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April 20, 2005
Two (more) Strikes Against the TSA
The Republican-created TSA is in the news twice today.
First we learn that screening at airports hasn't improved one iota in the past two years. The government's solution? More money and power to them, of course. They're going to spend at least $204 million on new technology to help them better invade airline passengers' privacy. (The real solution, naturally, is to get the government out of the airline security business altogether and let the airlines handle it.)
Meanwhile, it emerges that a "Transportation Security Administration official spent $500,000 on art, silk plants and other decorations for a new operations center and then went to work for the vendor after leaving the agency, according to a report from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general."
What's more, "higher-ups at the TSA 'quashed' efforts by procurement managers to exercise control."
I feel safer in the air now!
Posted by Mike Tennant at April 20, 2005 02:03 PM
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