Weber said the agents made it clear that her mother could not board the plane unless they were able to inspect the diaper.
According to Weber, it was her idea to remove the diaper so it could be inspected and they could make their flight.
“They were doing their job according to the instructions of the TSA and their policies,” Weber said, later adding that the options offered them were to remove the diaper or “she was not going to get on the plane.”
On Sunday, Weber told CNN that the June 18 incident occurred when she and her mother were traveling from northwest Florida to Michigan, where her mother was planning to move in with other relatives prior to moving into an assisted-living facility.
“My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia,” Weber said Sunday. “She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel.”
I am sorry to say that the TSA has absolutely lost it’s capacity to use simple logic. BTW, how’s that burka checking coming along? Afraid of being called racists? When is this stupidity going to end? When will we actually begin using behavior profiling?
A wildfire crests over the hills above Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico overnight Sunday. The nuclear lab has been forced to close because of the fast-moving fire. (Luis Sa¡nchez Saturno/The New Mexican/Associated Press)
The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant moved closer to ending its radiation crisis on Monday with the start of a system to cool damaged reactors that could also help avoid dumping highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.
The move was hailed as “a giant step forward” by Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
“This is critical in two aspects,” Hosono told a news conference. “First, the system will solve the problem of contaminated water, which gave all sorts of worries to the world. Second, it will enable stable cooling of reactors.”
Reactors at the plant, on the Pacific coast 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, went into meltdown after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out their cooling systems.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co is running out of space to store a huge amount of radioactive water that has accumulated during efforts to cool the reactors. It hopes the new system, which decontaminates water and re-circulates it to reduce reactor temperatures, will help achieve its goal of bringing the plant to stability by next January.
More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday.
Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has been releasing radioactive material into the environment since the week of March 11, when the quake and tsunami caused core meltdowns.
Sorry, I am in the midst of moving an office and have no internet service. It’s pretty tough trying to do this from a phone. LOL
Note to Maureen Dowd: We told you he was a fence sitter. You helped get him elected. You should be so proud.
As a community organizer, Obama developed impressive empathetic gifts. But now he is misusing them. It’s not enough to understand how everybody in the room thinks. You have to decide which ones in the room are right, and stand with them. A leader is not a mediator or an umpire or a convener or a facilitator.
Sometimes, as Chris Christie put it, “the president has got to show up.”With each equivocation, the man in the Oval Office shields his identity and cloaks who the real Barack Obama is.
Some of the 2,200 databases that the IRS uses to manage and process taxpayer data are not configured securely, are running out-of-date software, and no longer receive security patches. Nor has the IRS fully implemented its plans to complete vulnerability scans of its databases – although the IRS spent more than $1.1 million in software licenses and support costs for a database vulnerability scanning and compliance assessment tool, it did not fully implement it.
TIGTA used database vulnerability assessment software to conduct remote scans of the primary databases for 13 applications supporting critical tax administration business processes. Its review found high and medium risk vulnerabilities, as classified by the scanning tool in each of the 13 databases.
The government paid millions of dollars last year in farm subsidies to wealthy city-dwellers – many of them receiving taxpayer dollars not to farm their rural country estates, according to a new report by the Environmental Working Group.
Airport screeners around the county have chosen the nation’s largest federal employee union to represent them in collective bargaining talks with the government.
The American Federation of Government Employees won a runoff vote to represent 44,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration.
Federal officials tallying the votes say AFGE received 8,903 votes, while National Treasury Employees Union got 8,447 votes. The runoff was held after neither union received more than 50 percent of votes during the first election earlier this year.
Must have had a few dead people vote as well.
The vote came after TSA head John Pistole agreed in February to grant screeners limited collective bargaining rights for the first time since the agency was formed a decade ago.
