{"id":1580,"date":"2008-10-23T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2008-10-23T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:18:41","slug":"security-theatre-chronicles-kip-hawley-is-still-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/23\/security-theatre-chronicles-kip-hawley-is-still-an-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Theatre Chronicles: Kip Hawley is *Still* an Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, I noted <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/17\/the-security-theatre-chronicles-part-374\/\">this great Jeffery Goldberg article<\/a> demonstrating what a joke TSA security continues to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Bruce Schneier was involved, and he points us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/blog\/2008\/10\/tsas-take-on-atlantic-article.html\">TSA head Kip Hawley&#8217;s response<\/a>, noting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, there&#8217;s not really anything to his response. It&#8217;s obvious he doesn&#8217;t want to admit that they&#8217;ve been checking ID&#8217;s all this time to no purpose whatsoever, so he just emits vague generalities like a frightened squid filling the water with ink. Yes, some of the stunts in article are silly (who cares if people fly with Hezbollah T-shirts?) so that gives him an opportunity to minimize the real issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Watch-lists and identity checks are important and effective security measures. We identify dozens of terrorist-related individuals a week and stop No-Flys regularly with our watch-list process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is simply impossible that the TSA catches dozens of terrorists every week. If it were true, the administration would be trumpeting this all over the press &#8212; it would be an amazing success story in their war on terrorism. But note that Hawley doesn&#8217;t exactly say that; he calls them &#8220;terrorist-related individuals.&#8221; Which means exactly what? People so dangerous they can&#8217;t be allowed to fly for any reason, yet so innocent they can&#8217;t be arrested &#8212; even under the provisions of the Patriot Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ayup.\u00c2\u00a0 Kip Hawley is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/09\/29\/howto-make-a-kip-haw.html\">still an idiot<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 When Obama and Congress are looking for budget fat to cut next year, they should start at the TSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, I noted this great Jeffery Goldberg article demonstrating what a joke TSA security continues to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Bruce Schneier was involved, and he points us to TSA head Kip Hawley&#8217;s response, noting: Unfortunately, there&#8217;s not really anything to his response. It&#8217;s obvious he doesn&#8217;t want to admit that they&#8217;ve been checking ID&#8217;s all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}