If TSA Were Private, Congress Would Be Firing Them All But Since It Is A Government Agency All We Hear Is Crickets!

The TSA looks pretty useless

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Personal Liberty News Desk

The Transportation Security Administration claims that allowing its agents to feel you up, see through your clothes and rifle through your belongs is essential to keeping you safe on an airplane. You know, so no one sneaks a box cutter onboard. Given the trade of dignity and privacy for security, how often do you think it would be acceptable for agents to fail to identify threats?

If you answered 0 percent, you’re going to be a little disappointed.

According to a recent report out from ABC, the TSA failed to find weapons or bombs 80 percent of the time during undercover tests.

From the report:

When ABC News asked the source [familiar with the tests] if the failure rate was 80 percent, the response was, “You are in the ballpark.”

In a public hearing after a private classified briefing to the House Committee on Homeland Security, members of Congress called the failures by the Transportation Security Administration disturbing.

Rep. Mike Rogers went as far as to tell TSA Administrator David Pekoske, “This agency that you run is broken badly, and it needs your attention.”

Pekoske was confirmed by the Senate this summer.

Inspectors “identified vulnerabilities with TSA’s screener performance, screening equipment and associated procedures,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.

The statement added that the findings remain classified but that eight recommendations have been made to the TSA to improve checkpoint security. It is not clear what those recommendations are.