Homeland Security officials confirmed to Fox News that TSA screeners failed 67 out of 70 tests -- or 96 percent -- carried out by special investigators known as "red teams."Karl Denninger has a good perspective:
In one case, an undercover agent with a fake bomb strapped to his back set off a magnetometer -- but the screener still failed to find it.
If there had been a mere 10 said people in this country (out of 330,000,000 people in the nation) nine planes would have been blown up and the 10th guy would have detonated himself when he got caught, blowing up the airport instead.It also says, as Karl more or less points out, that nobody in the last 12 years has even tried to smuggle something onto a plane in America because the odds are almost certain that they would have succeeded.
But the most important thing it's saying is that every penny spent on the TSA is a waste. Again, the only surprise here is that they admitted it.
Cheer up, TSA. You're not completely worthless. You can always serve as a bad example.
My proposal for "fixing" TSA:
ReplyDeleteTake the 60,000 or so TSA agents anduse them to find illegal aliens in the U.S. Go city by city and go to the typical businesses that hire illegals. Find them and deport them withn 24 hours. As the effectiveness of this approach tapers off discharge/fire TSA agents until the TSA is completely disbanded. I believe that Illegals kill about 3000 people a year in the U.S. and commit a huge amount of personal crimes as well.
That is a nice idea, but I wonder how many TSA agents ARE illegals or foreign nationals?
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