(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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Let hire some of our returning veterans and get someone on the job that really cares about keeping our country’s people safe, they have proved time and time again they can get it done.
NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!
ELIMINATE this useless agency……………or………..
better yet…………
When TRUMP becomes president, rewrite their P.D.’s (position descriptions). Every TSA employee is now relocated to the southern border to erect fence and/or man it.
Every TSA employee unable to do those jobs is redirected to REMOVING illegal aliens by bus, railcar, pedalbike or any means necessary.
And they don’t think we can evict eleven million illegal aliens!!!
We’ll show ya!
With Obamama wanting to do away with the “box” about everyone’s criminal past about a employee, all those molesters could work for the TSA as screeners trying to find the prize wrapped inside.
Security theater is right.
I ran into the same thing at the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Do they think someone is gonna hijack th damn thing? Or “fly” it into the Sears Tower?
I pretty much refuse to fly anymore.
I’d probably end up in jail if some asshole groped my like that, if my wife didn’t get to him first.
Sam
Here is an idea, instead of complaining or passing judgement on the ones that do join the Tsa, why don’t you step up and add your “talents” to their team. It’s easy to judge from the outside when you’re on your couch. Some of the people that join the tsa are former military! Are you against them too!?!