They are now targeting Bloggers.
Via AP:
WASHINGTON – As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.
TSA special agents served subpoenas to travel bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott, demanding that they reveal who leaked the security directive to them. The government says the directive was not supposed to be disclosed to the public.
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 lap top 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.
“It literally showed up in my box,” Frischling told The Associated Press. “I do not know who it came from.” He said he provided the agents a signed statement to that effect.
In a Dec. 29 posting on his blog, Elliott said he had told the TSA agents at his house that he would call his lawyer and get back to them. Elliott said late Wednesday he could not comment until the legal issues had been resolved.
The TSA declined to say how many people were subpoenaed.
Nothing says Government incompetence better than targeting a bloggers who leak a document making the TSA look like a bunch of fools. I also notice that the Socialist Democrats are not happy about it either. I do not know why, as it is they who elected and instituted this large Government mess that we now have, they should be pleased that the Government is doing its imperialistic job. The way I see it, you vote for big Government, then don’t gripe when that big Government overreaches.
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Update: Reader Jeff passes on the info that the subpoenas have been dropped!
Isn’t it strange how nothing like this ever happens to the NYT or the WaPo when they print leaked documents.
I guess that’s because they’re journalists, and bloggers aren’t, right?
Exactly. Very well put.
Insty link to Boing-Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/31/tsa-drops-subpoena-i.html
Subpoenas dropped.
IMO, it’s not because it was such bad publicity, but because they done stole all the evidence they wanted by rousting them before the subpoenas were even issued, but YMMV.
Thanks Jeff!
I’ll add it.