Reporters Covering Haiti Hassled -- in USA

Orlando Sentinel reports that two U.S. reporters just back from covering, at great peril and with distinction, the disaster in Haiti were hassled and "bullied" by the airport chief on landing in Orlando. One of them is friend Tina Susman, longtime L.A. Times reporter whose Iraq coverage I've hailed on numerous occasions. The other from the WSJ. -- Greg Mitchell Excerpt:

A Los Angeles Times reporter says Larry Dale, president of Orlando Sanford International Airport, "bullied" and threatened to handcuff her and a reporter for The Wall Street Journal as they passed through the airport on their way home from Haiti.

Tina Susman, who works for the Times, said she and Dionne Searcey of the Journal arrived at the airport Tuesday aboard a cargo plane with evacuees from Haiti, where they had been reporting on the aftermath of the earthquake.

Susman said a confrontation occurred after Dale and airport Vice President Diane Crews asked an airport police officer about the reporters, who were wearing media credentials around their necks. Susman said she and Searcey were chatting with a nun who had been teaching in Haiti while waiting to leave on a bus that was taking evacuees to Orlando International Airport.