(ARS Technica) – US lawmakers and federal watchdogs on Tuesday derided the Transportation Security Administration’s ability, or lack thereof, to adequately detect weapons and other contraband during the passenger screening process at the nation’s airports.
This ought to make you feel all warm and fuzzy, especially if you’ve had the pleasure of getting the TSA rubber-glove grope at an airport recently.
In short, in classified tests, TSA line workers missed contraband almost every time, discovering it only one in twenty times on average. No wonder they classified the findings.
Yet, they still keep “randomly” searching old women and children for explosives and other contraband, while waving through military-age Muslim men. Because, after all, just because Mohammed is sweating bullets and acting nervous as a whore in church doesn’t mean he merits additional scrutiny. If he’s not the tenth person (or any highly attractive male or female to a gay TSA screener), it would be PROFILING to single Mohammed out.
Does this mean they are going to stuff their hands inside your pants now to make sure you don’t have a little extra something in your shorts?
TSA airport screeners’ ability to detect weapons declared “pitiful”
“In looking at the number of times people got through with guns or bombs in these covert testing exercises it really was pathetic. When I say that I mean pitiful,” said Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), speaking Tuesday during a House Oversight hearing concerning classified reports from federal watchdogs. “Just thinking about the breaches there, it’s horrific,” he added.
Auditors from the Inspector General’s Office, posing as travelers, discovered enormous loopholes in the TSA’s screening process. A leaked classified report this summer found that as much as 95 percent of contraband, like weapons and explosives, got through during clandestine testings. Lynch’s comments were in response to the classified report’s findings.
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