Someone needs to sue the TSA

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Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif boards international flight at Houston with a Glock accidentally stored in his computer bag. It's never discovered. So, what next?

"It's just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun," Seif told ABC News. "How can you miss it? You cannot miss it."


But the TSA did miss it, and despite what most people believe about the painstaking effort to screen airline passengers and their luggage before they enter the terminal, it was not that unusual...


According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles's LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago's O'Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/loaded...ry?id=12412458

[phobun]

Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif boards international flight at Houston with a Glock accidentally stored in his computer bag. It's never discovered. So, what next?



http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/loaded...ry?id=12412458

Even for a government agency, the TSA is so profoundly incompetent and so staffed entirely with losers and jerks, it boggles the mind.

[giovanni_hotel]

If you pay borderline minimum wage to TSA inspectors, you get what you pay for.

You want former baggage packers at the local grocery store to be the last line of defense for airline travel, that's all on TSA, not the poor stiffs collecting a check.

[onmyknees]

Nuff Said ??

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Washington Post -- Almost everything the TSA ever bought in the past was untested, didn't work, and ultimately had to be junked, says the GAO (Congress' highly-regarded Government Accountability Office auditors):

The Transportation Security Administration spent about $30 million on devices that puffed air on travelers to "sniff" them out for explosives residue. Those machines ended up in warehouses, removed from airports, abandoned as impractical.

The massive push to fix airport security in the United States after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led to a gold rush in technology contracts for an industry that mushroomed almost overnight. Since it was founded in 2001, the TSA has spent roughly $14 billion in more than 20,900 transactions with dozens of contractors...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122005599.html

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Washington Post -- Almost everything the TSA ever bought in the past was untested, didn't work, and ultimately had to be junked, says the GAO (Congress' highly-regarded Government Accountability Office auditors):



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122005599.html

Exactly. The TSA makes shit up as they go along. This is not about security, this is about money, power and toying with people. The new procedures are bullshit. Even if they were safety-nets, which they are not, what is to stop a terrorist from boarding a plane empty handed and using brawns and hands to take over the plane? Sure, sometimes crew and passengers would stop them but not always. Same with the possible crude weapons one could attain while in the terminal. And what about the attacks that could happen from outside the airport or at other buildings? Want to stop terrorism? Maybe join the rest of the world and monitor behavior at the airport and not treat everyone as a known terrorist. Legally investigate and stop terrorist plots before they reach the zero hour BUT the dipshits at the TSA, their employers and their goosestepping fans do not approve. Well, fuck that. Freedom from harassment, violation and persecution > Alleged safety