Wednesday, November 04, 2015
Feeling Safer Now?
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.
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Maybe we should switch to mock screening (without telling anyone), and hope that the placebo effect is strong enough...
Oh...and do I get to keep my shoes and belt on now?
More proof that the Federal Gov't can't run anything well.
Um...a lot of the screening is contracted to private sector firms...
They may not detect guns and bombs, but they intercepted my deadly shaving cream.
We went to London 10 years ago. They had already stopped making people take their shoes off. The TSA is a joke, but it isn't funny.
Um Don....I thought the article was about The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The TSA reminds me of a boss I used to have the misfortune of working for. Every time something went wrong (and, as we know, something always goes wrong), she'd institute a new log that we had to check every day to be sure what went wrong didn't go wrong again. By the time I stopped working for her (my sanity in tattered shreds), I was spending a good portion of my day completing those damn logs--many of which had never reflecting any problems because something happened once, got corrected, and never happened again.
/So, in summary, the TSA is like a nervous mid-level manager who refuses to accept that occasionally--occasionally--no matter what, things can go wrong. Reason 1,687 why I haven't flown in 20 years.
They did find a guy with SEVEN knives in his carry-on bag trying to board a plane at JFK recently. But how many have they missed? Too many.
TSA contracts out most of the screening; the fact that people were TSA uniforms doesn't actually make them TSA employees. (But, yeah, ultimately, the TSA is responsible.)
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