Jet Man

Wings with jets fueled by kerosene.

TSA Data Spying

The Transportation Security Agency, operating under the auspices of Homeland Security, had publicly pledged two years ago--in official notices describing the Secure Flight program--that it "will not receive" or have access to dossiers on American travelers compiled by a Beltway contractor.

That promise turned out to be untrue, according to a report published Friday by DHS' privacy office. The commercial data "made its way directly to TSA, contrary to the express statements in the fall privacy notices about the Secure Flight program," the report says.

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In an interview with CNET News.com earlier this year, Peter Pietra, TSA's director of privacy policy, downplayed those concerns. Pietra said the agency disagrees with GAO's interpretation of the law.


The TSA government agency disagrees with a law, so they disregard the law.

Liquidity

In a song.

Cops Shot Man In Back

New Orleans police disarmed law-abiding citizens. After the citizens were disarmed, the police could more easily shoot unarmed citizens.


Witness: New Orleans cops shot man in back as he ran away
POSTED: 7:19 p.m. EST, December 18, 2006

By Drew Griffin, James Polk and Kate Albright-Hanna

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans police lined up "like at a firing range" and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN.

It marks the first time a witness has come forward publicly with information about the shooting of Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally retarded man whose death has sparked a police investigation and a grand jury probe into what happened in and around the Danziger Bridge that day.

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