Too many failures in a week... Had to find a new photo...Remember last year when TSA agents - operating under the watchful, yet incompetent eyes of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and President Obama - threatened bloggers who reported leaked information about new security procedures?
Yeah, that was yesterday.
Today, the TSA has backpeddled, just like Napolitano backpeddled from her initial "the system worked" comment:
The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday dropped its subpoenas it had issued to two Internet writers in its effort to find the leaker of an airline security directive.
The subpoenas were criticized by a leading journalism organization.
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The administrative subpoena - a demand for information issued without a judge's approval - is a civil, not a criminal document.
Source: My Way News via Drudge Report
Administrative subpoena sounds very neat, legal and bureaucratic, but don't forget that the subpoena was backed up by Chicago thug-style threats:
TSA special agents served subpoenas to travel bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott, demanding that they reveal who leaked the security directive to them. The government says the directive was not supposed to be disclosed to the public.
Frischling said he met with two TSA special agents Tuesday night at his Connecticut home for about three hours and again on Wednesday morning when he was forced to hand over his lap top computer. Frischling said the agents threatened to interfere with his contract to write a blog for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines if he didn't cooperate and provide the name of the person who leaked the memo.
Source: Associated Press via Obama Fail Blog
One of the bloggers - Chris Elliot - is being represented by a group called the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP). RCFP executive director Lucy Dalglish claims that the DHS/TSA has taken unprecendented actions to threaten the bloggers:
Dalglish said she could not remember the last time an administrative subpoena had been served on a reporter in last decade.
Source: My Way News via Drudge Report
This calls for a video of one of the great underrated TV shows of all-time, "Get a Life" (starring a DIFFERENT Chris Elliot). The theme of the show was hilarious incompetence - similar to what we've come to expect from the Obama administration:
