TSA Mission creep hits roadblock

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: David Lesher <wb8foz () panix com>
> Date: November 12, 2009 2:59:54 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net (David Farber)
> Subject: TSA Mission creep hits roadblock

> It looks like TSA's plans have changed, for now...
>
> Bierford was the campaign worker for Ron Paul who recorded
> his interrogation and posed it.
>
> //
>    WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. Transportation
> Security Administration has changed it regulations to require its
> agents to focus entirely on flight security matters, an official
> said.
>    Steven Bierfeldt, the director of development for the
> Campaign for Liberty, said his lawsuit against the federal agency
> resulted in TSA officials requiring their airport screeners to avoid
> policing airport crimes not related to flight security, the St.
> Louis Post-Dispatch said Thursday.
>    "It's a huge victory for civil liberties that TSA agents no
> longer have free rein to conduct sweeping, baseless searches and
> detain passengers who don't pose a threat to flight safety,"
> Bierfeldt said in a statement.
>    Bierfeldt, who was represented in his lawsuit by the
> American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit after being stopped and
> questioned by TSA screeners at Lambert-St. Louis International
> Airport in March.
>    The airport incident was prompted by a metal box containing
> $4,700 that Bierfeldt attempted to transport through an airport
> screening checkpoint.
>    The Post-Dispatch said TSA spokeswoman Lauren Gaches
> confirmed the federal agency's policy regarding cash was altered,
> but would not offer details of agency directives.
> \\
>
> But they still will not say what they think their job is....



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