August 19, 2005 | Screening TSA Traffic

It was a rather busy summer news week for the Transportation Security Administration.

• Leslie Miller of the AP found that toddlers were being snagged by the no-fly list
• Wired News's Kim Zetter and Reuters's Andy Sullivan both report (WN Reuters) that a group of Alaskans are suing the TSA to figure out how their data were used during Secure Flight testing and the Alaskan's PR guy, Bill Scannell, has a site with all the relevant pictures and lawsuit documents.
• Edward Hasbrouck of Practical Nomad fame comes out of semi-retirement with a round-up of recent Secure Flight news and an argument that the real scandal about using airline records (both foreign and domestic) is being ignored.
• I reported on Monday in Wired News that the Department of Homeland Security is pushing language in Congress that would significantly reduce Congressional oversight of Secure Flight, despite the program's recent privacy troubles.
• And finally, the Transportation Security Administration's chief spokesman Mark Hatfield was re-assigned/promoted/demoted to second-in-command of security at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to Ron Marisco of the Newark Star-Ledger. Loyal readers (whoever you are) might remember Hatfield for his flat-out lying about the TSA's role in its most recent privacy flare-up.

  Hatfield will be succeeded by Yolanda Clark, one of his former deputies.

Posted by Ryan Singel at August 19, 2005 12:10 PM

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