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The Northerner

(5,040 posts)
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 04:40 PM Aug 2012

TSA gone wild



The TSA has become an acronym many Americans have come to dread. From too-close-for-comfort pat-downs to virtually nude snapshots, people are accusing the Transportation Security Administration of going too far time and time again. The federal government has spent an estimated 60 billion dollars on the TSA since 9/11, but the agency has seen an approval rating of only 54 percent as of late which, oddly enough, is more support than even President Obama or Mitt Romney has received in the polls. So why is the TSA more popular than politicians?

Amie Stepanovich, associate litigation counsel for EPIC, joins RT's Liz Wahl to discuss this.
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midnight

(26,624 posts)
1. Regardless of how the P.R. for TSA dept. is using polls to boost their ratings- NO RADIATION
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 06:15 PM
Aug 2012

is SAFE.....

Lack of independent information is not making it's way to the general public...

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
2. Yeah, and the Germans accepted their own version of the TSA under Hitler.
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 01:07 PM
Aug 2012

Fascism creeps in slowly. Ironically, those who fought against the Nazis are the most likely to support the TSA. Go figure.

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