The most-hated governmental organization in AmeriKa:
"TSA officers miss fake bomb" by The Associated Press | March 09, 2013
NEWARK — A New York congressman called for an extensive security review at Newark Liberty Airport after a newspaper reported Friday that a simulated explosive got past screeners.
Then the TOTALITARIAN TYRANNY does NOT WORK!
Representative Peter King’s letter to Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole followed a report in the New York Post. The newspaper said an undercover TSA inspector brought a mock improvised explosive device stashed in his pants through two layers of security last month. One of the security checks that failed to catch the mock device was a pat-down.
You see, there are not any real terrorists out there so these guys need to make them up and "think of things they would do."
I can't imagine the reason why. I just hope I don't shit my pants from laughing so hard.
King, a Republican who is a former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called for a “top-to-bottom” review.
The TSA did not confirm the report but said it puts screeners through “the most difficult and isolated training scenarios to ensure officers are able to detect even the most difficult to find devices.”
Since December 2011, more than 50 airport workers have faced TSA disciplinary action at Newark .
A federal report found that the TSA took corrective action on fewer than half of reported security breaches between January 2010 and May 2011.
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At least no one is getting any knives on the plane:
"TSA will drop ban on small knives" by Joan Lowy Associated Press | Associated Press, March 06, 2013
WASHINGTON — Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs, and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month under a policy change announced Tuesday by the head of the Transportation Security Administration.
The fact is everyone should be able to bring those things on the plane. This whole surveillance system is about monitoring people's travel. It's all based on the 9/11 lie and narrative.
The new policy conforms US security standards to international standards, and allows TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safety threats, the agency said in a statement.
You mean the ones they themselves are not creating?
The announcement, made by TSA administrator John Pistole at an airline industry gathering in New York, drew an immediate outcry from unions representing flight attendants and other airline workers, who said the items are still dangerous in the hands of the wrong passengers.
Transport Workers Union Local 556, which represents over 10,000 flight attendants at Southwest Airlines, called the new policy ‘‘dangerous’’ and ‘‘shortsighted,’’ saying it was designed to make ‘‘the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer.’’
‘‘While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin,’’ the union said in a statement.
The policy change was based on a recommendation from an internal TSA working group, which decided the items represented no real danger, said David Castelveter, a spokesman for the agency.
The presence on flights of gun-carrying pilots traveling as passengers, federal air marshals, and airline crew members trained in self-defense provide additional layers of security to protect against misuse of the items, he said. However, not all flights have federal air marshals or armed pilots on board.
The new policy permits folding knives with blades that are 2.36 inches or less in length and are less than 1/2-inch wide. The policy is aimed at allowing passengers to carry pen knives, corkscrews with small blades, and other knives.
Passengers also will be allowed to bring onboard as part of their carry-on luggage novelty-sized baseball bats less than 24 inches long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, and two golf clubs, the agency said.
The policy goes into effect on April 25.
Security standards adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency, already call for passengers to be able to carry those items.
Those standards are non-binding, but many countries follow them. Box cutters, razor blades, and knives that don’t fold or that have molded grip handles will still be prohibited, the TSA said.
If you buy that bulls*** story regarding the hijackings.
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What the policy change tells you is the US government itself knows the official 9/11 narrative is a myth.
"TSA’s shift to allow knives sparks debate" by Joan Lowy | Associated Press, March 09, 2013
WASHINGTON — Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals, airlines, and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration’s new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment such as souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs onto planes.
The Flight Attendants Union Coalition, representing nearly 90,000 flight attendants, said that it is coordinating a nationwide legislative and public education campaign to reverse the policy announced by TSA Administrator John Pistole this week....
Jon Adler, national president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, whose 26,000 members include federal air marshals, complained that he and other ‘‘stakeholders’’ weren’t consulted by TSA before the ‘‘countersafety policy’’ was announced.
He said the association will ask Congress to block the change.
The Coalition of Airline Pilot Associations, which represents 22,000 pilots, said it opposes allowing knives of any kind in airliner cabins.
‘‘We believe the [terrorism] threat is still real and the removal of any layer of security will put crew members and the flying public unnecessarily in harm’s way,’’ Mike Karn, the coalition’s president, said.
Then the level of totalitarian tyranny never decreases.
There has been a gradual easing of some of the security measures applied to airline passengers after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The new policy conforms US security standards to international standards and allows the TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safety threats, the agency said.
Same day it was reported a bomb got past their screeners.
The policy change was based on a recommendation from an internal TSA working group, which decided the items represented no real danger, the agency said.
Yeah, we know.
A TSA spokesman said the presence on flights of gun-carrying pilots traveling as passengers, federal air marshals, and airline crew members trained in self-defense provide additional layers of security to protect against misuse of the newly allowed items....
How much is all this going to cost?
The new policy has touched off a debate over the mission of TSA and whether the agency is supposed to concentrate exclusively on preventing terrorists from hijacking or blowing up planes, or whether it should also help protect air travelers and flight crews from unruly and sometimes dangerous passengers.
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Related: TSA wields wrong policy on carry-on knives
Also see: TSA Says Guns on Plane are O.K.
WTF?
At least the cancer causing scanners are being removed:
"TSA says it will end the use of revealing scanners" by Joshua Freed | Associated Press, January 19, 2013
Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away.
The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by June because the company that makes them can’t fix the privacy issues. The other airport body scanners, which produce a generic outline instead of a naked image, are staying.
The TSA defended the scanners, saying the images couldn’t be stored and were seen only by a security worker who didn’t interact with the passenger. But the scans still raised privacy concerns. Congress ordered that the scanners either produce a more generic image or be removed by June.
And health concerns seeing as cancer among TSA workers has surged. And if this government doesn't give a shit about them, what makes you think they care about you?
On Thursday Rapiscan, the maker of the X-ray, or backscatter, scanner, acknowledged that it wouldn’t be able to meet the June deadline. The TSA said Friday that it ended its contract for the software with Rapiscan.
The agency’s statement also said the remaining scanners will move travelers through more quickly, meaning faster lanes at the airport. Those scanners, made by L-3 Communications, use millimeter waves to make an image. That company was able to come up with software that does not produce a naked image of a traveler’s body....
Not all of the machines will be replaced. TSA spokesman David Castelveter said that some airports that now have backscatter scanners will go back to having metal detectors.
The government rapidly stepped up its use of body scanners after a man snuck explosives onto a flight bound for Detroit on Christmas day in 2009.
At first, both types of scanners showed travelers naked. The idea was that security workers could spot both metallic objects like guns as well as nonmetallic items such as plastic explosives. The scanners also showed every other detail of the passenger’s body.
For all the TSA perverts in the back.
The Rapiscan scanners have been on their way out for months, in slow motion.
The government hadn’t bought any since 2011. It quietly removed them from seven major airports in October, including New York’s LaGuardia and Kennedy airports, Chicago’s O’Hare, and Los Angeles International....
At the time, the agency said the switch was being made because millimeter-wave scanners moved passengers through faster.
Rapiscan parent company OSI Systems Inc. said it will help the TSA move the scanners to other government agencies. It hasn’t yet been decided where they will go, said Alan Edrick, OSI’s chief financial officer.
Scanners are often used in prisons or on military bases where privacy is not a concern....
It's not?
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"Small airports irked by removal of body scanners" by James MacPherson | Associated Press, March 07, 2013
BISMARCK, N.D. — Managers at dozens of small airports have expressed outrage at federal officials for hauling new full-body scanners away from their facilities and sending them to large hubs that have not yet upgraded older machines criticized for showing too much anatomy.
US Transportation Security Administration contractors were threatened with arrest after officials at a Montana airport said they received no notice before the workers arrived. In North Dakota, the scanners are set to be yanked from a terminal remodeled last year with $40,000 in local funds just to fit the new machines.
‘‘We think it’s silly to have installed the thing and then come back nine months later and take it out,’’ Bismarck airport manager Greg Haug said....
Your austerity-aged government at work, 'murkns!
TSA said that it will cost about $2.5 million to remove the machines from the 49 smaller airports and reinstall them at bigger facilities....
For a self-created threat that doesn't really exist.
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Also see:
Tools of Tyranny: Airport Screening
Troubles at the TSA
TSA Thieves
Airport Perverts
Any wonder why they are so reviled?
