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News Ticker WidgetMonday, 01 June 2015
The illusion of security: Investigators are 95% successful at smuggling weapons past TSA
The TSA is great at hassling little old ladies and 3 year olds. What they're not great at is actually stopping people from smuggling weapons onto planes.
In fact, they really, really, really suck at doing that.
An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation's busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News learned exclusively.
The series of tests were conducted by Homeland Security Red Teams who pose as passengers, setting out to beat the system.
According to officials briefed on the results of a recent Homeland Security Inspector General's report, TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints.
In one test an undercover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm at a magnetometer, but TSA screeners failed to detect a fake explosive device that was taped to his back during a follow-on pat down.
Disgraceful.
So what did Obama's crackerjack Homeland Security Department do? They held a meeting. Where they were frustrated.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was apparently so frustrated by the findings he sought a detailed briefing on them last week at TSA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, according to sources.
So, did anyone get fired?
Of course not. They're going to "improve their procedures" instead.
Which, as I'm sure you're aware, is TSA-speak for "make our lives even more miserable." But as for stopping terrorists? Don't make me laugh.
Yes the TSA is a joke. But the joke's on us.
Posted at 11:46 by Chris Wysocki
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