ICE agents get paychecks. TSA officers get food banks. Same department. Same shutdown. Different bank accounts. Congress chose who eats and who doesn't.
I don’t know what kind of source you are asking for, I don’t have a quote of Bush admitting to conspiring with airline executives or anything. But it’s pretty clear why the security theater was created in the first place if you read between the lines of Studies like this.
It was security theater from day zero
It being used to bail out the airlines doesn’t preclude it from being security theater. The airlines going under was the reason the theater was needed in the first place.
only people who it made feel safer were the hyperxenophobic chuds who were yelling at anyone with vaguely brown skin in the weeks after 9/11
You mean 90% of American citizens?
Any attempt to whitewash the TSA is bullshit
I don’t see how Bush socializing the security cost for private corporations is being interpreted as white washing?
I don’t know what kind of source you are asking for, I don’t have a quote of Bush admitting to conspiring with airline executives or anything. But it’s pretty clear why the security theater was created in the first place if you read between the lines of Studies like this.
It being used to bail out the airlines doesn’t preclude it from being security theater. The airlines going under was the reason the theater was needed in the first place.
You mean 90% of American citizens?
I don’t see how Bush socializing the security cost for private corporations is being interpreted as white washing?