Query...Is any group doing surveillance on TSA?

[HereSince1628]

Just wondering who is guarding the guards guarding us.

Is it legal to video tape TSA officers from the "unsecure" side of the metal detectors?

My bank account is getting low...they still serve cold burgers in jail, yes?

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040225-031633-4553r.htm

[ma4t]

1. abolish TSA

I've said this before but here goes again:

1. I have flown on business for nearly 30 years and never had any problem with my packed items arriving intact except for the occasional late bag. It took less than a year of TSA being in operation for me to have something stolen as I went through the security screening process.

2. The incident with the Guilford College student proved conclusively that TSA does nothing but impose a net increase in risk to the traveling public by disarming all law-abiding passengers while failing to prevent weapons being carried by those who are determined to do so.

Frankly, I think the TSA is just a clever ploy to undermine every American's opinion of the ability of the government to do anything right.

[cosmicdot]

2. a clever ploy

interesting insight

[mobuto]

3. On the contrary

while TSA is far from perfect, I've seen a lot more professionalism from their screeners than I ever did from their private predecessors. They're much more courteous, more alert, and I feel safer. Will they necessarily stop Bomb X? I don't know. But every time I fly, and that's very often, I find TSA to be more helpful and less obtrusive.

but impose a net increase in risk to the traveling public by disarming all law-abiding passengers

All passengers were supposed to be disarmed long before 9/11. But rest assured that if any terrorists smuggle boxcutters onto planes anywhere in the world, the passengers will eat them alive regardless of weapons. This one area that was completely changed by 9/11.

[HereSince1628]

4. I was asking because TSA can impose fines for "attitude."

Maybe no one else sees arbitrarily imposed fines in the midteen hundreds as a problem. But if Bob Barr is worried about it. Liberals probably ought to take a look at this again.

It seemed to me someone should be watching the watchers, on video, to insure that there is available resources for defendents to challenge unfair applications of authority...

I wondered if anybody had or is doing that...but I'll just crawl back under my rock now.