If you have flown on commercial airlines over the last 15 years, then you know how awful the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is. If you haven’t flown in the last 15 years… consider yourself lucky.
Just last summer, the director of the TSA resigned after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that the agency failed to detect an astounding 95% of weapons and explosives in tests by undercover DHS teams. These DHS teams conducted 70 tests at airports across the nation, and the TSA failed 67 of those tests. Despite the fact that the agency has spent over $500 million of taxpayer money on new equipment, the agency’s failure rate is higher than it was ten years ago.
Recently, reports have surfaced that TSA agents have been stealing expensive items — such as iPads, laptops, and jewelry — from passengers’ bags. Now, whistleblowers claim that 100+ screeners are quitting the “agency in crisis” every week. To read about this mass exodus from the troubled agency, and to watch videos from the hearing continue reading on the next page:
TRAITOR Obama
We don’t have a single, not one, department in the Obama administration that is not reeked with corruption….that alone should get him impeached and imprisoned for corruption. Just what is it gonna take to get this sorry$#%&!@*congress to act.
Thank Obama.
It is a dangerous, low paying job. The majority make under 40k per year. Work is done under banks of 360 degree cameras so I believe theft is exaggerated greatly by the media. I observed passengers grabbing wrong Ipads and other electronics and constantly accusing the highly trained federal officers of theft. I never heard of an actual theft at my duty station. The DHS has poor quality leadership of a mostly outstanding workforce. Improvements in equipment and changes in the way people fly must be made for safe flight to become a reality. The teams that conducted the tests I am sure did everything to tilt conditions to their favor probably including items that were difficult to detect and maybe concentrating tests on locales with highest turnover. Fliers would be safer if only those flying were allowed in the airport. Israels system is a model we could learn from.
Every body in government steals
thieveing idiots and assholes are all we have in our government now
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Just get rid of the damn TSA and replace it with a private contractor. Any thing “federal” can never do anything right! Get rid of them and their bloated over paid people
Well Stephen, first you have to be black. If you are white you are not “entitled” to first pickings for fed jobs. Notice how TSA are all or most all are black! Problem solved.
Just another typical government agency. Uselsee, corrupt and costing the taxpayers a fortune.