slutmogs
Are you threatening me with violence
He’s so close to figuring it out
20 years ago it was fucking weird for ANY stranger to know your address. why is that a difficult concept to grasp.
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redbloodedamerica
Oops, I Did It Again (TSA Version)
Is there anyone that supports the TSA? Anyone?
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TSA misses 96% of explosives and weapons smuggled by undercover agents - UPDATE: TSA Director reassigned
According to a report, of the 70 times undercover agents tried to sneak explosives and weapons past TSA security agents, the TSA missed 67 of them. That’s a failure rate of 96% - Even with the naked scanners and the special groping. But hey, that’s not bad for government, I guess.
From ABC News:
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.
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.
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.
It’s one thing to give up liberty for actual security. It’s quite another to give up liberty for no reason at all.
I don’t want to pretend that it’s an easy task to catch every evil person trying to do others harm. But I remember in the wake of 9/11, the feds created the TSA and took over the security at airports, train stations and other transportation locations, ostensibly to make us safer. But I can’t imagine that the success rate for the pre-9/11 private security firms was worse than 4%.
This is a *perfect* example of how government operates in general. When something bad happens, whether it be a terrorist attack or an economic recession or some other real or perceived crisis, the government inevitably comes in to fix the problem and a new (usually permanent) federal agency, program or regulation is born that generally makes things worse than before. The New Deal, the post-Great Depression bank regulations, Social Security, The War on Poverty, Obamacare, etc. I could go on and on. Virtually every massive government program came into existence as the result of some crisis that we were told (by the government, of course) could only be solved by government. The TSA is no different.
Only the government can “fix” something until it’s broken, and then legally force people to keep funding it.
UPDATE: The TSA director has been reassigned due to his whopping 4% success rate of catching fake bad guys. In the real world, he would have gotten fired (or never hired in the first place). But in government world, he gets “reassigned” where he’ll no doubt have a cushy job until he retires with a 6-figure pension. Yay!
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Uh oh: 1,400 security badges missing from Atlanta International Airport
But don’t worry, the TSA is totally keeping you safe by patting down your kids and your grandmother.
from NBC:
Hundreds of ID badges that let airport workers roam the nation’s busiest hub have been stolen or lost in the last two years, an NBC News investigation has found. While experts say the missing tags are a source of concern because they could fall into the wrong hands, officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport insist they don’t pose “a significant security threat.” The wayward badges came to light when NBC-DFW asked airports across the country to reveal how many of them were unaccounted for. Only one, Atlanta, provided numbers before the Transportation Security Administration blocked the release of more data. But at that single airport, where almost 60,000 people work, some 1,400 badges that allow employees to access secure areas like runways and boarding gates have gone missing over roughly two years.
With the TSA blocking the release of wider data, it’s clear that the Atlanta airport is just the tip of the iceberg. The TSA is worthless at keeping Americans safe from threats, and the Obama administration’s “transparency” is a joke.
In a Breitbart Texas exclusive, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) directly challenged the truthfulness of public statements made by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
If you want to give them a one way ticket back to where they came from, I don't care if they have identification or not. But when you fly them all over the US, dumping them wherever you see fit, it is a HUGE problem.
The lack of common sense these people have is astounding.
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The TSA would be all over this...