Report: TSA Special Agent who threatened blogger spaces out, drops notebook in public place

(Click for large). Oh, those TSA agents are special alright. Mary Kirby, aka Runway Girl, reports that one of the federal agents who showed up at travel writer Steven Frischling‘s house to issue a subpoena and search his computer for the source of the agency’s leaked security directive flaked out and left his notebook lying in a public place.

Yes, a notebook with notes on the very important Department of Homeland Security investigation they were conducting. No TSA response on this one yet. Kirby blogs the photo above, and asks:

Would you define such a misstep as complete ineptitude? Would you wonder how the agency protects the information it gleans from other – more important – investigations (you know, ones involving threats against our nation)?

Such tough questions! These were the same agents who (according to the Wired report) showed up armed at Frischling’s home, told him “I don’t think you know how much trouble you’re in,” said they had to run to Wal-Mart to buy a hard drive to burn his MacBook contents to, came back and couldn’t figure out how to get that to work, then seized his hard drive and took off, returning it later in malfunctioning order after they’d copied what they wanted.

Wonder what else was in the little notebook (“created with pride by Americans who are blind.”) Presumably, some directly identifying information which is not shown in the photos Kirby chose to publish.

Exclusive: TSA agent’s notebook discovered in public place (flightglobal)