Jason Harrington

Jason Edward Harrington is an American writer, blogger, and former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee who has been highly critical of the agency since he left it in 2013. As of December 2015, he was studying for a MFA at the University of Mississippi.

Early years Harrington was born in Roselle, Illinois, to a German-American mother and African-American father.

Career Harrington began working for the TSA in 2007, as a screener at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, to help pay his way through school. During this time he became a frequent online contributor of humor and creative nonfiction to the San Francisco-based publishing company McSweeney's, as well as the humor website Cracked.com. In early 2012, while still working for the TSA, he started the blog "Taking Sense Away" on WordPress, with the aim of "tell[ing] the public the truth about what was going on at the agency." Several days later, the TSA canceled its contract with Rapiscan, the manufacturers of the full-body scanners. In May 2013, he quit working for the TSA. In a response to the article, the TSA claimed that in it, Harrington lied and/or described long-abandoned practices.