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TSA fails 95% of Undercover DHS Tests

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TSA claims that it's "strong," but it failed 95% of tests to see whether mock explosives or weapons could be smuggled aboard a plane. DHS has issued a statement that in response to the Inspector General's report, a "series of actions" were immediately implemented.

EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports - ABC News

TSA failed 67 of 70 tests, even missing a weapon taped to a man's back after he'd set off the machine. This isn't what I call "strong."
 
The TSA?

Another monument to post 9/11 American paranoia and cowardice over terrorism.
 
TSA is a joke. They earn around $30,000/year and have a high turn-over rate. The whole thing is a mess.
 
The question is whether a 95% failure rate is acceptable and what's to be done.
 
nota bene said:
TSA claims that it's "strong," but it failed 95% of tests to see whether mock explosives or weapons could be smuggled aboard a plane. DHS has issued a statement that in response to the Inspector General's report, a "series of actions" were immediately implemented.

EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports - ABC News

TSA failed 67 of 70 tests, even missing a weapon taped to a man's back after he'd set off the machine. This isn't what I call "strong."
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Yet they will intently and suspiciously pat down a 3 year old girl in a wheelchair looking for explosives while telling the parents to not complain or video the event.

I am convinced that the terrorists that convinced us to end up with agencies like the TSA are laughing their collective asses off right now at this nonsense.
 
Sigh, except that it's not funny at all. The TSA isn't doing its job if 95% of the weapons in the test were successfully smuggled. I have to wonder to what point ordinary passengers are being inconvenienced if this is the best the TSA can do.
 
nota bene said:
TSA claims that it's "strong," but it failed 95% of tests to see whether mock explosives or weapons could be smuggled aboard a plane. DHS has issued a statement that in response to the Inspector General's report, a "series of actions" were immediately implemented.

EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports - ABC News

TSA failed 67 of 70 tests, even missing a weapon taped to a man's back after he'd set off the machine. This isn't what I call "strong."
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So can't we just get rid of it then? It's not even doing anything other than harassing air travelers.
 
My understanding of the TSA is it was never meant to actually keep us safer. The point of it was to make us feel safer. I do think there might be other reasons why the government would set up the TSA but those more properly belong in the conspiracy section most likely. Having seen the changes made to security and noticing the myriad ways even an untrained individual could bypass all airline restrictions I have to assume the point was to make people feel better, not actually make them safer.
 
Very curious about where you gained this "understanding." Where?
 
OK, let's look at what this is. The persons working the airports are required to do two things. One, examine the luggage and two examine the passengers. How in the wildest imagination can there be a 95% failure rate at doing those two simple tasks? 67 of 70 got through. I would love to read the story on the three that got caught. One person had a fake explosive device taped to the center of his back and got through and another the personal sweeper beeped and that person also got through. So the airbag that is in charge somehow still has a job. He stated "procedures" need changing. Really? How complex are these procedures? 1. frisk the passengers 2. look at their luggage----end of procedures. How many years has it been since 911??!! They have had 14 years to do two things correctly that I have listed here and still catch only 3 out of 70!!!!!!! How many millions of passengers have flow since 09-11-01? Right now how many terrorists are responding to this disgraceful finding. Plan to fly soon? I don't.
 
BrewerBob said:
TSA is a joke. They earn around $30,000/year and have a high turn-over rate. The whole thing is a mess.
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It is based upon a false premise--that 19 arabs with box cutters hijacked 4 airliners in 2001. Based upon such a hoax, how can it ever "provide security"?

Just another extravagant and expensive federal bureaucracy that is unnecessary.
 
TSA is stupid beyond belief and I get to look forward to standing in their idiotic lines as some moron frisks my two little white daughters again this year...
 
nota bene said:
Very curious about where you gained this "understanding." Where?
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This understanding came about because of my personal experience with the TSA procedures. Even the first time I went through the new procedures I saw dozens of ways to circumvent the security that would require trivial amounts of effort. Additionally having researched their body scanners and read the papers published on the technology I was able to surmise that they were in fact less effective in detecting concealed items then x-ray machines.

Additionally this understanding comes from the regular demonstrations of complete failure of the TSA to prevent the entry of unauthorized personal. As a personal example I had a ticket for one airport and accidentally went to a different one. I was sitting in the waiting area next to the ramp when I realized I was at the wrong airport. The people who checked my ticket and passed me through security did not recognize that my ticket did not entitle me to enter their airport. If that is not a complete failure of the process its hard to imagine what is.
 
Tetron said:
This understanding came about because of my personal experience with the TSA procedures. Even the first time I went through the new procedures I saw dozens of ways to circumvent the security that would require trivial amounts of effort. Additionally having researched their body scanners and read the papers published on the technology I was able to surmise that they were in fact less effective in detecting concealed items then x-ray machines.

Additionally this understanding comes from the regular demonstrations of complete failure of the TSA to prevent the entry of unauthorized personal. As a personal example I had a ticket for one airport and accidentally went to a different one. I was sitting in the waiting area next to the ramp when I realized I was at the wrong airport. The people who checked my ticket and passed me through security did not recognize that my ticket did not entitle me to enter their airport. If that is not a complete failure of the process its hard to imagine what is.
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I agree completely. I'm still in disbelief about the time the TSA took a 16oz bottle of saline off me. That dangerous, presumably potentially explosive, item was simply tossed in the trash and I was allowed to board. Had it been a real explosive there'd be lots of dead people at the TSA checkpoint. Had I been a real terrorist I would have lived to terrorize another day. You'd think if they really cared about catching terrorists they'd actually investigate each item.

Nope. The only conclusion I can draw is that the whole point of the TSA is to make timid travelers feel good. In my view it's a completely waste of money.
 
Henry David said:
It is based upon a false premise--that 19 arabs with box cutters hijacked 4 airliners in 2001. Based upon such a hoax, how can it ever "provide security"?

Just another extravagant and expensive federal bureaucracy that is unnecessary.
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Really? And how is it that all this fake bombs and weapons get through? Whether anything was a hoax or not is irrelevant.
 
American said:
Really? And how is it that all this fake bombs and weapons get through? Whether anything was a hoax or not is irrelevant.
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As a taxpayer, it angers me that an entire new cabinet-level federal agency was created and funded by way of a hoax. Apparently you see it as irrelevant, but I don't.

TSA and DHS are part of a scam. Thus it is no surprise that the Blue Shirts missed some well-concealed items in luggage. Perhaps you see it as a big deal, but I do not.

The big deal is their fraudulent existence and extravagant funding.
 
An additional indication that the TSA is not about protection but about making people feel safer is their lack of racial profiling. Say what you want about the ethics of rational profiling, in the case of terrorism it works. Not every muslim is a terrorist but virtually every terrorist is a muslim. If the TSA really wanted to protect they would employ racial profiling as it is a good tool for helping law enforcement with their jobs.
 
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