{"id":1226,"date":"2008-07-24T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2008-07-23T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T21:24:50","slug":"tsa-too-much-power-too-little-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/07\/24\/tsa-too-much-power-too-little-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA – Too much power, too little accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article from “Ask the Pilot” by Patrick Smith is well worth reading<\/a>. It recounts a story that a pilot<\/em> had with the TSA people.<\/p>\n

Let me give you just one little snippet:<\/p>\n

“Ma’am, that’s an airline knife. It’s the knife they give you on the plane.<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can probably imagine where this is headed.<\/p>\n

There are a number of other very good articles on that site as well – be sure to check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article from “Ask the Pilot” by Patrick Smith is well worth reading. It recounts a story that a pilot had with the TSA people. Let me give you just one little snippet: “Ma’am, that’s an airline knife. It’s the knife they give you on the plane.“ You can probably imagine where this is headed.… Continue reading TSA – Too much power, too little accountability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[151,26,121],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-air-travel","tag-security","tag-slippery-slope","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-jM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":437,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/03\/28\/tsa-lied-about-protecting-passenger-data\/","url_meta":{"origin":1226,"position":0},"title":"TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 28, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Incompetence. 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