The Joke's On Us (Mark Steyn On Obama's KeyStone Cops Approach To Islamic Terrorism Alert)

National Review ^ | 1/02/2010 | Mark Steyn

[KeyLargo]

TSA appointee violated privacy, lied to Congress about it.

(H/T AoSHQ Headlines) Well, at least Erroll Souther’s not a tax cheat, right? Puts him ahead of the pack for this administration, it does.

The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, documents obtained by The Washington Post show.

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Southers first described the episode in his October affidavit, telling the Senate panel that two decades ago he asked a San Diego Police Department employee to access confidential criminal records about the boyfriend. Southers said he had been censured by superiors at the FBI. He described the incident as isolated and expressed regrets about it.

The committee approved his nomination Nov. 19. One day later, Southers wrote to Lieberman and Collins saying his first account was incorrect. After reviewing documents, he wrote, he recalled that he had twice conducted the database searches himself, downloaded confidential law enforcement records about his wife’s boyfriend and passed information on to the police department employee, the letter said.

http://moelane.com/2010/01/01/tsa-appointee-violated-privacy-lied-to-congress-about-it/

[expatpat]

It’s an open question whether Obama is a closet Muslim or not, but he is unquestionably a Muslim Sympathizer.

[hocndoc]

Someone called this “Security Theater” the other day - and it’s improvisational, with out any real hope of deterring terrorists who get as far as the security gates. (If I may extend the analogy a bit: The rest of us are stuck in standing room only, and can’t even make comments or rustle a candy wrapper for fear of being refused entry to the venue.)