Arrested TSA Employee WWLP: 4th TSA agent [Jonathan Best] admits to charges in painkiller trafficking ring

This TV station really needs to pay attention to the quality & accuracy of their reporting. Only three (not four) TSA agents were arrested in this operation, and TSA agents are NOT law enforcement officers.

WWLP: 4th TSA agent admits to charges in painkiller trafficking ring

 

I try to post as many "TSA screeners are NOT 'agents' and NOT 'officers'" comments as I can but the reporters don't seem to get the hint. I'll grant that "agent" comes somewhat naturally when following a three-letter-acronym agency name, but calling smurf-clerks "officers" is just playing right into TSA's hand with its word games.

 

Yet another media outlet confusing pigs & perverts cops & screeners ...

Hawaii News Daily: This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories

 

With the current state of "professional" journalism is it any surprise the lame stream and dead tree media are on their last legs?

 

Jonathan “J.B.” Best gets 76 months in federal lockup & three years supervised release ...

Stamford Daily Voice: TSA Officer Sentenced In Connecticut Drug Ring

Hartford Courant: Second Airport Screener Sentenced In Drug Case

 

Looking at it from a glass-is-half-full angle, every time there is a report that a TSA "officer" or "agent" is arrested, it dulls the shine on the fake tin badge and the authority they try to convey.