Okay, I don’t know what kind of footwear was involved, it just sounded like a catchy headline.

Blog about something the Department of Homeland Security, (DHS), doesn’t like and you may get a visit from some of Obama’s brown shirts.

Chris Elliott and Steve Frischling both published on their blogs a newly issued security directive from the Transportation Security Administration, (TSA), which has oversight of DHS.

In separate visits, the DHS employees told Chris Elliott and Steve Frischling that their computers and all e-mail correspondence related to the leak of the security directive were being subpoenaed as part of an investigation into who leaked the document to them, which both journalists published on their Web sites.

The new directive was so ridiculous that TSA changed it almost immediately

The TSA backtracked almost immediately on the restrictions — which had ordered airlines, among other things, not to permit passengers to go to the bathroom an hour before arrival on all international flights and to prevent them from holding pillows, blankets and personal possessions on their laps. A TSA spokesman said that the added security precautions were discretionary.

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Elliott said in an interview that he had declined to tell Flaherty the identity of his source or turn over his computer. He said he has referred further inquiries about his stance to Mark Holsher, an attorney, who did not return calls for comment.

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Frischling, who runs a travel Web site called “Flying with Fish” and published the directive minutes after Elliott, said in an interview today that he had given his computer to the two federal agents who came to his house on Tuesday night. Frischling said he complied with their request after they asserted that he was “not a journalist” and handed him a subpoena, telling him he had now been “served.” They also said they would return the next morning to confiscate his computer and other communications equipment if he failed to cooperate.

Nope, you’re a dumbass lowly blogger. Never mind the fact that Obama has liberal bloggers at the white house, and has even invited them to white house press briefings.

Frischling said his computer was returned this morning with several corrupted sectors and that he was running software to repair it. He said he had given the agents his computer because the directive had been sent to him anonymously, that he had deleted the original e-mails, and that it had been sent to him by someone who had undoubtedly used a phony e-mail name and address.

They most likely ruined the sectors intentionally after recovering the deleted emails.

Gee, I never get big anonymous tips like that.

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