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I'm so honored and reassured: a member of the friendly TSA TwitterTeam writes to tell me that the TSA poses no threat to my personal rights, liberties or DNA

What a wonderful government we have!

In response to my earlier re-tweet of someone’s Twitter message that contained a link to a February 26 online news story entitled Genetic Patdown: Homeland Security plan for DNA screening could quickly lead to other uses, abuses (by Katie Drummond at The Daily). yesterday I was honored to get a personal tweet response from a member of the “TSABlog Team”!

TSA Blog Team

@ FYA – TSA is not testing and has no plans to use any technology capable of testing DNA. [link omitted; see at bottom]

Their outlink led to a post on the TSA blog (“TSA Testing DNA? No Way!“) that noted that the DHS is doing preliminary testing with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – which already uses DNA testing in some cases to establish familial relationships in refugee processing – and provided no reassurances whatsoever, that DHS won’t be rolling out the new technology via the TSA as well:

DHS S&T expects to receive a prototype DNA analyzer device this summer to conduct a preliminary evaluation of whether this kind of technology could be considered for future use. At this time, there are no DHS customers, nor is there a timeline for deployment, for this kind of technology – this is a simply a preliminary test of how the technology performs.

See? Simply a preliminary test of a prototype by the science division of Homeland Security. TSA certainly ain’t using it NOW, and us bloggers at TSA certainly haven’t been told that Something Wicked Comes Our Way, at least not yet. Just like we had no CLUE that the “naked body scanners” the science guys were checking earlier would EVER be implemented.

But there’s alot more Orwellian here than the Doublespeak. I encourage you to read a blog post by another tweeter:

Federal Government Objects To One Of My Tweets

Here’s one of their observations:

“the TSA Blog Team is using a different short link url for each person they contact regarding this issue. They’ve contacted dozens so far. By having a unique link for each individual, this allows the TSA to monitor who clicks through to their blog post and who doesn’t. More monitoring of We The People.”

If you wanna rack up some TSA visits on my behalf, here’s the short link they gave me: .

More later.

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  1. AllanJensen
    March 1st, 2011 at 15:20 | #1

    The TSA Poses no threat, hahaha. And by the way, never mind the man behind the curtain.

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