TSA Blogger Brings Message to Defense

A prolific -- and popular -- blogger at the Transportation Security Administration is also now spreading his insight to the Defense community. Bob Burns, a.k.a. Blogger Bob, wrote his first post for the Armed With Science Blog, which appears on the DoD Live website.

Blogger Bob launched his gig as a periodic contributor to the Tech Tuesday posts on the science blog. His first effort covered the technologies TSA uses to fight terrorism.

Blogger Bob is building off his work on the TSA Blog, which routinely receives dozens of comments from the public on its posts -- many of which can be quite testy. When Blogger Bob announced he would be contributing to Armed With Science, for example, he received both congratulations and sarcastic comments:

Bob, I'm sure you can you see the irony here. You work for an organization that has, for over a month, completely ignored an extensive analysis in the top scientific journal Nature stating that there is no Science behind the SPOT program. You work for an organization that believes that the liquid state of matter dangerous if not contained by ziplock baggies. You work for an organization that obsesses over every single object passengers carry, but does nothing about all other people who have contact with airplanes.

There is absolutely no Science in what the TSA does.

and

If TSA is, as you allege in this blog post, "armed with science," why have you refused to acknowledge or respond to Nature's evisceration of your "BDO" program as complete nonsense?

To TSA's credit, their blog has consistently posted these rants on its posts. Wonder if the DoD Live site will follow the same policy.