{"id":4784,"date":"2011-10-19T14:20:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2011-10-19T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:20:44","slug":"even-sen-leahy-knows-you-can-take-pictures-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2011\/10\/19\/even-sen-leahy-knows-you-can-take-pictures-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Sen. Leahy Knows You *Can* Take Pictures Here . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an oversight hearing in which the TSA was (quite properly) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/joshgerstein\/1011\/TSA_chief_John_Pistole_slammed_at_Senate_hearing.html\">criticized for a wide array of wrong steps and misguided policies<\/a>, Sen. Leahy (D-VT) revealed himself as someone who appreciates the right to take photos:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leahy, an amateur photographer, also faulted TSA workers for telling travelers they can&#8217;t photograph checkpoints\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding when they see a well-known senator being put through the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do provide amusement for people taking cell phone pictures of me until the TSA agent tells them there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a law against taking photographs [of checkpoints]. Of course,\u00c2\u00a0there is no such law,&#8221; groused Leahy, who as Judiciary Committee chairman ought to know. &#8220;Maybe you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll miss your plane because they&#8217;re annoyed that you want to protect your rights.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep at it, Sen. Leahy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an oversight hearing in which the TSA was (quite properly) criticized for a wide array of wrong steps and misguided policies, Sen. Leahy (D-VT) revealed himself as someone who appreciates the right to take photos: Leahy, an amateur photographer, also faulted TSA workers for telling travelers they can&#8217;t photograph checkpoints\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding when they [&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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}