
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  (Both of the goons are now just standing there staring back and forth between the gun and each other.) Me: “Um, did you guys interrupt my coffee and bagel just so you could see the cool gun?” In Unison: “Yeah, pretty much!” heh, heh, heh,… Me: Dorks. “Thanks, now I have the pleasure of going ...
  3 weeks ago

• Well, isnt it nice that they want to protect us from knowing?

  
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  The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an American or other foreign soldier is killed by an Afghan in uniform. But The Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in which the Afghan wounds — or misses — his U.S. or allied target. It also doesnt report the wounding of troops who ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK Border Authority orders Heathrow to suppress evidence of massive customs queues

  
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  The UK Border Authority has ordered Heathrow Airports management to stop handing out leaflets apologising for the gigantic customs queues at its terminals and advising them to contact UKBA to complain. UKBA has also ordered the airport to stop passengers from documenting these queues with photographs. I came into ...
  4 weeks ago

• Newark Terminal C evacuated because TSA forgot to screen a tiny baby

  
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  The Port Authority Police and/or the TSA (they blame each other) at Newark Airport evacuated Terminal C on Friday because a tiny, little, itty-bitty baby didnt get screened (Mom passed the kid to Dad, got screened, and then they swapped). When the TSAs ever-vigilant anti-hugging squad figured out what had happened, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hey, former Chief Clown of TSA: if you think us being upset with TSA is

  
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  dangerous to security, you might try actually training these morons to act like professionals, and use their brains( assuming they have them ), stop stealing from people , stop committing sexual assault , and stop dealing drugs ; that might make quite a difference in how we see these clowns wearing badges they ...
  4 weeks ago

• Guest Post: TSA Mobile App for Better Boarding

  
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  This guest post is by Lynn Jackson, of  StealthMonitoring.com   With Memorial Day, 4 th of July, and summer vacation just around the corner, millions of travelers are booking their flights. They’re probably dreading long airport lines and navigating aggressive TSA security measures. Fortunately, the TSA has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Range day

  
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  and was able to test the modified .22 ammo. Got to the range and there was a light easterly breeze, and it stayed that way until just after I finished the testing part of things, and then picked up some. Need to shoot some pictures, then Ill post on the test. Tried something else on some .38 Special ammo, pictures ...
  4 weeks ago

• TSA agents harass 7-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and developmental disability

  
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  The Transportation Security Administration launched the “TSA Cares” program to assist disabled fliers just four months ago, but a story making the rounds today proves that the TSA definitely does not. The Frank family was traveling from New York Citys JFK airport to Florida, and were abruptly pulled aside after a ...
  4 weeks ago

• TSA screeners in LA ran drug ring, took narco bribes

  
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  Photo: Reuters. A man is screened with a backscatter x-ray machine at a TSA security checkpoint iat Los Angeles International Airport Four present and past security screeners at LAX took 22 payments of up to $2400 each to let large shipments of coke, meth, and pot slip through baggage X-ray machines. Oh, we are so ...
  4 weeks ago

• Who did the TSA terrorize today? A 4-year-old girl. Why? She hugged her grandma.

  
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  PHOTO: Snapshot by Lori Croft of her 4-year-old granddaughter Isabella Brademeyer, in Wichita, Kan., where she was a flower girl at her uncle’s wedding. The child was harassed by TSA goons on the way back from that family event, for the crime of hugging her granny. Earlier this week on Boing Boing, Cory ...
  4 weeks ago

• !(#&^%!! Blogger ate my post!

  
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  Trying to rebuild, lets see... ok, start with this excuse for beating someone half to death: We try to bring our kids up the right way and show people that all black kids are not bad.“ So, over words, a mob of you try to kill someone and then talk about justice for Trayvon after. Reeeaaall good effort, lady. ...
  4 weeks ago

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