The Transportation Security Adminstration hates to look bad.
And lately, it hasn’t had much luck looking good. For the most part, the big scandals haven’t been much to make hay, and really, the TSA is just doing its job. Then again, calling it your job, doesn’t make it right.
On Saturday, the TSA blog proudly noted that there are no children on the No Fly List. At least not that the organization knows of. According to Blogger Bob, an alleged TSA agent who writes on the government sponsored website, says that the group hates every time some news organization shows the picture of a little kid and asks, “Do you think this 8 year old is a terrorist?”
“Anything involving kids or cats gets tons of mileage and everybody starts tweeting and retweeting that there’s an 8 year old on the no fly list,” Blogger Bob wrote.
A few times, according to Bob, a child’s name is the same or looks the same — and by the same, he means kind of like it but not necessarily the same. This has led to confusion on why a little kid or 101 year old man would have a bomb in his underpants. The accusations and such are uncomfortable and the TSA comes across looking a little foolish — a role the TSA plays very well, according to many media reports.
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