Former TSA Screener: Job Does Little to Keep Fliers Safe

[vvvvvvv]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/confessions_of_tsa_agent_we_re_bunch_OhxHeGd0RR9UVGzfypjnLO

It is perhaps America’s most unsafe airport. Despite being the launching point for one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 — Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania — Newark Airport has had numerous security violations since. The latest: a fake bomb that made it past Transportation Security Administration officers. Here, a Newark TSA screener who recently left the agency tells how silly policies and lazy workers do little to stop real threats...

 

[cichlid-dave]

Are we surprised?

 

[IndVet]

And yet there have been no more suicide planes since the policies went into effect!

Your explanation?

 

[Nimaro]

Reminds me of a quote from the Denzel Washington movie The Siege: "What if what they really want is for us to herd our children into stadiums like we're doing? And put soldiers on the street and have Americans looking over their shoulders? Bend the law, shred the Constitution just a little bit?" All the theatrics involved in airport security piss me off to no end

 

[sjr13]

not surprised a bit.

 

[vvvvvvv]

And yet there have been no more suicide planes since the policies went into effect!

Your explanation?

Cockpit security, not violations of passengers' rights protected by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

 

[Mr.357Sig]

The TSA and DHS are like an incurable cancer that are slowly eating away at the freedoms of our country. Security at the cost of freedom will achieve neither.

 

[ignerntbend]

I was going through the line at Houston Hobby and I was struggling to get my boots off, and the guy just sort of motioned me to come ahead on. It was like "no way this ignernt ass hillbillie is up to anything"
I felt a little insulted, ackcherly.

 

[jfssms]

I was going through the line at Houston Hobby and I was struggling to get my boots off, and the guy just sort of motioned me to come ahead on. It was like "no way this ignernt ass hillbillie is up to anything"
I felt a little insulted, ackcherly.

hell's bell's even the TSA doesn't take you seriously.

 

[donner]

I believe the two notable attempts failed (shoe and underwear) for reasons not related to TSA. That said the appearance of security is a form of security in and of itself.