TSA lies, hides the truth and punishes whistleblowers, claim federal air marshals
by: Daniel Barker
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Everyone’s least favorite agency, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) — the one responsible for making passing through an airport as miserable and demeaning an experience as possible — has apparently made a policy of over-extending its internal administrative powers as well.
According to a recent National Review article, top-level TSA management figures “intentionally hid embarrassing information about supervisors’ misconduct and targeted employees who sought to expose the truth.”
This was accomplished by repeatedly and systematically invoking an agency-specific secrecy designation called Sensitive Security Information (SSI). Information can be kept from the public in the name of transportation security, but whistleblowers from within the agency and others are accusing TSA brass of using the designation to protect themselves from scrutiny.
One of those from within the agency’s ranks who has made charges against TSA management is former air marshal Jose Job Lacson, who was fired from the agency for releasing SSI material online. Lacson claims that the “material” he published was no more than a couple of mere guesses about the agency’s attrition rate, in a response to a reader’s questions on a website where he was active.
Lacson claims that the real reason for the TSA’s invocation of the SSI designation was to punish him for having exposed his superiors in Miami for pursuing policies that violated federal travel regulations.
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