Comments on: “TSA jails innocent traveler when he asks to file a complaint”

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 18:55:08 +0000

Let me clarify: when I referred to “lying to a federal investigator” being a felony, what I had in mind were the false statements of the TSA supervisor. His or her superiors in the TSA may consider such faslse statements acceptable or even admirable, but it appears to me that he committed a felony for which he is subject to prosecution without regard to the likes and dislikes of the TSA.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:34:13 +0000

captnhal–

You seem to be laboring under a misapprehension that TSA has a duty to satisfy the public. But their most important duty is to defend their employees. Considering all the terrorists plotting attacks on them every day, how could any responsible bureaucracy do any less?

By: captnhal

captnhal — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:50:53 +0000

@Hugo: a much better way to avoid such embarrassment is to fire those who commit job related crimes such as perjury. It will get rid of the vindictive employee and send a message to the others.

By: Igor

Igor — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:19:23 +0000

Bill, what about a Federal Investigator lying to YOU?

Just curious, IANAL.

By: DEM

DEM — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:46:50 +0000

Canvasback — touche. I stand corrected.

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:15:33 +0000

Lying to a federal investigator is a felony, isn’t it?

By: Canvasback

Canvasback — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:44:07 +0000

@Dem, We were with you right up until the main clause of your second sentence “it cannot possibly be supervised or function as designed.” Oh yes it is.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:22:02 +0000

The obvious way for TSA to avoid such embarrassments is to let their employee see the tape before he has to testify

By: marco73

marco73 — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:48:25 +0000

I certainly like to follow up with the wrongly accused, Mr. Vanderklok. Has he been able to fly out of Philly again? Is he on some sort of secret TSA watch list? Does he get all sorts of extra scrutiny? Has he had to deal with the same TSA supervisor that put him in jail?

Good for him to file the lawsuit. I can just imagine how discovery will go in this case.

By: DEM

DEM — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:04:24 +0000

The case against big government distilled into one occurrence. When massive government depends upon hundreds of thousands of employees who have no accountability and can essentially never be fired, it cannot possibly be supervised or function as designed.