On Monday the TSA made it very clear that the version of the Screening Management SOP that was posted to the fbo.gov website was not a version that was ever actually placed into active use. This was part of the statement made on their blog on Monday: The version of the document that was posted was [...]
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As it so happens there were hearings scheduled for this morning in Congress for some TSA officials. Certainly they probably would have been much happier to discuss the White House party crashers – the original primary topic – than how a supposedly secret document wound up online for the world to read. Alas, it was [...]
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I suppose that it was inevitable that the TSA would eventually fall on their face and do something like this. “Secure” documents have a habit of slipping out every now and then and the TSA has been around long enough at this point that the odds were no longer in their favor. What is interesting [...]
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I’m not a legal scholar. I didn’t even stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. But I am pretty good about spotting what appears to be a felonious act, especially when it jumps off the computer screen and smacks you right in the face. And after reading through the various non-responses from the TSA [...]
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Since the discovery and publication of the non-redacted TSA Screening Management SOP this past Sunday the TSA has been working to clean up the mess. Hardly a surprise and you’d think that they would be used to such situations by now. They’re moving with amazing speed, actually. First, they managed to get the document offline [...]
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Apparently the TSA really believes in the guidance provided by mothers everywhere in the winter: multiple layers will keep you warm and cozy. I reached out to the Office of Public Affairs this morning regarding the accidental release of the non-redacted Screening Management SOP document. The initial call received a “no comment” with a promise [...]
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It is amazing how time can flow in the federal government. The TSA Screening Management SOP document that I posted about yesterday had been online since March. Sure, apparently not many people knew about it and even fewer knew that it actually contained the content that was assumed by TSA’s legal department to be redacted. [...]
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When the TSA make mistakes this egregious it really isn’t all that hard to pick on them. The latest is that their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedure is published on the internet. I actually like that. I don’t think that security through obscurity is a good idea. Of course the document is marked SSI and [...]
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