, 2008-03-20
Recently, I was going through an airport with my shoes, coat, jacket, and belt off as well as with my carry-on bag, briefcase, and laptop all separated for easy inspection. I was heading through security at the Washington D.C., Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, or "National" as we locals call it. As I passed through the new magnetometer which gently puffed air all over my body -- which to me seems to be a cross between a glaucoma test and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -- a TSA employee absent-mindedly asked if he could "inspect" my laptop computer. While the inspection was cursory, the situation immediately gave me pause: What was in my laptop anyway?
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I'm curious when you had this experience, since the head of TSA said last February that (1) he was not aware that it was going on and (2) he claims to have put a stop to this practice. I'm not sure which bothers me more -- that it was going on, that the head of TSA didn't know about it, or that it might be still going on without him knowing it.
http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2008/02/hooray-bloggers.html
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