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About that unpleasantness with the Department of Homeland Security. Many of you have asked how you can get help. I will almost certainly face some legal bills as a result of the incident (details in a moment). You can get more information about supporting this site and newsletter here. Thank you very much.
In this issue. Happy New Year! Plus, blogs to bookmark in 2010, and more on the unpleasantness with the Department of Homeland Security.
New posts
• To the team of friends, allies and advisers who helped make the subpoena go away
• Department of Homeland Security: Your subpoena “is no longer necessary”
• Happy New Year — from all of us
• 10 travel blogs you should bookmark in 2010
• Full text of my subpoena from the Department of Homeland Security
• TSA’s “layered” approach to security and what it means to you
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