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| The TSA's lax performance amounts to security theater |
| 2018-01-02 |
| [The Hill] The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), charged with ensuring the safety of travelers at airports and certain other commercial transport facilities, is failing in many ways. While it may appear the agency is doing its job, evidence to the contrary abounds. In a 2016 survey by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General (IG), the TSA missed 95 percent of the weapons and assorted contraband carried into commercial aircraft cabins by undercover investigators. A notable example this year suggested the TSA still has serious shortcomings despite the red flag: JetBlue TSA checkpoints at New York's Kennedy Airport were left unattended by agency employees, creating a frantic law enforcement search for people who had boarded and flown without being screened. Adding insult to injury, the TSA announced that it will be gradually increasing its highly intrusive personal frisks of passengers, primarily because the agency keeps missing prohibited items brought by travelers on their person or in carry-on luggage. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 It depends on what the real objective was in creating the TSA. For “W” is was optics after 911. For the Democrats, 30,000 more tenured voters on the federal tab for life. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-01-02 12:21 |
| #7 Adding insult to injury, the TSA announced that it will be gradually increasing its highly intrusive personal frisks of passengers Are they going to start having us bring our own lube now? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-02 11:42 |
| #6 In 2016 I’m sure it was theater. What will it be in 2018, now that they’re under new management? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-02 11:36 |
| #5 It's all about feelings, man! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-01-02 10:08 |
| #4 Subcontract it all out to El Al. Remove judicial |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-01-02 07:41 |
| #3 Or they are at the local donut shop. Las Vegas Airport had (still has?) a [male] disgusting fat pig for a TSA "agent". If this pig is the face of TSA, then, by golly, it's no wonder.... |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-01-02 05:46 |
| #2 When our Obama imported Syrians begin wearing suicide belts, you really think TSA is going to show up for work then, too? |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-01-02 04:50 |
| #1 It certainly is 'theater' at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. 'You want good quality oats, you must pay a premium price. If you want oats that have already been through the horse, those can be had a bit cheaper.' ~ anon |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-02 04:42 |