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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Former O"Hare TSA Agent Spills Secrets

A former Transportation Security Administration agent at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago revealed a number of secrets from his time as a TSA agent, alleging agents laughed at passengers’ naked X-ray images and used racial profiling.

Jason Edward Harrington, who was employed at O’Hare from 2007 until last year, said the agency’s “day-to-day operations represented an “abuse of public trust and funds,” he wrote in an article for Politico.

Harrington said up until 2010, TSA officers were provided with a “Selectee Passport List,” which listed 12 nations — including Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, and others– that automatically triggered enhanced passenger screening.

When TSA first introduced full body scanners, Harrington said workers stationed in an “image operator” room would review scans of passengers’ bodies.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Koch-owned pipeline spills 17,000 gallons of oil in Texas

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Koch-owned pipeline spills 17,000 gallons of oil in Texas

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Rally at World War II Memorial Spills into Street

NBC Washington
October 13, 2013

Members of the Million Vet March were planning on gathering at the World War II Memorial on Sunday despite the memorial being closed due to the government shutdown, but that protest has taken a more political tone.

According to a statement on the group’s website, they feel military personnel and veterans are “being used a political pawns in the ongoing government shutdown and budget crisis.” Organizers say they are not a political leaning group, but call the shutting down of memorials “a despicable act of cowardice.”

Full story here.

This article was posted: Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 10:17 am