Thursday, April 1, 2010

Am I More Crockett or More Tubbs?

This is the question that TSA 'Acting Administrator' must have surely been asking herself when she wrote the latest blog post on the TSA's very own blog.
Why else would the person-in-charge-by-default of an organization with a mandate from congress to search airline passengers for weapons or explosives, care about whether or not the fancy new airport scanners can detect 'small packages of powder-based drugs...smaller than a thumb print'?
The appeal of the Miami Vice lifestyle must be so overpowering to Acting Administrator Gale Rossides, that she is willing to ignore previous federal judges decisions. These decisions threw out cases based on the TSA overstepping their bounds by using their searches to uncover criminal acts.

Is it the 80s style clothes? The cars? The fancy speedboats? Or is it that Ms. Rossides is in charge of running, overseeing and providing guidance to an organization that she doesn't fully understand the mandate of?

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