TSA SOP
 

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Blott...g_2_091208.pdf

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Homeland Security/TSA = FOOTBALL-BAT!!!
 

From our Company "News/Info Letter" today!!

From ABC News

Massive TSA Security Breach As Agency Gives Away Its Secrets

In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) inadvertently posted online its entire airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers. The most sensitive parts of the 93-page Standard Operation Procedures were apparently redacted in a way that computer savvy individuals easily overcame. "This is an appalling and astounding breach of security that terrorists could easily exploit," said Clark Kent Ervin, the former inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security. "The TSA should immediately convene an internal investigation and discipline those responsible."

I haven't flown in years. A quick perusal of the manual tells me I won't care to do so anytime soon.

Although I suppose I could annoy them by producing a printed copy of their manual and reading it as I went through screening....:D

What now?
 

So what is the next step? If the cat is out of the bag..what happens next?

Everyone goes on the "List". :rolleyes:

This is the government transparency we were promised by the Great Deceiver, er, I mean "the One."

How's that CHANGE workin' out for ya? :bong:

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Gale D. Rossides
 

I guess this was bound to happen..... the TSA has no leadership, well, unless you think a female college grad with zero federal law enforcement skills or training is considered a "leader".

No wonder the FBI continues to shoot and kill each other when they have to draw their weapons, this "gifted" individual was also on the board at the FLETC. Again, no law enforcement experience or training and she's teaching others to be law enforcement officers......brilliant!!!

(Want to bet it's a female in charge of firearms training at FLETC?)

Let's just put another no experience female in charge of say, homeland security? Oh shit we did.

And now a no experience jr senator runs the country.

We have become a nation of complete idiots.

Team Sergeant


Gale D. Rossides
Acting Administrator


As Acting Administrator, Gale Rossides oversees the management of the 50,000-strong workforce and the security operations of 450 federalized airports throughout the U.S., including the widely-acclaimed Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS), and the security regime for highways, railroads, ports and mass transit systems. Rossides represents the face of TSA to many stakeholders and partners throughout the world.

Rossides was one of the six original federal executives hand-picked in 2002 to build TSA – the largest public mobilization since World War II. From December 2002 through September 2004, she served as TSA's Associate Administrator/Chief Support Systems Officer. In 2004, Rossides was tapped to serve as a senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Management for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In 2005, Rossides returned to TSA. Her proven leadership skills in organizational development, business process improvement and security operations provided key expertise in transforming TSA into the more flexible and dynamic agency that it is today.

Rossides' accomplishments include re-engineering a multi-layered security strategy; increasing comprehensive intelligence-sharing; developing network-centric, collaborative partnerships with stakeholders; establishment of Transportation Sector Network Management (TSNM); creation of TSA's Senior Leadership Team (SLT); and the inclusion of core competencies in critical incident management, acquisition and program management.

Rossides also launched leadership development programs as a proactive agency maturity strategy. She created innovative workforce programs to encourage communication, collaboration and conflict management to facilitate the development of an inclusive environment across a multi-generational, diverse and engaged workforce.

Prior to joining TSA, Rossides was appointed as the co-chair of a Blue Ribbon panel to overhaul the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in the aftermath of the Waco event. She served at ATF for 8 years as the director of all law enforcement, regulatory and leadership training; she also served for 6 years as a member of Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's (FLETC) Board of Directors for state and local law enforcement training.
Gale Rossides earned her bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts and is a graduate of George Washington University's Masters in Public Administration for Federal Executives program.

As you outlined this goes way beyond "just" TSA. There is an overall lack of competency, focus and mission understanding within DHS. This is a systemic and structural problem. DHS is as dysfunctional as Congress designed it. Span of control limits were violated, there is no central authority.

I could go on....

In response to a fatally flawed design, politicians choose to simply drive another nail into the collapsing structure.

After reading this it just makes my head hurt....... :rolleyes: This administration is so FU it isn't even funny anymore....... :p What's next? ............. :eek:

Big Teddy :munchin

Breach
 

TSA inadvertently got it's screening manual out on the internet. ABC news has the story.

It's 93 pages long - but click into the link. Work up and down the pages. Damn!

Several samples of IDs.

v/r
phil

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Blott...08.pdf#page=58

Administrative leave
 

TSA puts 5 employees on leave over online posting
By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press Writer
12 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Five Transportation Security Administration employees have been placed on administrative leave since it was discovered that sensitive guidelines about airport passenger screening were posted on the Internet.

The move was disclosed as senators questioned administration officials Wednesday about the second embarrassing security flap at the Homeland Security Department in as many weeks. The Secret Service, also part of the sprawling department, is investigating how a couple of would-be reality TV stars were able to get into a White House state dinner without an invitation.

Assistant Homeland Security secretary David Heyman told senators Wednesday that a full investigation into the Internet security lapse is under way and the TSA employees have been taken off duty pending the results of that probe. He did not say how many employees were put on leave. A TSA official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation said five employees were placed on administrative leave Tuesday.

The Homeland Security Department has also stopped posting documents with security information either in full or in part on the Internet until the TSA review is complete, Heyman told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee.

The passenger screening document was improperly on the Internet in a way that could offer insight into how to sidestep security.

"Even what appeared to be an innocent posting to help federal contractors can have serious consequences for our security," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Wednesday.

Heyman said he did not know who at TSA signed off on the document going on the Web.

The TSA removed the document from the Internet on Sunday after the lapse was reported on a blog.


Full story link here

I'm still wondering "why" the CIA feels a need to identify itself to a TSA agent ???????

Or the need for showing "Creds" CONUS ?????

Armed CIA agents on US soil???? Only in the movies I think.

So why the need for CIA Creds flying CONUS?

That's exactly what I was wondering.

The Bourne Identification...coming soon to an airport near you. :rolleyes:

They have already gone to a secret handshake in lieu if ID cards. Everything is under control.