10,000 TSA Staff to get Secret Intelligence

Another treasonous Obama initiative. I wonder if CAIR, MSA, ISNA, ICNA, are on the distribute list as well. Who is vetting these 10,000 clowns?

How many of the unionized  TSA people are unionized ..... by SEIU ? And the "Behavior Detection Officers"? Sworn L.E.O.'s......union members.

How many of the TSA people getting the classification are being screened for their loyalty to protect and defend the American people -- or is this all happening in line with the administration's agenda of anti-American rule?

10,000 TSA staff to get secret intel USA Today hat tip Kenny S

About 10,000 airport security workers will get access to secret intelligence that could help stop terrorist attacks on planes.

The Transportation Security Administration plan aims to help its officers spot terrorists by giving them more detailed information about tactics and threats, TSA officials and security experts said. The agency, viewed by some as throngs of workers pawing through luggage at checkpoints, hopes to empower its higher-level workers as part of an effort to professionalize airport security.

The 10,000 people in line to get classified information are managers, supervisors and "behavior detection officers" who roam airports looking for suspicious people. They represent about 20% of the TSA's airport workforce and exclude screeners who scan passengers and bags.

The information could include copies of terrorist training videos or tips vaguely describing a terrorism suspect, experts said. "Some classified information seems innocuous but is classified because it was derived from an intercepted phone conversation," said Steven Aftergood, an intelligence-policy specialist for the Federation of American Scientists.

"This could enable broader sharing of some kinds of sensitive information," Aftergood said.

TSA workers are getting "Secret" clearance — which ranks above Confidential but below Top Secret.

About 2.5 million Americans have security clearances, many of them in the military or working for defense contractors, and some working for the Homeland Security Department, Aftergood said.

Do you wonder why this happened ? I don't. I know why it happened.

Think it came out of nowhere ? It didn't. It came from the top.

Read on.........

The Classified Document Executive Order Buffet, hosted by Barack Hussein Obama, Jihadist-In-Chief. Kenny adds, There's no way he wrote these exec. orders - not possible. Exec. orders are supposed to be short, simple, direct and to the point - and written by POTUS. The first document is legislation-sized and worded.

Declassification doc:

Executive Order - Original Classification Authority

Pursuant to the provisions of section 1.3 of the Executive Order issued today, entitled "Classified National Security Information" (Executive Order), I hereby designate the following officials to classify information originally as "Top Secret" or "Secret":

    TOP SECRET

Executive Office of the President:

The Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor)

The Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

The Director of National Drug Control Policy

The Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy

The Chair or Co-Chairs, President's Intelligence Advisory Board

Departments and Agencies:

The Secretary of State

The Secretary of the Treasury

The Secretary of Defense

The Attorney General

The Secretary of Energy

The Secretary of Homeland Security

The Director of National Intelligence

The Secretary of the Army

The Secretary of the Navy

The Secretary of the Air Force

The Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The Director, Information Security Oversight Office

    SECRET

Executive Office of the President:

The United States Trade Representative

Departments and Agencies:

The Secretary of Agriculture

The Secretary of Commerce

The Secretary of Health and Human Services

The Secretary of Transportation

The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Any delegation of this authority shall be in accordance with section 1.3(c) of the Executive Order, except that the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not delegate the authority granted in this order.  If an agency head without original classification authority under this order, or otherwise delegated in accordance with section 1.3(c) of the Executive Order, has an exceptional need to classify information originated by their agency, the matter shall be referred to the agency head with appropriate subject matter interest and classification authority in accordance with section 1.3(e) of the Executive Order.  If the agency with appropriate subject
matter interest and classification authority cannot readily be determined, the matter shall be referred to the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office.

Presidential designations ordered prior to the issuance of the Executive Order are revoked as of the date of this order.  However, delegations of authority to classify information originally that were made in accordance with the provisions of section 1.4 of Executive Order 12958 of April 17, 1995, as amended, by officials designated under this order shall continue in effect, provided that the authority of such officials is delegable under this order.

This order shall be published in the Federal Register.

                        BARACK OBAMA

Comments

[Cate]

Hmmm...I wonder how many of these people have credit issues, and I wonder if the normal requirement to get security clearance will be waived under this Executive Order for those with credit issues. If so, that is not a good sign at all.

[marlene]

Well, whaddya know. A gift of National Security "Secrets" to a hodgepodge of UNVETTED TSA workers. Did anybody determine, as Ms. Geller asks, their LOYALTY to the USA? Did anybody determine whether they were blackmail-proof, bribe-proof, threat-proof? And like CATE above asks, will they undergo NORMAL security clearance? No, you say? Well, whaddya know? (And you better tell us, said Ahmad, Mohammad, Tariq, et al. or else!). How long before the rest of us legal, American citizens learn of these secrets? Not too long - maybe during the discovery process of some "civil" case. Well, whaddya know...

[Mamba1-0]

What do the secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, HHS, or the administrator of AID or the EPA have to do with classifying information "vital to national security"? What are they doing or handling that could be considered top secret?
This is more smoke and mirrors, with no purpose other than to hide the unConstitutional actions of the obama cabal from the American people.

[DJM]

So I guess THIS TSA officer will get those secret how-to-spot-a-terrorist intelligence?

Obama is aiding his muslim brethren like a good muslim should.

[NextVoiceUHear]

How many of the 25 or so entire government offices and agencies listed above have employees, contractors, etc. that are muslims or have muslim sympathies? Way to go Ubamuh - more treats for your moon-god masters. Did you want virgins with that?

NVUH

[Ed Rasimus]

I don't read this as earthshaking. It doesn't say that 10,000 TSA people who don't have a security clearance are going to get classified info. It classifies a level of staff above the baggage apes and gropers. These folks probably already have a National Agency Check as part of their employment vetting. A security clearance to access Secret is not that rare. It also doesn't indicate the classification level of the material. If Confidential or Secret, you aren't dealing with very high level stuff and if "need to know" criteria are applied, you can certainly justify screeners for terrorists having a need to know about the terrorists they are screening for.

The list of original classification authority is simply filler here. Originators of material are delegated classification authority for materials they create, so listing DOD for example means military people can label materials as classified to the level that they have access to themselves. It is a broad ranging authority.

There's no smoking gun here and jumping to conclusions about "unvetted TSA" or SEIU members or uncleared personnel is a stretch.

[ender]

tie this to the story of the airport forced to give a convicted felon a all areas security pass and you can see where this is going.

http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/2010/02/05/tsa-hires-felon-forces-airport-to-issue-security-badge/

Richmond International Airport (RIC) like many airports controls the security badges issued to those with access to secure areas of their airport. Like most airports, RIC will not issue a secure area badge to those convicted of a felony or convicted of ‘disqualifying crimes’ … unless of course they are forced to issue a security badge by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) & Transportation Security Administration.

http://www.gadling.com/2010/02/04/tsa-forces-richmond-airport-to-issue-access-badge-to-convicted-f/

so how many of these tsa workers are criminals already?

why even bother with secruity at this point.