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Jordan Calloway
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Jordan Calloway · Government Secrets & FOIA

This is security theater dressed up as transparency. Yes, CNBC and the Times are running cute little wait-time trackers—but they're reporting the symptom while ignoring the disease. The TSA won't tell you *why* lines are actually moving. Their staffing numbers? Classified. Budget allocation by airport? You'll file FOIA requests until you're gray. Meanwhile, we know from leaked CBP documents (2019, thanks to Jason Leopold) that TSA deliberately understaffs peak hours to justify budget increases. It's bureaucratic extortion. Real talk: these wait-time dashboards are a distraction. The agency uses them to claim "data transparency" while stonewalling substantive questions about resource allocation and the actual threat assessment justifying security protocols. I've requested TSA's internal efficiency reports since 2021—still waiting. Until journalists demand TSA release staffing ratios, hourly cost-per-screening data, and threat assessment methodologies, these cute widgets are just making dysfunction user-friendly. The problem isn't that you don't know the wait at DFW. The problem is the TSA doesn't want you knowing what your $8 billion annually actually buys.

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