Hey! Howza ’bout that TSA? After taking off your shoes and belt and getting groped not to mention body scanning machines and all this after standing in long lines and dealing with surly entitled gummint workers it turns out it’s a waste of time. Speaking of surly TSA employees, Hartsfield-Corrupt Mayor Airport certainly has its share.
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 has learned.
Ain’t that just dandy?
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.
But I’m sure that here in Atlanta, the TSA workers have a pretty good success rate at stealing stuff.
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.
Officials would not divulge the exact time period of the testing other than to say it concluded recently.
Kabuki theater all the way down.
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. U.S. officials insisted changes have already been made at airports to address vulnerabilities identified by the latest tests.
“Upon learning the initial findings of the Office of Inspector General’s report, Secretary Johnson immediately directed TSA to implement a series of actions, several of which are now in place, to address the issues raised in the report,” the DHS said in a written statement to ABC News.
In other words, TSA workers are gonna get even ruder and make your flying experience worse that it actually is. Ya gotta blame someone so TSA management will blame the passengers and the workers will cooperate by being ruder than they actually are, if that’s possible.
Homeland security officials insist that security at the nation’s airports is strong – that there are layers of security including bomb sniffing dogs and other technologies seen and unseen. But the officials that ABC News spoke to admit these were disappointing results.
This is not the first time the TSA has had trouble spotting Red Team agents. A similar episode played out in 2013, when an undercover investigator with a fake bomb hidden on his body passed through a metal detector, went through a pat-down at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Airport, and was never caught.
At the time, the TSA said Red Team tests occurred weekly all over the United States and were meant to “push the boundaries of our people, processes, and technology.”
“We know that the adversary innovates and we have to push ourselves to capacity in order to remain one step ahead,” a TSA official wrote on the agency’s blog in March 2013. “[O]ur testers often make these covert tests as difficult as possible.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! As difficult as possible? GMAFB! The whole purpose of the TSA is to make us think that the gummint can actually protect us.
“We gotta protect our phony baloney jobs gentlemen” – Governor William J. Lepotoman
The TSA. Just another gummint jobs program.
Meanwhile, while we have to submit to this farce, our southern border is wide open and neither political party seems to want to take care of that problem.
We’re edging closer to the sort of inspection portrayed in “An American Carol”.
Either that or we’ll all soon be subjected to the Voight-Kampff test.
We need to just get rid of the TSA and let passengers be responsible for their own safety. If it was up to me, people would be prescreened as soon as they purchase the ticket, then those who have CCW permits would be notified that they would receive a 5% discount IF they brought their heat to the airport. I would board them and all off duty law enforcement first, and have a pow wow with them just past the last suckerity point, where they would all be introduced, then give them the pep talk about not shooting people who don’t need to be dead.
would position at least one of them behind every person with an arab sounding name, or any one who showed up wearing camel molester garb.
Even the palistidiots wouldn’t be wanting a part of that.
I would also serve ham sandwiches for the first inflight meal.
The Archie Bunker solution. Give everybody a rod.
Works for me…
Denny- I thought you gave us Saturday Boobage so we could all have a “rod”.
Better yet, make every one EAT the ham sandwich before boarding.
Actually, I think the TSA is doing well in their real mission of conditioning passengers into their new roles as subjects, not citizens. I haven’t flown since the nineties because I don’t believe in giving up the Bill of Rights at the airport door.
Exactly how I feel. I agree with you with 100%. What truly disgusts me is how our border with Mexico is wide open. Security indeed. This all conditioning.
I guess they need more money. That’s always the solution to failed govt programs.
I haven’t flown since they initiated this crap but I still have to go through the gates to pick up my son when he comes to visit. And that is absurd on its own.
I have to be accompanied to a place to meet him,they will not just let him come out on his own. He’s 13.
May I submit for your consideration the premise that the real reason for TSA is to determine the level of oppression the American people will submit to before overt rebellion occurs. The greater the oppression submitted to, the greater the level of oppression to (soon) follow.