TSA officials put on leave over airport security breach

[demoleft]

Source: bbc

US transport officials have been placed on administrative leave after details of security procedures at US airports were mistakenly posted online.

Assistant Homeland Security secretary David Heyman said a full investigation of the incident was under way.

The existence of the document, which detailed security screening procedures, was revealed on Sunday by a blog.

Information which had been blacked out for security reasons was easily retrievable using ordinary software.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8404598.stm

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oh my.

[rocktivity]

1. They ought to be placed on a good old-fashioned adminstrative

"LEAVE!!!"

But I guess it's only we "little people" who get fired.

How do you make a mistake like that? I'll be charitable and presume that the document was originally on the TSA intranet and somehow eroneously got "re-routed" onto their public server.


rocktivity

[AngryAmish]

8. government employees don't get fired

[notadmblnd]

2. with incompetent nitwits like this at the helm.. who needs enemies?

[JDPriestly]

3. Isn't Obama's Transportation Secretary a Republican?

Peoria Republican congressman Ray LaHood has been asked to be Transportation Secretary for the Obama Administration, a Republican source said today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=102&topic_id=4177607&mesg_id=4177607

Ray LaHood
Secretary of Transportation

Ray LaHood became the 16th Secretary of Transportation on January 23, 2009.
More about Ray LaHood...

http://www.dot.gov/bios/index.htm

Homeland Security Secretary is Napolitano, but the rank and file in the TSA is full of right-wingers I would bet. What do you want to bet that the guys who goofed were Republicans?

Hmmmmmmm!

Wonder what Fox News will have to say about this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. LOL...DOT webste...HUGE diversity FAIL.

At the top of the website, you see 2 men and 2 women, only one is Caucasian.

Then, as you scroll down, all you see is picture after picture of WASP men, until 2/3 of the way down the page.

Wouldn't be that noticeable if they had not made such a big deal of the "diversity" at the top of the page.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. does the document disclose from which institute for the criminally insane they hired for LAX?

just wondering, that is the greatest mystery of all - the walking bags of shit working for the TSA just aren't found naturally in our society.

[WriteDown]

7. I heard they bred DMV workers with IRS workers to produce...

TSA workers.

[WriteDown]

5. Paid leave no doubt. nt

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