{"id":9225,"date":"2016-03-21T08:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T12:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2016-03-21T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:05:07","slug":"tsa-videos-foia-response-portland-thanksgiving-poking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/tsa-videos-foia-response-portland-thanksgiving-poking\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Videos FOIA Response &#8211; Portland Thanksgiving Poking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some video and photographic material to accompany today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/03\/21\/tsa-full-body-scanners-patdowns-gitmo-fourth-amendment-privacy-column\/81779330\/\">USA Today article on my TSA encounter <\/a>in Portland on Thanksgiving morning. The films were provided in response to my Freedom of Information Act request in December.\u00a0 The response included a bevy of internal TSA emails.\u00a0 I was surprised that the TSA Office of Chief Counsel was quickly involved in the response with email subject headings &#8220;Tort Claim.&#8221;\u00a0 Hmmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The FOIA response included\u00a0statements (written after I filed my FOIA request in at least 2 cases) from each of the 3 TSA agents who took me behind closed doors.\u00a0 TSA is proud of its Behavior Detection Officers &#8211; but the BDO statement made me burst out laughing. He wrote: &#8220;I asked the passenger what brought him to Portland and passenger informed me he was an activist\/blogger and he attend [sic] a conference here talking about the government and its security.&#8221; I clearly stated that I was a journalist but did not mention any affiliations or who I wrote for.\u00a0 I said I was in Portland to speak at a conference about liberty (the annual<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomseminars.org\/\"> Freedom Seminar<\/a>) &#8211; not about &#8220;the government and its security.&#8221; Maybe he confused\u00a0that response with my scoffing at their\u00a0&#8220;security theater.&#8221; \u00a0Not sure if that BDO was actually that clueless or if there may be some other motive for them seeking to attach the &#8220;activist\/blogger&#8221; label.\u00a0 TSA agents searched my carry-on shoulder bag several times but never noticed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.senate.gov\/\">U.S. Senate Press Gallery <\/a>pass and metal necklace &#8211; even though it was not hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt of the first patdown. I&#8217;m the guy with the bulky off-white shirt in the left side of the film. The second patdown &#8211; behind closed doors &#8211; was far more aggressive and intrusive.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9225-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-First-Patdown-Excerpt.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-First-Patdown-Excerpt.mp4\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-First-Patdown-Excerpt.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Marched into the Private Security Room by three TSA agents<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9225-2\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Marched-into-Private-Screening-Room.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Marched-into-Private-Screening-Room.mp4\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Marched-into-Private-Screening-Room.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Taking a couple quick photos and notes immediately upon being released from Private Security Room<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9225-3\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Taking-Notes-Afterwards-Shorter-version.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Taking-Notes-Afterwards-Shorter-version.mp4\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Taking-Notes-Afterwards-Shorter-version.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Swinging back to photograph the Private Security Room again &#8211; durn Nikon D-40 flash was misfiring at times.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9225-4\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Photographing-Priv-Security-Room-better-angle.mp4?_=4\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Photographing-Priv-Security-Room-better-angle.mp4\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Photographing-Priv-Security-Room-better-angle.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet of me ambling to my departure gate after the search<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9225-5\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Ambling-to-Departure-Gate-SHORTER.mp4?_=5\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Ambling-to-Departure-Gate-SHORTER.mp4\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-Ambling-to-Departure-Gate-SHORTER.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Here is my timeline in Portland airport, according to surveillance video.\u00a0(PAX is their abbreviation for passenger.)\u00a0The videos I received had other gaps aside from the 7 minutes behind closed doors. As I was snapping pictures, I was accosted by a TSA agent who\u00a0told me that I was not allowed to photograph the Private Security Room. I told him that I had just been searched and interrogated there and that it was my right to photograph it. He groused and walked off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-PDX-timeline-from-TSA-CCTV-FOIA_edited-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9234\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-PDX-timeline-from-TSA-CCTV-FOIA_edited-1-538x800.jpg\" alt=\"JPB PDX timeline from TSA CCTV FOIA_edited-1\" width=\"538\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-PDX-timeline-from-TSA-CCTV-FOIA_edited-1-538x800.jpg 538w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-PDX-timeline-from-TSA-CCTV-FOIA_edited-1-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPB-PDX-timeline-from-TSA-CCTV-FOIA_edited-1.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of the Private Security Room I took after the search that morning:<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TSA-Portland-Interrogation-Room-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9006\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TSA-Portland-Interrogation-Room-2.jpg\" alt=\"TSA-Portland-Interrogation-Room-#2\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TSA-Portland-Interrogation-Room-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TSA-Portland-Interrogation-Room-2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an outtake from the video &#8211; me explaining to the TSA luminary that his Explosive Trace Detector positive alert was a load of crap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/edited-JPB-by-Explosive-Trace-Detector-Explaining-Why-Results-are-BS-Snapshot-11-3-13-2016-12-33-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9238\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/edited-JPB-by-Explosive-Trace-Detector-Explaining-Why-Results-are-BS-Snapshot-11-3-13-2016-12-33-PM.png\" alt=\"edited JPB by Explosive Trace Detector Explaining Why Results are BS Snapshot 11 (3-13-2016 12-33 PM)\" width=\"408\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/edited-JPB-by-Explosive-Trace-Detector-Explaining-Why-Results-are-BS-Snapshot-11-3-13-2016-12-33-PM.png 408w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/edited-JPB-by-Explosive-Trace-Detector-Explaining-Why-Results-are-BS-Snapshot-11-3-13-2016-12-33-PM-150x114.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some photos someone compiled and posted of the TSA patdown of a ten-year-old girl at the Raleigh-Durham airport last December. She triggered a false explosive detection advice &#8211; the same sin I committed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/san-diego-TSA-patdown-of-girl.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9236\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/san-diego-TSA-patdown-of-girl.jpg\" alt=\"san diego TSA-patdown-of-girl\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an outtake photo from the final TSA video<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Photoshop-2-jpb-walking-Snapshot-3-3-14-2016-10-49-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9240\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9240\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Photoshop-2-jpb-walking-Snapshot-3-3-14-2016-10-49-PM.png\" alt=\"Photoshop #2 jpb walking Snapshot 3 (3-14-2016 10-49 PM)\" width=\"510\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Photoshop-2-jpb-walking-Snapshot-3-3-14-2016-10-49-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Photoshop-2-jpb-walking-Snapshot-3-3-14-2016-10-49-PM-150x140.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s\u00a0my favorite souvenir from PDX &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tsa-portland-greeting-card2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9010\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tsa-portland-greeting-card2.jpg\" alt=\"tsa-portland-greeting-card2\" width=\"375\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tsa-portland-greeting-card2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tsa-portland-greeting-card2-133x150.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some video and photographic material to accompany today&#8217;s USA Today article on my TSA encounter in Portland on Thanksgiving morning. The films were provided in response to my Freedom of Information Act request in December.\u00a0 The response included a bevy of internal TSA emails.\u00a0 I was surprised that the TSA Office of Chief Counsel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[814,815,771,813,117,30,76],"class_list":["post-9225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boneheads","tag-foia","tag-fourth-amendment","tag-guantanamo","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance","tag-tsa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TSA Videos FOIA Response - Portland Thanksgiving Poking - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/tsa-videos-foia-response-portland-thanksgiving-poking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TSA Videos FOIA Response - Portland Thanksgiving Poking - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s some video and photographic material to accompany today&#8217;s USA Today article on my TSA encounter in Portland on Thanksgiving morning. 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