Shocking News

[Content Note: Racism, invasion of privacy]

On A17 of the New York Times there's this news that is definitely less important than the IRS hullabaloo:
The Transportation Security Administration has little evidence that an airport passenger screening program, which some employees believe is a magnet for racial profiling and has cost taxpayers nearly one billion dollars, screens passengers objectively, according to a report by the inspector general for the Homeland Security Department.
(And by "little", and "some employees believe", The Times actually means "no" and "definitely.")
In August, The Times reported that more than 30 officers at Logan International Airport in Boston had said that the program was being used to profile passengers like Hispanics traveling to Florida or blacks wearing baseball caps backward.
I never thought I'd say this, but maybe this country has a problem with racism.

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