
Episode 476 • • 11:17 - 16:08
476: Middle Class Infanteers
Electronic Device Bans, State Department Bureaucracy, Janet Napolitano
Mickey Curry was forced to leave a security line at the U.S. Embassy after arriving with a mobile phone, violating strict electronic device policies. The hosts attribute the increasingly rigid and "hostile" nature of embassy security to Department of Homeland Security policies under Janet Napolitano. An anecdote about a former ambassador suggests that even high-level connections cannot bypass current security rigmarole.
