In the latest apparent case of what have been hundreds of thefts by TSA officers of passenger belongings, an iPad left behind at a security checkpoint in the Orlando airport was tracked as it moved 30 miles to the home of the TSA officer last seen handling it.

Confronted two weeks later by ABC News, the TSA officer, Andy Ramirez, at first denied having the missing iPad, but ultimately turned it over after blaming his wife for taking it from the airport.

The iPad was one of ten purposely left behind at TSA checkpoints at major airports with a history of theft by government screeners, as part of an ABC News investigation into the TSA's ongoing problem with theft from passengers.

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A series of new economic figures this morning cast fresh gloom on the health of the U.S. economy.

The economy grew much less than expected in the second quarter, new Labor Department estimates show. Second quarter GDP was revised lower to 1.3% from an earlier 1.7%. (Economists believed that GDP would be revised lower to 1.6%.) Declining consumer spending and business investment combined to weigh mightily on economic activity.

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Has the media forgotten ENRON? AIG? How about the recent SATYAM scandal? I rolled my eyes when I learned that Romney's accounting firm is Price Waterhouse.

Price Waterhouse was in thick with Enron, playing with Other People's Money

Enron bosses reaped £6.2m from four-day Centrica sell-off

Enron Direct was sold by Price Waterhouse Coopers to the utility group Centrica last December for £96.4m. To speed up the process, PWC was prepared to offer each manager £440,000 as an incentive to work the long hours involved in the tendering process.

Mitt and Enron have something else in common:

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