TSA Agents Routinely Fail To Spot Threats...

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  • sid
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 3198

    #1

    TSA Agents Routinely Fail To Spot Threats...

    This is no surprise to me.

    Homeland Security investigators trying to sneak mock knives, guns and explosives past TSA agents at airports reportedly were successful around third-quarters of the time, according to multiple reports of a classified briefing that was given to a House committee.
  • barretcreek
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2013
    • 6065

    #2
    A friend who spent his career in LE said making these guys federal employees didn't change anything.

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    • Vern Humphrey
      Administrator - OFC
      • Aug 2009
      • 15875

      #3
      I sound like a broken record, but people should be DISCIPLINED for these failures -- and not just the snuffies doing the searching, but their bosses.

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      • Tommy
        Very Senior Member - OFC
        • Oct 2017
        • 195

        #4
        Their called “window dressing”. Feel good idea by fools who couldn’t catch a cold.

        Tommy

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        • blackhawknj
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2011
          • 3754

          #5
          They're government employees. They're not there to do a job but to collect a paycheck and eventually a pension.

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          • JB White
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2009
            • 13371

            #6
            It took TSA a week before they noticed construction workers sneaking past long security lines at O'Hare Intl'. It wasn't hard to do but a couple of dummies got complacent and careless. Thus we were found out.
            Solution: They issued us ID's to make bypassing OK while they're strip searching grandma.(tic)
            2016 Chicago Cubs. MLB Champions!


            **Never quite as old as the other old farts**

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            • TomSudz
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2009
              • 3676

              #7
              Last year I came home from a trip to Florida. At the station I opened my laptop case and burst out laughing. The guys asked what was that funny. I turned the case for them to see my knife in it's usual spot- then told them I forgot to take it out before leaving. It went through the X-ray machine at 2 airports like that. The way it sits, the person looking at the screen would have seen it side on, with no question that it was a knife.
              I dream of a better world. One where chickens may cross the road without their motives being questioned.

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