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Considering how much heed the administration pays to this web site (read: none) The Epic site doesn't explain this well, but the petition was actually on the W
by joshuahedlund 14y ago
Considering how much heed the administration pays to this web site (read: none)
The Epic site doesn't explain this well, but the petition was actually on the White House website, where the White House promises to respond, and has responded, to any petition that gets 25,000 signatures. This one probably just expired before meeting the requirements: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-transportation-security-administration-follow-law/tffCTwDd https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-transporta...
- kennywinker 14y agoAnd the amount of heed the administration pays to those petitions is still none. I've actually signed a previous TSA petition, and gotten a letter from the white house brushing it off (available here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/abolish-tsa-and-use-its-monstrous-budget-fund-more-sophisticated-less-intrusive-counter-terrorism/c7L94bFB https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/abolish-tsa-and-us...). Same with the legalization of marijuana petition I signed, and the support same-sex marriage one I signed (later they changed their position on this one), and the... I forget now which other ones I signed, but they have all gotten eventual responses from the white house that are basically polite brush-offs.
- jlarocco 14y agoMy understanding is that a lot of the "responses" to those petitions end up being, "We considered it. The answer is no." There's no requirement that they do anything. Given that, it seems unlikely there was some nefarious hidden agenda behind this TSA one being taken down.