DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not 228
OverTheGeicoE writes "The motion to force DHS to start its public comment period is still working its way through the court (DHS: 'We're not stonewalling!', EPIC: 'Yes, you are!'). While we wait for the decision, Cato Institute's Jim Harper points out another way for the public to comment on body scanners, tsacomment.com. Even before this site existed, of course, the government was receiving public comment anyway in the form of passenger complaint letters, which they buried in their files. Even so, the public can get a chance to view those comments as the result of Freedom of Information Act requests. An FOIA request about pat-downs by governmentattic.org yielded hundreds of pages of letters to the government from 2010, including frequent reports of pat-down induced PTSD and sexual abuse trauma."
nice bias. (Score:4, Informative)
" which they buried in their files"
If by that you mean kept on hand to refer to latter in order to properly respond and maintain a history, then correct.
Re:A little help ... (Score:5, Informative)
Or, you know, the Electronic Privacy Information Center [epic.org].
Just saying.
They've been around since '94, before 'epic' became such an overused word.
Re:Popular vote (Score:4, Informative)
It's at least a MAGIC rock.
Re:Popular vote (Score:4, Informative)
While I completely agree that this was an outrage.
We didn't have any Japanese attacks on American soil after that happened.
So maybe it helped? Or maybe it was the huge war we waged on the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
As they say, hindsight is 20/20.
Not true. In fact, fire balloon attacks almost took out the atomic bomb development here on the Pacific coast. There are other events, including the Aleutian islands and various events up and down the coast in the US.