This just in from an Air Marshal who wrote:

The following was sent on the TSA Blog at 4:05 PM Eastern Time. It was blocked and at 4:15 PM, [TSA Blogger] Chris White put his own blog post instead, with more of the typical propoganda. Please bring to the attention of the public that TSA is blocking comments they don't like, which is censorship. 

From a TSA Employee:

As a TSA employee, I am embarrassed at what I am reading on this blog [i.e. the TSA Blog]. This isn't a forum to exchange ideas as it was promoted to be, but has instead become nothing more than an outlet for TSA's propaganda machine. When a firearm goes on in a cockpit of a plane while it is on approach for landing, and TSA comes out publicly and claims, "The aircraft and the passengers were never in any danger," does TSA really believe the public is that stupid to believe such propaganda?

Does TSA really believe that they will have any credibility left after such comments?

And now we have this CNN story and one of TSA's biggest responses is that they know more than the air marshals and pilots who fly every day, so they shouldn't be believed. Are you serious? Hey, TSA, who do you think the public is going to believe? Who do you think the public believes has more credibility? Air Marshals and pilots who are risking their careers to tell this story, or the TSA Public Disinformation Officer whose job is nothing more than to protect the public image of the TSA, at any cost, even if it means lying to the public?

Let me give you an example of how the TSA is lying to the public.  This little trickery technique is well known throughout TSA. My agency claims that the attrition rate for the Federal Air Marshal Service is 6.5 % for years. Anyone who has studied Claims Theory and Fallacies knows this technique well.

The critical questions haven't been asked. Attrition rates of what?  TSA won't tell you that part. Attrition rate of blond blue-eyed males who have resigned? Let me tell you how TSA does this scam. When a Federal Air Marshal resigns from his or her job, and goes to work for another federal government agency, TSA doesn't count that as a loss because the employee is still working for the federal government.  So let's say for example 100% of all air marshals quit their jobs today and went to work as Border Patrol Agents tomorrow. 

The TSA would correctly report the attrition rate to be 0%, even though there were no more Federal Air Marshals employed by TSA.  What a great scam, isn't it? Most of the Federal Air Marshals that have resigned will of course find another federal job because they don't want to lose their retirement pensions. So in reality, this number reported by TSA of 6.5% actually represents those air marshals who resigned and went to non-federal government jobs. It doesn't represent those Federal Air Marshals who quit and obtained another job in another federal agency.

In addition, the TSA stated that this 6.5% attrition rate was for the "Federal Air Marshal Service", but they did not say it was the attrition rate for "Federal Air Marshals." Yes, this is second part of the scam.  This means that this 6.5% attrition rate will also take into account every employee who works for the Federal Air Marshal Service, including the janitors. See how the scam works?

Could there be more? Oh, yes indeed. There is even a third part to this scam. Notice TSA states that the attrition rate is "for years?"  Well, for how many years? Two Years? Four years? Six Years? The number of years that is calculated into the formula to come up with the percentage makes a huge difference in what the final number will be –– but TSA conveniently won't tell you that. See how important it is to read through the propaganda carefully? 

Remember folks, it's not what TSA is telling you that is important, it's what they are not telling you that you should be concerned about.

 

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