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TSA is secretly watching you in newest surveillance program

Posted by M. C. on August 3, 2018

In reality, anyone who refuses to kowtow to any command a TSA agent issues could be labeled a troublemaker.

In other words don’t pretend to have rights in front of a government lackey. A main activity of government programs is-thinking up ways to guarantee the program.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/31/tsa-transportation-security-administration-secretly-watching-quiet-skies-surveillance-column/862810002/

James Bovard

Excessive yawning, strong body odor — these are two ways you could become a target in TSA’s new secret program, which treats ordinary people like terrorists.

If you fall asleep or use the bathroom during your next flight, those incriminating facts could be added to your federal dossier. Likewise, if you use your laptop or look at noisy children seated nearby with a “cold, penetrating stare,” that may be included on your permanent record. If you fidget, sweat or have “strong body odor” — BOOM! the feds are onto you.

Welcome to the latest profiling idiocy from the Transportation Security Administration. TSA’s Quiet Skies surveillance program is spurring federal air marshals to target dozens of Americans each day on the flimsiest of pretexts. The secret program, first exposed by Jana Winter in The Boston Globe, is security theater at its best…  Read the rest of this entry »

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TSA surveilling ordinary travelers’ behavior through secretive program: report | TheHill

Posted by M. C. on July 30, 2018

We know you are guilty, we just don’t know of what, but we will think of something. Our budget depends on it.

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/399414-tsa-surveilling-ordinary-travelers-behavior-through-secretive-program

BY BRETT SAMUELS

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun collecting information on travelers through a program that monitors citizens not on a terror watch list or suspected of a crime, The Boston Globe reported.

The Globe reported Saturday that the program, titled “Quiet Skies,” aims to eliminate threats posed by “unknown or partially known terrorists.”

Undercover air marshals reportedly document passengers’ behavior, including whether they use technology when traveling, whether they change clothes at the airport, how closely they stand to the boarding area and other patterns…

Some air marshals told the newspaper that they view the program as a time-consuming and costly effort to track passengers who do not pose a threat…

Be seeing you

TSA

Making Our Job…err America Safe

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