Secretary Napolitano tells TSA Goons..Keep Checking Laptops at Border..

The TSA are now the iPolice? Never know when they might find a picture of a woman breast feeding her baby.. or some business person with an illegal copy of Hanna Montana on their laptop (put there by their kids). No sir.. we gotta round these people up and punish them..

I guess real terrorists aren't smart enough to FTP stuff from a foreign server... or Fed-Ex a dual-layered DVD into the country. We have to pay TSA Goons $40,000 a year to stand around an harass American Travelers. Real change we can believe in..

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http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1251393255852.shtm


Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced new directives to enhance and clarify oversight for searches of computers and other electronic media at U.S. ports of entry—a critical step designed to bolster the Department’s efforts to combat transnational crime and terrorism while protecting privacy and civil liberties.

“Keeping Americans safe in an increasingly digital world depends on our ability to lawfully screen materials entering the United States,” said Secretary Napolitano.

The new directives address the circumstances under which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can conduct border searches of electronic media—consistent with the Department’s Constitutional authority to search other sensitive non-electronic materials, such as briefcases, backpacks and notebooks, at U.S. borders.

on their laptop in the first place.

Those bits, bytes, and files will never find a way to get past someone wearing a uniform!

I can't help but feel Napolitano's talents would be better utilized keeping the crazy yokels here in check. They've gone completely rabid. (And fwiw, Obama didn't do Utah any favors giving Huntsman that ambassadorship.)