Leadership Journal

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Secretary Continues Her Tour of Components

February 6, 2009 – Secretary Napolitano visits U.S. Customs & Border Protection headquarters and meets with CBP employees.February 6, 2009 – Secretary Napolitano visits U.S. Customs & Border Protection headquarters and meets with CBP employees.

February 5, 2009 – U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan (front) and Special Agent Gregory Tate (rear) brief Secretary Napolitano on the presidential limousine, nicknamed The Beast.February 5, 2009 – U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan (front) and Special Agent Gregory Tate (rear) brief Secretary Napolitano on the presidential limousine, nicknamed "The Beast."

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posted by DHS at 5:40 PM

2 Comments:

  • Secretary Napolitano, while conducting your review of agencies under your Department it seems TSA is pulling a fast one against the citizens of this country.

    Millimeter Wave Whole Body Imagers have been deployed in many airports across the country. When these machines were rolled out we were assured by TSA that there use would be voluntary since they are nothing less than an invasive strip search.

    TSA Representatives told how innocent images from these machines are, so innocent they are ok to be viewed by young children, yet when challenged to have themselves and their own children scanned and to post the images on the TSA Blog they refused.

    Also the TSA employee viewing these supposedly innocent images are hidden away from the public with restrictions to not have any recording devices on their person. Does this sound like innocent images? I think not.

    It would seem that the use of MMW Whole Body Imagers by TSA being voluntary was nothing but a big lie told to Citizens who travel so the uproar over there use would stop.

    These machines should be removed from service as was done happened in the EU. They are an invasion of a persons privacy and for me a reason to never travel by air if there use is mandatory.

    TSA has little support from the public today, forcing citizens to endure an electronic strip search will further erode public opinion.

    Reported on the TSA Blog:

    "From a link on Flyer Talk, I have just read this and am extremely troubled:

    "An experimental program that begins today at Tulsa International Airport will test whether the $170,000 body scanners could replace $10,000 metal detectors that have screened airline passengers since 1973. Airports in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City will join the test in the next two months, TSA spokesman Christopher White said.

    The scanners aim to close a loophole by finding non-metallic weapons such as plastic and liquid explosives, which the TSA considers a major threat. The machines raise privacy concerns because their images reveal outlines of private body parts.

    "We're getting closer and closer to a required strip-search to board an airplane," said Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union."

    Strip searches are wrong on so many levels. What in heaven's name are you people thinking when you want to make such mandatory?"

    By Blogger RB, At February 18, 2009 11:59 AM  

  • I hope you will LISTEN to the concerns of the Border Patrol!
    They need backup! Not lip-service!

    They are protecting this country, don't you forget that for one single minute.
    The border is a dangerous place, and illegal aliens can be very violent when attempting to cross illegally; they have already driven over officers with vehicles, thrown grapefruit sized rocks, shot at officers with guns, thrown Molotov cocktails, etc.

    I do not want to see you do anything that will undermine their important work protecting our border.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, At February 19, 2009 7:11 PM  

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