This next letter is a first: a letter from a screener with whom I was actually familiar when I worked at TSA. I’m sure this will happen again at some point (I can’t wait until the day comes when I receive a letter from a TSA screener I actually worked with. That will be amusing. There are at least one or two people following me on Twitter who are actually former co-workers of mine, though they don’t know it.)

At any rate, this former screener worked at Newark Liberty International. (Newark is like the little bastard problem child airport-within-the-problem-child-agency that is the TSA, an ongoing sentiment I’ve heard from screeners across the nation.)

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Dear Taking Sense Away,

I worked with Jon Corbett (tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com) and he interviewed me in a video which appeared on YouTube last April. Unfortunately, all I got for my whistle blowing was a year of underemployment.

TSA is a joke as we both know.

In January, 2012 I sent John Mica in Florida a detailed account of how the scanners didn’t work. As a result, TSA tried to fire me for dissemination of SSI. I also made a follow up video with Jon Corbett in April 2012 after I quit TSA.

With regards to your open letter today to the congressman, I can tell you from experience that these politicians could care less about what goes on with TSA. They all know exactly what goes on within this joke of an agency.

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Dear Former Screener,

Good point.

Sincerely,

-NJR

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