TSA agents have gone back to harassing passengers instead of people who write about them, Wired.com, reported today, stating that the Transportation Security Administration has dropped its subpoenas against two bloggers who reported about changes in security after the Christmas Day Crotchbomber failed attempt to bring down a flight over Detroit.
In case you’ve been up in the air, or just not paying attention, two bloggers who write about transportation issues were issued subpoenas by the TSA to reveal the the people who provided new security information sent to roughly 10,000 people at airports around the world or face up to a year in jail.
Seriously, the TSA went to both of these guy’s home and demanded who told them that the TSA was upgrading security measures after a Nigerian man boarded a plane in Amsterdam for Detroit with the explosive equivalent of six wet burritos in his underwear.
One blogger, Chris Elliot, wisely told the TSA to consult his attorney, the other, Steven Frischling, who writes for Flying with Fish, was threatened by TSA agents that his side job of blogging for KLM Airlines would be killed — in part because he could easily be placed on the TSA’s No Fly list (something apparently the TSA is willing to do to bloggers in Connecticut instead of Nigerians whose own parents beg TSA to do) — making flying kind of hard — and a death sentence for a travel writer, unless he just wants to become an Amtrac writer.
The TSA agents then took Frischling’s computer, tried to copy the hard drive and screwed it up.
“I can essentially use the computer, but I don’t know for how long,” Frischling told Wired. “Whoever did this thing, did it fast and dirty and not to my benefit.”

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This is just what us bloggers would have needed, the government telling us what we can and can not publish on our blogs. I find it ironic how quickly TSA dropped the idea of Subpoenas.
We’re guessing the whole investigation was dropped by the TSA because the NSA had already downloaded both bloggers email, identified the informants and rushed them off on a black jet to Egypt. These infractions could easily fall under the Patriot Act — and who knows what could have happened then. Scary, scary stuff.