The TSA sent armed agents to two bloggers’ homes to force them to disclose their source for a document they blogged detailing new screening procedures. That sounds somewhat unsurprising, except: the document was sent out to every airport and airline in the country and other airports internationally, more than 10,000 recipients, and it wasn’t classified.
Frischling, a freelance travel writer and photographer in Connecticut who writes a blog for the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, said the two agents who visited him arrived around 7 p.m. Tuesday, were armed and threatened him with a criminal search warrant if he didn’t provide the name of his source. They also threatened to get him fired from his KLM job and indicated they could get him designated a security risk, which would make it difficult for him to travel and do his job.
Wow. I feel safer.