Good ‘ol Government Attic yanked down hundred of TSA complaint letters through FOIA, and the results are eye-opening:
Read together, hundreds of letters complaining about Transportation Safety Administration security excesses acquire a horrible and sickening power.
Not in the graphic descriptions of genitals groped, terminal ailments revealed or utter powerlessness before government endured. Rather, it’s how often in the face of violation and outrage the victims somehow manage dignity, courtesy and self-effacement.
Governmentattic.org, a non-profit website whose slogan is ‘videre licet,’ roughly translated from Latin as “permitting to see” posted 205 pages of these letters from 2010 obtained through the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Airline passengers from all over the country addressed complaints to President Obama, Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, senators, congressmen, their local newspapers and Anderson Cooper at CNN…
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Filed under: FOI At Work | Tagged: Freedom of Information Act, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, United States Department of Homeland Security |
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