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Anti Federalist
12-30-2009, 10:32 PM
TSA Agents Visit Travel Writers Who Posted Security Directive

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
December 30, 2009 ("http://www.infowars.com/tsa-agents-visi-travel-writers-who-posted-security-directive/"[url)

Wired reports today that two bloggers who posted new airport search procedures in the wake of the exaggerated underwear bomber fiasco received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents.

“Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogated two U.S. bloggers, one of them an established travel columnist, and served them each with a civil subpoena demanding information on the anonymous source that provided the TSA document.” writes Kim Zetter on the Threat Level section of the Wired website.

“They’re saying it’s a security document but it was sent to every airport and airline,” blogger Steven Frischling told Wired. “It was sent to Islamabad, to Riyadh and to Nigeria. So they’re looking for information about a security document sent to 10,000-plus people internationally. You can’t have a right to expect privacy after that.”

TSA official Suzanne Trevino said security directives “are not for public disclosure.”

Frischling said the agents who showed up at his home were armed and threatened him with a criminal search warrant if he didn’t provide the name of his source. He said they threatened to get him fired from his KLM Royal Dutch Airlines job and also said they would get him designated as a security risk, which would make it difficult for him to travel. Frischling is a photographer and freelance writer.

Infowars posted the document on December 28 after it appeared on the Gizmodo website. The Department of Homeland Security memo instructs TSA employees to perform pat-downs “concentrating on upper legs and torso” of all passengers at airport boarding gates. “Physically inspect 100 percent of all passenger accessible property at the boarding gate prior to boarding, with focus on syringes being transported along with powders and/or liquids.” Heads of State or Heads of Government are exempt from the measures, according to the document.


TSA agents also visited Chris Elliot, a travel journalist who writes a regular column for The Washington Post. “Chris is the other journalist who received and published a copy of the TSA’s Security Directive SD-1544-09-06,” writes Frischling on his blog.

“Chris and I have conversed many times before, however this phone call began by him asking me if any Federal Agents had visited me from the Department of Homeland Security this evening, as he had just been visited by a TSA Special Agent,” Frischling explains. “Moments after my call with Chris ended a sedan pulled in front of my house and two US Transportation Security Administration Special Agents were at my door with some questions and paperwork for me. I sent two of my kids upstairs, and like Chris I was served a subpoena by the Department of Homeland Security to disclose who sent me the contents of SD-1544-09-06.”

“We had just put the kids in the bathtub when Special Agent Robert Flaherty knocked on my front door with a subpoena. He was very polite, and used ’sir’ a lot, and he said he just wanted a name: Who sent me the security directive?” explains Elliot on his blog.

The subpoena commands Elliot “to produce and permit inspection and copying of the records” in his possession related to “TSA Security Directive 1544-09-06 dated December 25, 2009.”

“Any person who neglects or refuses to produce records in obedience to this subpoena is subject to fines under Title 18, United States Code, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, 49 U.S.C § 46313,” the subpoena concludes.

“So if I’m reading this correctly, the TSA wants me to tell them who gave me the security directive,” writes Elliot. “I told Flaherty I’d call my attorney and get back to him.”

“We are a free society, knowledge is power and informing the masses allows for public conversation and collective understanding,” Steven Frischling notes. “You can agree or disagree, but you need information to know if you want to agree or disagree. My goal is to inform and help people better understand what is happening, as well as allow them to form their own opinions.”

Cowlesy
12-30-2009, 10:34 PM
I'd say something, but I've been drinking 11% ABV Norwegian microbrew for the past 3 hours...so, no.

AdamT
12-30-2009, 10:58 PM
i'd say something, but i've been drinking 11% abv norwegian microbrew for the past 3 hours...so, no.

lol

Anti Federalist
12-30-2009, 10:59 PM
I'd say something, but I've been drinking 11% ABV Norwegian microbrew for the past 3 hours...so, no.

Oh man, c'mon.

Venting allowed.:D

Bruno
12-30-2009, 11:01 PM
Anyone still not believe we live in a Police State?

torchbearer
12-30-2009, 11:04 PM
Anyone still not believe we live in a Police State?

there is a tip link on the Homeland Security webpage- Someone sent an anonymous tip about your post. They think you may be a trouble maker.

Anti Federalist
12-30-2009, 11:06 PM
there is a tip link on the Homeland Security webpage- Someone sent an anonymous tip about your post. They think you may be a trouble maker.

And someone just ratted you out at Eco-Snoop for not recycling.


http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=224841

torchbearer
12-31-2009, 12:22 AM
And someone just ratted you out at Eco-Snoop for not recycling.


http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=224841

I leave hazardous computer materials on my curb. maybe that will make some of those freaks die of a heart attack.

TheEvilDetector
12-31-2009, 12:45 AM
WTF is it with airplanes, that brings out the deranged control freak orgasms in government?

How come you can get into a bus or a cinema without being molested and having every millimetre of your body scanned for WMD?

(or is that going to change also?)

haaaylee
12-31-2009, 01:02 AM
I'd say something, but I've been drinking 11% ABV Norwegian microbrew for the past 3 hours...so, no.

You know you're obsessed when you come to the Ron Paul Forums when you're drunk. . ;)

squarepusher
12-31-2009, 02:48 AM
I'd say something, but I've been drinking 11% ABV Norwegian microbrew for the past 3 hours...so, no.

lolz thats answer enough

Brooklyn Red Leg
12-31-2009, 03:02 AM
WTF is it with airplanes, that brings out the deranged control freak orgasms in government?

How come you can get into a bus or a cinema without being molested and having every millimetre of your body scanned for WMD?

(or is that going to change also?)

Oh great, give them MORE ideas.

fj45lvr
12-31-2009, 03:22 AM
don't say a single word to these jokers. It's your right.

Of course that won't stop them from making life miserable to fullest extent they can.

fj45lvr
12-31-2009, 03:24 AM
WTF is it with airplanes, that brings out the deranged control freak orgasms in government?

How come you can get into a bus or a cinema without being molested and having every millimetre of your body scanned for WMD?

(or is that going to change also?)


just wait till they get the first attacks at these types of things.... ask Israelis they can tell you all about it.

Matt Collins
12-31-2009, 06:08 PM
Good thing they didn't see me taking this photo I took of them hard at work yesterday at the Orlando airport:











http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x93/sonicspikesalbum/Goofing%20off/TSA-Orlando.jpg

speciallyblend
12-31-2009, 09:08 PM
i just avoid wasting my money and time now because airports are bs. drive don't fly.

Anti Federalist
12-31-2009, 11:33 PM
TSA = Thousands Standing Around

Minlawc
12-31-2009, 11:48 PM
YouTube - TSA Gangstaz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AWw7t5zj0)

Sorry, I had to post this one.

cheapseats
12-31-2009, 11:55 PM
i just avoid wasting my money and time now because airports are bs. drive don't fly.


It is safer for Conscientious Objectors, Resistors, Dissidents and Opposition, at the same time that it sends a big FUCK YOU to the New World Order Airline Industry.

The Infamous They are contriving for the People to be stationary. People who cannot move are easier to control or, failing that, to apprehend.

Anti Federalist
01-04-2010, 10:34 PM
One Blogger Complies with TSA Agent, One Doesn't. Guess Who's Smarter.

http://flexyourrights.org/tsa_at_bloggers_door

There's lots of web chatter about the two travel bloggers who got home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents. Following last week's attempted underwear bombing, the bloggers had posted a leaked TSA memo with instructions to airlines. The most familiar and ridiculed requirement blocks passengers' access to bathrooms, blankets, video entertainment, and carry-on bags during the last hour of flight.

So in an attempt to plug their own administrative leak, the new law enforcement agency did what law enforcement agencies do: they sent agents to investigate. While it's terrifying to imagine TSA agents harassing us at our homes beyond the confines of airport security, this should surprise no one.

Also not surprising is the fact that one of the two bloggers failed to flex his rights in the face of police intimidation and trickery.

According to the AP:

Steve 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 laptop 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.

As a consequence of falling for the agents' legal dirty tricks, Frischling has a near-zero chance of challenging the search. It's also notable, as Wired's "Threat Level" blog reports, that Frischling claims he actually spoke with a lawyer who suggested he cooperate with the agents!

Frischling says he received the document anonymously from someone using a Gmail account and determined, after speaking with an attorney, that he might as well cooperate with the agents since he had little information about the source and there was no federal shield law to protect him.

So either Frischling lied about ever contacting a lawyer or he contacted an inexperienced or incompetent lawyer who gave him terrible advice. After all, the agents didn't present him with a search warrant, but rather a "civil subpoena". Such administrative documents are not criminal warrants signed by a judge; they're the legal equivalent of "we request your help -- but if you don't we'll send our lawyers after you".

Chris Elliott, on the other hand, did not comply and got himself a lawyer. As a result he stands a fighting chance of beating the subpoena in court and ensuring TSA another self-inflicted embarrassment. And unlike Frischling, he won't have nightmares about the TSA -- or any law enforcement agency the TSA feels like sharing with -- using information pulled from his harddrive against him. Heck, it doesn't take much these days to find yourself facing felony charges.

For those of you who doubt the wisdom of not talking to police, please watch the famous "Never Talk to the Police" lecture by Regent University Law School Professor James Duane.

YouTube - Dont Talk to Police (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc)

dannno
01-04-2010, 10:38 PM
Good thing they didn't see me taking this photo I took of them hard at work yesterday at the Orlando airport:











http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x93/sonicspikesalbum/Goofing%20off/TSA-Orlando.jpg


LOL, good thing you don't use your real name on here ;)

Anti Federalist
01-04-2010, 11:10 PM
lol, good thing you don't use your real name on here ;)

:D

specsaregood
01-05-2010, 12:22 AM
As a consequence of falling for the agents' legal dirty tricks, Frischling has a near-zero chance of challenging the search. It's also notable, as Wired's "Threat Level" blog reports, that Frischling claims he actually spoke with a lawyer who suggested he cooperate with the agents!


Hopefully before next time the silly bastard will get him one of these doormats from target:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510N22VB8XL._AA260_.jpg
http://www.target.com/Come-Back-Warrant-Doormat/dp/B00020O572

akihabro
01-05-2010, 01:27 AM
Good thing they didn't see me taking this photo I took of them hard at work yesterday at the Orlando airport:


I'm sure that violates some federal crime. Should have walked over and said I need you all to take off your shoes, belts, empty your pockets or you won't be allowed to leave this area!

Reason
01-05-2010, 01:29 AM
Hopefully before next time the silly bastard will get him one of these doormats from target:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510N22VB8XL._AA260_.jpg
http://www.target.com/Come-Back-Warrant-Doormat/dp/B00020O572 (http://www.target.com/Come-Back-Warrant-Doormat/dp/B00020O572)


This item is out of stock.

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