TSA
 TSA     | |
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| Parent organization | US/Department/Homeland Security |
| Headquarters | Pentagon City, Arlington County, Virginia |
| Leader | Administrator of The Transportation Security Administration |
| Staff | 55,600 |
| Subpage | •TSA/Administrator |
| Formed just after 9-11, this agencies conditions the citizenry to undergoing invasive control measures. | |
Contents
Official narrative
This agency makes people safer by checking for bombs or dangerous items aboard planes. Their right to require some passengers[1] submit to carcinogenic X-ray scanning has saved lived saved the concomitant decrease in attacks by "terrorists". Citizens should be glad that it plans to roll out such invasive checks across the travel system. The introduction of watch lists are not to prepare for a totalitarian control grid, but for passenger safety.
Problems
The procedure of the TSA (and similar agencies worldwide) are not backed up by evidence of their effectiveness at reducing terrorism. For example, the "liquid bomb plot" has never been shown to be possible and James Petras has termed it a "hoax"[2] while Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, termed the police and government story about the "terror plot" part of a "pattern of lies and deceit."[3]
Security theatre
Security expert Bruce Schneier describes the ban on liquids as "security theater"[4] i.e. something which is carried out for their impact on people's minds, rather than for the purpose of increasing 'security'.[5]
2015 Reshuffle
In June 2015, CNN reported that the acting Administrator of The Transportation Security Administration, Melvin Carraway, was removed from the post and replaced by his deputy Mark Hatfield, after spectacularly bad performance (banned items were smuggled through the screening process in 67 out of 70 tests it conducted across the USA).[6]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Twenty Years On, We’ve Learned Nothing From 9/11 | Speech | 17 September 2021 | Ron Paul | 20 years on from 9/11, Ron Paul says that The Establishment in the United States has learned nothing since the attacks. |
References
- ↑ http://professional-troublemaker.com/2015/12/24/corbett-sues-tsa-over-new-policy-to-refuse-opt-outs/
- ↑ http://www.voltairenet.org/article143264.html
- ↑ http://911blogger.com/node/2984
- ↑ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_liquid_bomb.html
- ↑ Schneier, Bruce (2003). Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World. Copernicus Books. p. 38. ISBN 0-387-02620-7.
- ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover-airport-screening-tests/index.html
