{"id":3750,"date":"2010-02-13T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2010-02-13T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T02:22:08","slug":"the-wrong-kind-of-government-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3750\/the-wrong-kind-of-government-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Kind of Government Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/federal-eye\/2010\/01\/tsa_nominee_erroll_southers_wi.html \" target=\"_blank\">Erroll Southers<\/a>?\u00a0 He was President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee to be the chief of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), the agency in charge of security at all the nation\u2019s airports.\u00a0 If approved, he would have been the point man for installing full body scan machines for every passenger to walk through.\u00a0 Yet, he withdrew his nomination last month after it surfaced that twenty years ago as an FBI agent he illegally accessed information about his ex-wife\u2019s boyfriend.\u00a0 By all accounts he was a model security professional before and after the incident, but introduce a personal motive, and even the best people may play a dangerous game with our privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Britain provides a case study. \u00a0Recently, an Indian film star discovered the failures of a government-run failsafe system.\u00a0 Immediately after participating in a mandatory full body scan at London\u2019s Heathrow airport, Shahrukh Khan saw two female security workers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/exposed-naked-body-scanner-images-of-film-star-printed-circulated.html \" target=\"_blank\">printing out a picture<\/a> with detailed outlines of his manhood on display.\u00a0 The event gave the lie to assurances by the British government that no scanned information would be saved or printed.\u00a0 Though irritated, he made light of the matter and autographed the paper.\u00a0 The rest of us should take note.<\/p>\n<p>It is darkly ironic that at a time when most Americans are disgusted with the lack of transparency from their government, their government is lusting after more transparency from its people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Erroll Southers?\u00a0 He was President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee to be the chief of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), the agency in charge of security at all the nation\u2019s airports.\u00a0 If approved, he would have been the point man for installing full body scan machines for every passenger to walk through.\u00a0 Yet, he withdrew his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[827,684,801,826,853],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-body-scanner","tag-erroll-southers","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-shah-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}