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Geez - so what they're saying is that all those pat-downs and scanners are useless?

posted by adnohr on December 18, 2010 at 2:41 AM | link to this | reply

TZ.....It hardly matters with headlines like these......

"Gaping Holes in Airline Security: Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA Screeners"

"Secret Tests At LAX, O'Hare, Newark Show TSA Screeners Missed Guns, Bombs"

Experts tell ABC News that every year since the September 11 terror attacks, federal agencies have conducted random, covert "red team tests," where undercover agents try to see just how much they can get past security checks at major U.S. airports. And while the Department of Homeland Security closely guards the results as classified, those that have leaked in media reports have been shocking.

According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles's LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago's O'Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times.

posted by Corbin_Dallas on December 17, 2010 at 1:18 PM | link to this | reply