TSA - out of control buffoons

[jdalexa]

This interesting bit from Lee Shiek. He is the manager of College Park Airport (CGS). It is the oldest continuously operating airport in the world and is one of the DC-3 - within the D.C. FRZ.

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For those of you who attended the ADIZ public hearings in January, you'll
recall that the FAA panel moderator started each session by explaining to us
that the verbatim transcript of all testimony would be posted on the DMS
website, as well as be available for hardcopy purchase. For a short period,
the verbatim testimony transcript was in fact available online.

It is now missing from the website in its entirety, nor is it available for
hardcopy purchase.

I have been advised by FAA reps that the complete removal of this
documentation was done at the initiative of the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA). The alleged purpose of this action is to review the
material for Security Sensitive Information (SSI). I have been unable to
locate a government rep who can say when, or IF, this public documentation
will return to the public domain.

Keep in mind that every word of every sentence of every presentation was
spoken in the presence of multiple TSA representatives who were either on
the hearing panel or in the room. Soon after, the transcripts were posted
on the DMS website addressing NPRM 17005. A few weeks later, TSA decided to
retract all the information from public access.

The fact that TSA is an out of control dysfunctional agency is a given, so
it may be just another example of their on-going bufoonery. On the other
hand, this could be an attempt to rewrite history to minimize the public
record sentiment regarding the ADIZ. In any event, since its inception, TSA
has consistently demonstrated their inability to do the right thing, and
this latest example should not go unchallenged.

If you're as outraged over this institutional arrogance as I am, I invite
you to express your views to Mr. Tony Fazio, FAA Office of Rulemaking, at:
202-267-9677. You might even try to locate the appropriate troid within the
TSA who is aware of this issue....(Good luck.... Been there-done that.)

Lee Schiek, Mgr/CGS

 

[Cobra Doc]

The Tax Spending Agency out of control and being secretive? Who'da thunk it? Tell Jim Campbell at Aero-News.net. He loves this kind of stuff. (Or you can just make sure Kevin sees this.)

 

[Hognose]

The most screwed aviators in the USA are those based in the DC-3 airports. That's Hyde Field, Potomac Airport, and Lee's College Park. Dave Wartofsky at Potomac has extensive information on his website in his inimitable style.

TSA has admitted that they have no justification for the ADIZ and DRZ as currently constituted, and are "just trying to come up with a good story" for Congress. Of course, Congress is a machine into which special interests put money to get special favours, and we don't have enough money to be a special interest.

As far as the TSA, having got back control of the air marshals, and driven scores if not hundreds of air marshals to bail, the TSA is now sending screeners (yes, the same people who can test a floor for level by drooling out both sides of their mouth) to a quickie shake-n-bake "Air Marshal Skool" and turning them loose with .357 SiGs.

I don't believe anyone competent at anything has ever worked at TSA in any capacity.

cheers

-=K=-

 

[jdalexa]

TSA - Terrorist Support Agency. Taking our freedoms so the bad guys don't have to even try any more.

If ever there was a definition of "enemy domestic" they fit the bill.

 

[Cobra Doc]

I keep thinking about the vows I took for 13 years: "...all enemies foreign and domestic.." What do you do when it's a government agency? What about the mayor of Chicago.

 

[ahancock]

On 911, I told my staff that I was more concerned about government over reaction than the terrorists themselves. I still am.
Alan