TSA Security Theatre: Shoot the Messenger Security Inc. 0
If bad news falls in a forest and no one is able to hear it, is it still bad news?
Pilot reveals security failures at San Francisco International, so the pilot is being investigated.
Lawyer Don Werno said the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was checking whether his client had revealed sensitive information.
The videos on YouTube allegedly showed ground crew members swiping security cards and then entering the airport’s secure areas without any screening.
The TSA said it had “taken action”.
Mr Werno said the 50-year-old pilot, who has not been identified, remained employed with a major airline, but had been withdrawn from a programme that trained flight crew to help prevent hijackings. The pilot’s federally issued firearm had been confiscated, he said.
If the government wonders why some are sympathetic to Wikileaks, here is a good example.
