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TSA Agents Failed To Catch 95% Of Mock Bombs And Weapons
The reason why "investing" in the economy in the form of government spending always, without fail, leads to adverse results and negative returns, is because unlike the private sector, there are neither checks and balances, nor punishment if one fails at their job. Case in point, the much maligned Transportation Security Administration, aka the TSA, best known for groping women and infants at airport checkpoints is about to be even more maligned because according to an exclusive report from ABC, TSA screeners failed ailed to detect mock explosives and weapons in 95% of tests carried out by undercover agents.
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.
Not surprisingly for the world's most transparent administration, even the utmost failure of government has to be kept a total secret. Or rather "especially"
Johnson issued a statement on Monday saying the results of the security checks were classified but that he had directed the TSA to revise screening procedures "to address specific vulnerabilities identified" in the undercover operation. He also ordered training for all TSA officers and supervisors across the country and testing of airports' screening equipment.
So, "we can't tell you what the vulnerabilities are, but make sure you address them." Ok then.
The result was so shocking to a government worker, he could not possibly fathom how other government workers could be so utterly worthless.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was apparently so frustrated by the findings he sought a detailed briefing on them last week at TSA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, according to sources. U.S. officials insisted changes have already been made at airports to address vulnerabilities identified by the latest tests.
“Upon learning the initial findings of the Office of Inspector General's report, Secretary Johnson immediately directed TSA to implement a series of actions, several of which are now in place, to address the issues raised in the report,” the DHS said in a written statement to ABC News.
He also unleashed a stern talking down of TSA agents because what is he going to do: fire them? Gotta keep that artificial GDP elevated somehow; take away billions in "sunk" government funds to keep Personal Consumption high and next come the triple seasonal-adjustments.
Well, unlike previous occasions during which the TSA fared just as poorly, this time there a consequence: the acting administrator for the Transportation Security Administration was reassigned.
"The numbers in these reports never look good out of context but they are a critical element in the continual evolution of our aviation security," Johnson said. "We take these findings very seriously in our continued effort to test, measure and enhance our capabilities and techniques as threats evolve."
Johnson noted that President Barack Obama had nominated Coast Guard Vice Admiral Pete Neffenger to be the next TSA administrator, and urged the U.S. Senate to confirm his nomination as quickly as possible.
And just like that, with that single act of "punishment" in which a government worker will continue to collect a government pay if at a diffent part of the government, all the incompetence, corruption and smothering bureaucracy in the government sector will be promptly fixed. Just like Greece.
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In the immortal words of...somebody: "Shut 'er down, Mac. Shut 'er down."
The TSA is too busy feeling your wife's boobs.
Johnson issued a statement on Monday saying the results of the security checks were classified
oops...
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TSA Agents Failed To Catch 95% Of Mock Bombs And Weaponsbut they grabbed a lot of T&A, and stole a lot of personal property.
Silly people. The purpose of the TSA is NOT to find weapons or stop 'armed' terrorists from boarding airplanes. Thus they cannot fail to do what they were never intended to do.
The TSA is all about conditioning the population. Papers please.
The TSA's incompetence has been public knowledge for years -this is how easy it is to get through scanners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEoc_1ZkfA
It's just another government works program. It always has been. So they say they're "paying" people instead of just giving them a welfare check.
I find your explanation more fitting then Cognitive Dissonance's "...all about conditioning the population. Papers please"
what is the public bill for scanning and other absolutely security-relevant equipment?
A (government) program can serve many purposes simultaneously, some better than others.
If you believe 9/11 was everything the US government says it is, and was, then the TSA is there to keep 'US' safe. If you see 9/11 for what it truly is, and was, then the TSA has another purpose in addition to all the usual government proffered reasons/purposes.
Dummys with dummy bombs trying to fool other dummies.
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95% FAILURE rate. Government at its best!!!
Lets hear it: "Well, they just need double the budget." "Well, they are better than nothing."
No they don't and no they aren't. TSA has always been a horrific joke. Homeland Security refuses to enforce the borders (homeland).
Can't wait until the TSA has an "income equality" division to go out and enforce income equality across the many states!!!
I would think that a 5% success rate for the TSA far exceeds the success rate of the SEC in tracking down financial crimes by the big banks.
So, is it once again unsafe to fly, now that the media has told the terrorist world that they have a 95% chance of getting a weapon or bomb on a plane..??
Is that the message here..??
Bugger...
Don't forget to take a look @ the ethnic mix of the TSA employees that contributed to a fuckin' SPECTACULAR 95% failure rate.
absolutely, but I see the difference between the public surveillance in the UK, which has no compulsory ID and the one here on the european continent, where in most countries there is a compulsory ID
this difference makes me think... differently
what is even the purpose of believing or not in any 9/11 theories, for me? totally wasted, from my perspective. which is this: an attack on NY happened, it was attributed to a terrorist group...
... and two countries were invaded, where one of them was actually a declared enemy of this terrorist group, and was allegedly full of WMDs. do I really need a theory?
besides the one that someone wanted to spend a cool trillion? hence my preference for NoDebt's simpler explanation, above
Interesting answer. A "simpler" explanation is simple primarily because of your perspective. One man's 'simple' is another man's complexity. Therefore there is no 'truth', only perspective......distorted and manipulated or crystal clear and uninhibited.
Always refreshing to hear your perspective Ghordius, especially the thinking behind it.
I see your "cool trillion" and raise you Rumsfeldt's 2.3 trillion...
Conditioning can result, without being purposeful.
We groped some folks.
Last time I flew (~2005) it was an affirmative action party.
Decided I would not fly again unless I was in a pine box with a Fed Ex sticker on it.
pods
FedEx does not accept dead bodies for handling.....other than its employees. LOL
CD - You're right this is a conditioning exercise. Kind of coincidental that this new study appears after the "lapse" of the "Patriot" Act. Scare people into submitting to more BS security measures is the equivalent of slowly turning up the water on the frog in the pot.
Yep. Classic Hegelian "Problem -- Reaction -- Solution" methodology.
Get ready for MOAR TSA. Because if it's failing, we need more of it!
Yep. Classic Hegelian "Problem -- Reaction -- Solution" methodology.
Get ready for MOAR TSA. Because if it's failing, we need more of it!
After 9/11, politicians insisted that government take over airline security.
"You can't professionalize if you don't federalize," proclaimed then-Sen. Tom Daschle.
The Propping up of governments GDP numbers would fly IF they shit canned the worthless ones and replaced them with more competent individuals but this would expose the flaw in their hiring practice, that being that they only hire brain dead morons that will follow all orders regardless of their legality. You can't fix stupid, hit the reset button.
that's the truth... I think over 90% of TSA employees are unemployable on the private sector
The TSA is a gaggle of criminals, pedophiles and perverts installed by Chertoff's Zio gestapo to dehumanize the citizens and prepare them for worse assaults on their bodies and civil liberties.
In a sane world, the TSA would be abolished, and all those dickless incompetents would be fucking fired. But, we don't live in a sane world, so the agency will probably end up getting more money so they can fail more.
Thats the way it works in the US gov world. "its not our fault, we only had ____ billion dollars, which is totally inadequate for our very important job of keeping you all safe" Ad infinitum, forever, until it all collapses
Fortunately this is all easily fixed. The problem obviously is due to a lack of proper funding that our stingy congress fails to provide. With our disabled critical NSA surveillance allowing secret communications between those who hate us for our freedoms, an in-flight terror attack is imminent. Once this has occurred, funding will flow like the Trinity River in Texas.
It has been said that we now live in a consumer economy. I would suggest that we now live in a crisis economy as there is no real markets left. Everything must be stimulated or "created" to induce spending. Spending that is the result, not of labor and earning, but of printing or debt, all originating with government.
There is no problem of which we can conceive that cannot (in theory) be resolved by government induced spending. None...zero...nada. There is no stronger hold over a people than its economy and it is anything but free or organic. It is absolutely centrally commanded.
Now you're catching on! Love the sarc..."stingy Congress".
I bet 10 million wetbacks would appreciate gettin paid $7.50 an hour to stand in air-conditioning and feel up women and kids. This would also make the employment numbers from the BS (bureau of statistics) follow the MiniTrue's narrative.
Easy solution
Anesthetize everybody before they board the aircraft.
Or wrap every passenger in kevlar duct tape.
Or seal them in bomb proof titanium pods attached to the aircraft
Or lobotomize the flying public
See? No problemo!
A good old lobotomy. Starting to sound better every day.
A scoop or two a day keeps the fear away.
<Just a little off the top doc.>
Hell, they ought to issue Every Passenger a Knife. Then everyone would be armed and Respectfull.
So simple.
George Orwell's 1984 certainly agrees but people need to remember there are alot of other countries out there so you do make a choice to accept that sort of thing..........
Just need to run the correct current through the correct part of the brain, to turn off consciousness:
http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/elusive-on-off-switch-found...
Just make all cars, trains, planes and ships automated, and render all passengers unconconcious. There, security fixed.
"Push the button, Frank!"
Obviously they need more custom airport golf carts and supervisors.
agree. Another federal agency we can dispense with.
Each air carrier themselves should provide their own level of screening and for God's sake let the market sort it out.
And Rome begins to crumble.
Thank God for mock bombs and weapons or there would be none at all. Then people will ask why they must put up with TSA humilation at every US airports. Don't want that to happen.
This means that virtually ZERO people tried to blow up planes since the TSA's Fascism Franchise began. It also means that anyone who would have tried, would have made it through screening. Indeed, those who did try, did make it through (like shoe bomber guy).
One is statistically more likely to be murdered by agents of the Gummint, than an individual attempting to blow up an airline.
...but it created Jawbz.
That's it. Time for a major upgrade in procedures. If you thought the current mode of operation was intrusive, you ain't seen nothing yet. Mandatory cavity searches for all. You want to fly safe don't you? Only a terrorist would protest having a bomb detector thrusted up their rectum
gotta watch er..she creeps
Of course they haven't caught anyone....they're too busy grabbing away people's mineral water, candy bars and toe clippers.
"Johnson issued a statement on Monday saying the results of the security checks were classified but that he had directed the TSA to revise screening procedures "to address specific vulnerabilities identified" in the undercover operation."
That would include everything.
Human scum. Each and every one of them. Don't serve them, don't rent to them, ignore them. Heap scorn on them. They can "just do their job" as untouchables.
These perverted retards employed as TSA agents are on a personal power trip, so not very surprising they could not find explosives strapped to someones back, if they had strapped it to their genitals the TSA agents would have found it within seconds.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-settles-with-tsa-over-breast-milk-inci...
The youtube video of the above is quite incredible.
Another zio hoax foisted on the global population to bring them complete humiliation. Time for a change.
That's because the TSA is not there to find bombs and weapons, their real job is conditioning the Goyim to submit.
I like the little picture of the TSA agent patting the womans hair. That's it! All passengers must be shaved on site, drapes and carpet!... and naked. Yeah, shaved and naked, except for a credit card or two. They can buy new clothes at their "final destination" (channeling Carlin). Paging Doctor Krugman! Please pick up the white courtesy phone!...No, the WHITE one!
After seeing the fat, tattoo'd American sheople with their clothes on, I don't think I'd want to see them shaved and naked.
Excuse me while I go puke from the image.
Were they supposed to actually catch something illegal passing through? Wow! I thought they were there just to deliver a message to us. "Be afraid, be very afraid!" That sort of message.
I won't fly anymore because of them. They stole nail clippers from me. Took my some of my wife's things, probably took them home for personal use.
Put this stupid powder on my hands one time, apparently looking for explosives.
Always have to take off my belt and foot wear and have to walk holding up my pants otherwise I would be charged for indecent exposure and you can't say a word because they don't care if you make your flight or not.
Between TSA and Homeland Security, it doesn't pay to go to the USA anymore as a tourist. There are other countries far more friendly to travellers and more efficient.
But as long as everyone is feeling safe from 'terrorism', I guess Americans are happy. I feel sorry for the people as they don't realize how duped they have become.
Sons o bitches made me break off the nail file on my clippers 13 years ago, and I'm still pissed. Stole my fathers marlin spike, he kept that in his dop kit for decades. Grrr.
When they must pass a law/policy, making it "illegal" to make jokes about the TSA, that should be a visible sign even a blind sheep could see.
Note: TNT being the most common explosive, was disabled from Denver's "sniffing equip". Why? it's used for avalanche control, and causes all those annoying "false readings" when the ski gear is sent through.
Remember the Claymore the soldier brought back as a souvenir? The high dollar disposal/containment device they had at the airport was a mile away, and wouldn't fit in the fucking elevator, to get it there. I met a guy who offered to carry it out for them, and as he pointed out, if the baggage handlers haven't set it off yet by banging it around, halfway across the globe, I sure as hell won't carrying it out of here.
That man walked off the job due to the stupidity, that is the TSA.
PS In my "Backscatter photo" standing as the pictograph shows you to, they will see both hands above my head each have only one finger extended, the middle one. They told me 5 times to correct this, before they took the pic.
It has been years since I flew domestically as well. Why feed or flatter the beast?
We spend over $60 billion a year on DHS to terrorize the public. Maybe if we spend $600 billion a year, we may catch 50% of mock weapons.
The 20,000 drones planned for American skies by 2020 will surely help catch more weapons. And that will only cost $10 billion a year extra.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Consider it another zio tax.
But, but, but, if that is the case why haven't the "boogie men" been successful in their evil plans to kill us?
I'll take dangerous freedom over safe slavery for $1,000.
I'd be surprised if 5% could pass a high school exit exam.
The TSA is the Keynesian wet dream
I thought that government was spelled
i n c o m p e t e n t .
And the penultimate joke of it all, the true terrorists, the zionists, fly in and out of countries on their private jets, pillaging and raping, without ever being scanned or patted down. This whole farce has become laughable.
See, that nake man in the airport had it right. You want to catch all bombs, get everyone naked then do cavity searches.
Because no one wants to THINK anymore! Everyone wants some 'formula', some algorithm that they can mindlessly follow to success. The focus is on WHAT they are doing rather than WHY they are doing it.
The TSA isn't being trained to THINK, they are being trained to mindlessly follow a bunch of instructions on doing physical searching. They aren't being trained to take note of this or that (not allowed to 'profile'...) but instead to run their hands over someone in a certain way.
They are more concerned with what their hands are doing than about what their hands are supposed to be looking for.
This is absolutely correct, and describes a broader societal problem. It's true in medicine, education, business... everywhere. Procedures have been crowned king. We are quite efficiently and rapidly draiining any remaining intelligence from human behavior. Horrible process to watch!
Makes you wonder how valuable the NSA's targeting systems/risk ID algorithms are for all that data collection. You cant have an analyst analyze all those terabytes. I bet that data center is the equivalent of the biggest digital garbage dump in the world, replete with all the favorite .govtard bullshit.
BINGO!
This is what I've been saying about all this data collection...It's USELESS without being analyzed by a thinking person. Their algos are MUCH more likely to get it wrong because they can only go in a linear fashion. Human behavior is too nuanced for any system to properly translate.
And having the data collection is counterproductive, because it creates a 'laziness' in our intelligence community. They become dependent on the machines, and neglect their own training. They lose the all-important ability to trust in their own feelings and analyze the info they are getting. Instead, they feed it all into a computer and wait for the printed receipt that tells them what to do.
They'd get twice the results for a fifth of the money if they focused on the good old-fashioned "police work" of intell gathering and interpretation. And in hiring people with the ability to understand human nature and work with difficult people. That is an art, not a skill that can be learned, btw. You either have it or you don't. Too many of the people working in intelligence don't, and that is a huge problem. Book-smart and people-stupid. And now, at the mercy of machines to do their job.
'This photo is of me and mom grabbing an ice cream at Carvel. Look at my chocolate sprinkles".
It's like we are putting our brains on cruise control...
In Europe they are FAR down that road - here in the USA we are catching up rapidly.
Not even the Israelis, probably the most hated people on earth, do this at their airports - their agents are trained to look for suspicious characterss, what PC americans would call "profiling" - which obviously works better than the groping robotics of "TSA" (Touching Sensitive Areas).
Absolutely...Whatever you may want to say about the Israelis, they DO know how to run an airport. And they aren't hobbled by the whole "PC" thing here that makes profiling problematic.
In fact, most of your 'checking' of passengers should be done without their even knowing it.
I dated a guy who worked for the TSA about 10 years ago. (Hey I was young and stupid). He said to never fly, it's not safe. He made the news when he stopped someone from getting on a plane with a gun, then got a serious dressing down from his bosses for stopping this person because it gained a lot of attention. Basically he was supposed to let those with weapons through. So, if 95% make it by them, the TSA is doing their jobs as instructed.
the data also say the feds are the only ones carrying weapons onto airplanes.
That is because the bombs weren't placed within the cornhole. The TSA is known for finding bombs placed within the anus...
Princess Fiona?
Here comes the spin. That's because they realized immediately that these were mock bombs and weapons. Yeah baby, they are that good.
Since any actual terrorist incident allows the Government to tighten control, then maybe Government is frustrated that there haven't been any real terrorist incidents lately.
So the report is a heads up from the Government to all the "1000's" of potential terrorists out there that "Shields Are Down, So Do Something Already!"
The TSA has nothing whatever to do with detecting bombs or protecting America and Americans from harm. The TSA has everything to do with power, control, fear, and preparing Americans for police state tactics. We are sheep being led, ever so gently, towards the slaughter house.
TSA was never meant to work.
I was created to condition you that you have no privacy.
CNN will program you while waiting for your flight.
You're being treated more like lab rats than sheep.
God how I hate being in public places where CNN is being played (loud!). They are desperate to forcefully insert their message into people's brains. It's infuriating. I guess they hit the wrong nerve with me: they were aiming for fear, but they've tapped anger (at them).
And despite this, you just see all these incidents of those evil terrorists we are told exist bombing or hijacking planes.
Very impressive how we are told there all these terrorists hell bent on destorying us yet zero, zilch, nada, incidents occur.
Blows my mind people believe this propganda bullshit.
Fire all the TSA and repair some bridges with the money why don't you. F'n NYC is in need of maintenance and so is the water system in SoCal.
I was shocked their miss rate was that low (95%)! This is what is expected when you have to rely on your federal government to "protect" you. After all - it's their ONLY job. Pathetic losers - every damn one of them.
It's been 13 fucking years, they're still "evolving?"
Pathetic.
Look at it this way, amoeba have been around for probably a few hundred million years, and they are still evolving too.
The only reason the TSA agents are not working at McDonald's is that they could pass the drug tests...
They need to automate that shit.
@McDonalds, you get arrested for groping a child's genitals. TSA is the place to be . . . if you are a pedophile.
That fail rate is pretty much average for anything this government does.
The fact that people fly in these filthy poorly maintained cattle cars at all gives testament to Americans poor judgement.
What the hell is that guy feeling her head for? Tumors, Horns, bugs is it her husband or what? I brought one of my computers back last year dismantled with the power supply and all the wires hanging out and they never said a word. I was surprised. I guess they don't look for stuff like that.
"You can't professionalize unless you federalize," agreed Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
In a 100-0 vote, the Senate passed a security bill that would put all 28,000 screeners and other airport security personnel on the federal payroll.
"You can't professionalize unless you federalize," agreed Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
In a 100-0 vote, the Senate passed a security bill that would put all 28,000 screeners and other airport security personnel on the federal payroll.
Oh...great. This really is a form of welfare then.
What a shocker! The federal make-work program didn't produce any meaningful results. Fire the lot of them. We'd get more, and ostensibly better, results if they were all on welfare.
Purely anecdotal (and probably racist) but it seems we are faced with one of two choices. We can either fully indoctrinate minorities into the welfare lifestyle of dependency, or affirmatively hire them to positions in our government employ, of which they cannot be fired regardless of how poorly or destructively they perform, while also finding ourselves under their rule...they effectively become OUR masters. From city and county offices to the president of the United States. If I were a black man, this would piss me off far more than any direct racism, for regardless of how hard I might work to advance myself, I would be looked upon as no different that the worst of the affirmative action whores.This ensures that the dominant "achiever" will not be our moral superior, nothing to be looked up to or provide role models.
AS with our economic markets, there is no real markets in anything, not even personal achievement for no matter how hard you work or honest you may be, it will always be assumed that you didn't earn it, simply because corruption exists in every facet of our lives. It is the assumed path. Very sad for all our futures.
I went thru customs in NYC about 2 years ago. I had 2 ounces of gold coins stolen by TSA niggers, who flagged the carry on that I was carrying them in. I thought it was strange, looked in the bag, and confronted them. They threatened to arrest me. I made a complaint and nothing came out of it, they acted like I was the criminal. That's the kind of nigger Affrimative Action hires they have! I would love to see a terrorist blow up a bunch of those nigger bastards!
Now see, they were merely helping relieve you of your white privilege. You should have thanked them.
"A New Jersey native carrying a note that said he
wanted to kill TSA opened fire inside a packed Los Angles airport".
Hero!
Most of them are waiting for their 5 year anniversary so they can discover their new disability and collect the free monthly check.
FUCK YOU TSA!
These reprobates did however create the largest voyeur porn collection in the world. There is nothing more immoral and sick than the current state of affairs in America.
Al CIAduh watches This. LMFAO
More pretext for ass fingering, ball groping high school drop outs and petty thieves. Liberty be damned , because "they" are out to get "us".
FuckU MSM and the ZOG you work for.