Sacramento-area pilot punished for YouTube video

Zyphlin said:

I'll speak to what I'm most familiar with first......

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Zyphlin said:

Many of the things that this individual focused on are not things that the TSA has the dominion over. Now, I'm sure they COULD have it. But I'm sure it would also cause additional issues with travel which are so roundly and continually ALSO used to complain about the TSA. I've worked at a CAT-X airport, and the security of various doors, the enormous amount of workers, etc, aren't under TSA's umbrella.

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Redress said:

J-mac, did you read Zyphlin's post? He pointed out that the security "flaws" where not with TSA procedures. Here, let's look at what he said again:

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Zyphlin said:

Yep. Not going to claim to be an export, but I have never heard of the TSA checking the backgrounds, monitoring the work locations, etc of every employee in an airport. I know there are secure locations that you can access with a key card, that I believe the airport manages but its been a while and I'm having a bit of trouble remebering who I went to exactly for it. I remember seeing security at some of these doors occasionally, but typically the security hired by the airport. But to my understanding of it, and again I will admit I may be wrong if someone can provide some kind of factual evidence, I do not believe TSA has the authority and check over all airport employees and every segment of the airport.

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History and organization
Seal when under the Department of TransportationThe TSA was created in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. Its first administrator John Magaw was nominated by President Bush on December 10, 2001 and confirmed by the Senate the following January. The agency's proponents, including Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, argued that a single federal agency would better protect air travel than the private companies who operated under contract to single airlines or groups of airlines that used a given terminal facility.

The organization was charged with developing policies to protect U.S. transportation, especially in airport security and the prevention of aircraft hijacking.

With state, local, and regional partners, the TSA oversees security for highways, railroads, buses, mass transit systems, pipelines, ports. However, the bulk of the TSA's efforts are in aviation security. The TSA is solely responsible for screening passengers and checked and carry-on baggage at 450 U.S. airports. [5]

It also works with local police and other law enforcement official to reduce baggage theft in many airports. In Las Vegas in summer 2007, a sting operation caught two airport employees stealing weapons.[6]

Private screening did not disappear under the TSA, which allows airports to opt out of federal screeners and hire firms to do the job instead. Such firms must still get TSA approval under its Screening Partnership Program (SPP) and follow TSA procedures.[7] Among the U.S. airports with privately operated checkpoints are San Francisco International Airport; Kansas City International Airport; Greater Rochester International Airport; Tupelo Regional Airport; Key West International Airport; and Jackson Hole Airport.[8][9]

Among the types of TSA employees are:[10]

Transportation Security Officer: The TSA employs around 45,000 Transportation Security Officers, colloquially known as screeners. They screen people and property and control entry and exit points within an airport. They also watch several areas before and beyond checkpoints.[11][12]


Transportation Security Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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j-mac said:

Hmmm...Let's see here, Obama's thug Napalintano can search your groin, and the crotch of your 12 year old daughter, but don't blow the whistle on security holes on them....They then "punish" you....Nooooo, we are free here.

In other TSA news....

This is getting out of control. Shouldn't 'Big Sis' resign? I think she should, and then maybe we can get back to some sense of sanity, and not this authoritarian crack down of US citizens Obama has put in place through his thug in control of HSA.

j-mac

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