Saturday, March 17, 2012

Bob Barr's Liberty Guard sues TSA

A group led by long-time Transportation Security Administration critic former Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) is suing the TSA for allegedly violating the Freedom of Information Act.

Barr's Liberty Guard group alleges that the TSA refused to comply with FOIA requests from the organization in November 2010, when the group was encouraging airline passengers to opt out of body scanners used by TSA .

Critics have contend that the TSA scanners invade passengers privacy, and Barr said the lawsuit from Liberty Guard, which considers itself nonpartisan, would be good for all Americans.

"This lawsuit will help empower all those who travel by commercial air carrier, to be protected against arbitrary and privacy-invasive techniques employed by the federal government that are of questionable constitutional validity," Barr, who served in Congress from 1995 to 2003, said in a news release.

More @ The Hill

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