The public just found out about a top secret listing maintained by TSA, perhaps more secret and subjective than the classified advertisement listing maintained by the FBI Transportation security Administration is making a list of passengers? they consider jerks. Is a list too far?

According to a United States of America Today story, the government government agency has been maintaining this list for three geezerhood

Am I irritated by this discover or surprised? Irritated, yes, and surprised, no. I look at the list as a testament to how well-behaved the American flying public is while being subjected to the electric current version of security theater and being searched.

After three years of clandestinely assembling names of jerk? in the air, Transportation Security Administration has a total number of 240 name calling So, with about 800 million passenger moving through U.S. airports each year, having only 240 TSA-certified jerk is amazing. I think that come out to .0000003 percent.

Now, or course, there is the question about what the heck is Transportation Security Administration doing collecting this kind of minimal information? And from seclusion exponent it raise serious questions, like what other variety of secret database are being kept of air hose passengers?

According to TSA, this is only a form of ego defense

The database was created in late 2007 as the Transportation Security Administration launched a program to prevent the nation’s 50,000 drome screener from being attacked or threatened, government agency spokeswoman Kristin Shelton Jackson Lee said. At the time, Transportation Security Administration functionary voiced concern about passenger disrespecting screeners, and they began issuing new uniforms with police-style badge pinned to shirts.

However, of the 240 incident that have been collected on this no-jerk list, “only 30 incident involve people such as passenger or drome worker attacking or threatening screeners.”

What, you might ask, is the Transportation Security Administration definition of a jerk? According a Transportation Security Administration written report the following ground for recording names, names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, home addresses and telephone Book of Numbers of people.

Incidents in the database include threats, intimidation or verbal abuse, remark about death or violence, brandishing a real or fake weapon, intentionally scaring worker or excessive show of ire such as punching a wall or kicking equipment, the report says.

But nothing is carved in rock when it come to this database and who might find themselves listed. I’m ordinal number even sure why it is maintained. It is strange that Transportation Security Administration doesn’t maintain any kind of list of what passenger have repetition secondary screenings, but would keep a list of passenger that irritate them.

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