Newsstand - security co. seeks damages in court due to TSA takeover

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031114005510&newsLang=en


November 14, 2003, St. Louis, MO -- Huntleigh USA Corporation, whose private airport security business was destroyed when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) took over the task of screening passengers and baggage at U.S. airports, today asked a federal court to order the government to compensate it for the lost business.

It appears from this article that "Congress Specifically Backed Compensation, but the TSA Declined ". If true, it doesn't suprise me at all, as it falls right in line with the TSA's prior, nonsensical actions. Too bad we're paying for it.


Please don't forget to leave your luggage unlocked.

Interesting read.

And I like the Q&A:

"Q13: Isn't Huntleigh involved in the litigation that arose out of the September 11 hijackings? What’s the status of those suits?

Huntleigh is one of many defendants in a number of cases related to 9/11. Huntleigh believes it performed its services in full compliance with all then-existing rules and regulations. These lawsuits are in the very early stages and therefore it is not possible to predict the ultimate outcome.


Q14: Some would argue that security broke down on September 11 and the federal government chose to step in. Should the government compensate a company that was part of the previous system?

In fact, after September 11, the government showed confidence in Huntleigh's ability to perform airport security work. Huntleigh performed security at many domestic airports after 9/11 – on behalf of the Transportation Security Administration – while the government put together its workforce of federal security screeners. Then when the TSA terminated another security firm after September 11, it asked Huntleigh to step in and perform some of that work."

That shows right there that security on 9/11 didn't break down. What broke down was the government and it's intelligance network.

I am not sure how anyone can say that security broke down on 9/11 - or least that part that involves this and other companies.

1 - It was POLICY to allow hijackers to do what they wanted.

2 - It was policy to make the cockpit easily accessible.

3 - It was policy to allow small knives on a plane.

4 - It was, and still is policy to check ID cards, even though it does not solve any problem, other than forcing bad guys to maybe get fake IDs.

Somebody thought that if gov't paid (TSA) screeners looked for pointy objects we would be safer. We are not.

The problem is,NoStressHere, that it is a lot of somebodies that blame the security and airlines on 9/11.

And I think that is pretty sad.