Another anti-terrorism triumph

Castle Argghhh has the details on another brilliant coup by those staunch defenders of freedom, the TSA:

"The Transportation Security Administration bagged a terrorist in Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday, or so they thought. Daniel Brown's name came up on their no-fly watchlist, so they dragged him into interrogation and grilled him, despite the protestations of Brown and his fellow travelers, who swore they could vouch for him."

Yep. The bureaucrats of the TSA (and I'm a former government employee who still gets a check from the government, I'm inclined to offer the benefit of the doubt — but I've had better interactions with the IRS and VA than I have TSA . . .) kept us safe — by holding up (and, since he's on the no-fly list, by implication, saying he can *never* fly) Staff Sergeant Daniel Brown, USMCR. The flight they stopped him on?

His return home to Minnesota with his Reserve MP unit. From 8 months in Iraq.

Mind you — he had orders, ID card, and was traveling *with* his unit. The story doesn't say — but I'm betting he was in uniform, too.

But what I find most amusing is this:

So, how did Staff Sergeant Brown find himself on the list? On his previous flight *out* to Iraq, he was discovered to have gunpowder residue on his . . . wait for it . . . combat boots. You know, those things we wear to the range when qualifying before we . . . deploy. To a combat zone.