The TSA's August 31, 2006 retroactive "Final Order order on Sensitive Security Information"


This was the order TSA lawyer and former Director of the Sensitive Security Information Office, Andrew Colsky, issued four months after it fired Robert MacLean and three years after TSA choose to send the undesignated and unsecured July 2003 text message to all Federal Air Marshals's unsecured Nokia 3310 cellular phones instead of their $22 million encrypted Datamaxx Group Palm Tungsten W cellular smartphone system. This order back-dated MacLean's disclosure as UN-classified TSA "Sensitive Security Information" (SSI). TSA is arguing to the U.S. Supreme Court that violating its SSI regulations is equal to breaking the law enacted by Congress. Mr. Colsky just blew the whistle to Congress. Mr. Colsky's shocking testimony appears in a May 29, 2014 full BIPARTISAN U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight & Government Reform report about the TSA abusing its authority with SSI markings. Mr. Colsky testified that SSI markings were used to hide "embarrassing information" and "extreme pressure" was exerted on him and his SSI experts to mark information "that was not by any stretch of the imagination at all SSI."