College Student Detained by TSA for Arabic Flashcards Goes to Court
The American Civil Liberties Union will argue tomorrow in federal appeals court on behalf of Nick George, a college student who was interrogated, handcuffed and detained for nearly five hours at the Philadelphia International Airport in 2009 because he was carrying a set of English-Arabic language flashcards for his college studies.
Source: ACLU. Read full article. (link)
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TSA's budget is going to have to go up I guess if we expect them to start hiring more college graduates.