And your personal income... (Crumpet update!

... has exactly WHAT to do with national security ?

Unfortunately, I can't get onto facebook due to the work firewall, so I'll have to do some exploring to see what's going on here...

For those of you who don't know, Michael was out doing independent reporting in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other hot-spots.

I do agree that the TSA _can_ (and should) detain individuals for being non-cooperative (as reported at Big Government website being the TSA's claim.), but why should TSA be asking about an individual's personal income?   Methinks some govt. puke is overstepping his bounds.. and someone's head needs to roll over this one.

New Crumpet:   (7:25 PM CST):   Per the Seattle Weekly

"In any situation there's two sides to the story," says CBP spokesman Mike Milne. "You've heard one side, and we're prohibited by the Privacy Act from telling our side."

In Tea-Speak, "We screwed up but we're playing COA (instead of CYA), and we'll use anyway to protect ourselves from further embarassment".