Security Forces Mobilize to the Threat

Rather than put resources into finding actual terrorist, the behemoth TSA has decided to throw all its resources into unearthing the source of a leaked memo sent to 26,000 agencies, corporations, and individuals around the world (including Saudia Arabia, you know, the place from which 19 of the original terrorist came from). Obviously TSA believes that when you send something to your closest 26,000 "friends" it should be kept a secret.

Here's a bit from the NY Times article "TSA Subpoenas Bloggers, Demands Names of Sources":

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.

My humble opinion is that the half dozen steet agents and 40 or 50 backroom agents would be better applied sifting through intelligence to connect the dots, like 'Nigerian' trained by al Qaeda, Nigerian father tells US Embassy his son has gone rogue fundamentalist, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab granted a US Visa but the UK deems him too dangerous to grant a visa.

Oh no! The US authorities are too smart to waste time connecting dots when they can be out harrassing bloggers release such dangerous items as the new flying restrictions. Yeah, those terrorists would never figure out that the restrictions might be tightened! Why waste time connecting dots when you can be beating up on innocent third parties! Meanwhile, Obama gets in front of the microphones and announces he wants all of his agencies to cooperate and connect the dots. Obviously the TSA hasn't yet gotten that Obama memo. Any guesses how many years it will take for TSA to read the memo?

I remember watching the Keystone Kops when I was a kid. Now I get free entertainment watching the alphabet soup agencies in the US outdo the comedy favourites!

The fact that Obama can be outraged with this agencies (TSA, CIA, FBI, NSA, DHS, etc., etc.) for failing to connect the dots and at the same time watch agencies that should be busy connecting dots go after innocent third parties speaks volumes for the idiocy that passes for a government in the good old US of A.