TSA Says No Need To Remove Your Shoes Or Be Searched
Nov 12, 2014, 5:32 am
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TSA Says No Need To Remove Your Shoes Or Be Searched
Passengers are actually complaining that TSA allows them to board airplanes without removing their shoes or even searched. According to TSA most passengers are low risk so when there are too many people on line they move some over to the pre-clearance line. This has been happening in the NY area airports. Are people that indoctrinated that they miss being groped and removing their shoes.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/11/...urity-threats/
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/11/...urity-threats/
Nov 12, 2014, 6:18 am
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Warning: Do not go to the linked article unless you wish to run the risk of losing brain cells from reading it. I have already done the heavy work and saved you the trouble. Here is a pull quote that is typical of the whole article:
You have been warned.
In a statement the TSA said that security is being driven by intelligence.
Nov 12, 2014, 10:35 am
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“The whole thing about security is supposed to be consistency,” said security expert Manuel Gomez.
Gomez, a former FBI agent, said that seeing this in busy airports worries him.
“The TSA, for convenience sake, has chosen to be inconsistent in order to expedite travelers getting through the airport security process,” he said.
Gomez too has been ushered through reduced security, and said the practice could give the wrong people bad ideas.
“Then terrorists could simply keep probing our security and say, ‘OK, statistically speaking, I will eventually get on the pre-check line, and I could then board with whatever explosive that I choose,” he explained.
Gomez, a former FBI agent, said that seeing this in busy airports worries him.
“The TSA, for convenience sake, has chosen to be inconsistent in order to expedite travelers getting through the airport security process,” he said.
Gomez too has been ushered through reduced security, and said the practice could give the wrong people bad ideas.
“Then terrorists could simply keep probing our security and say, ‘OK, statistically speaking, I will eventually get on the pre-check line, and I could then board with whatever explosive that I choose,” he explained.
TSA has said many times that Inconsistency is an integral part of their screening process, designed to keep The Terrorists guessing, so that it is impossible to predict exactly which procedures a Bad Guy would encounter on any given day.
We all know it's hogwash designed to disguise rank incompetence, abysmal training, and zero accountability, but still, it's the official line of BS. Yet here is a supposed "expert", a former FBI agent (how does a background in criminal investigation make someone an expert on physical security and screening, I've always wondered, but I digress), who hasn't thought his own statement through at all.
Sure, you could try multiple times to get an explosive through the lines - TSA calls this "probing" - but if you're carrying an explosive and are caught by the screening process, you won't be around to keep trying again and again, because you'll be in jail.
On the other hand, it's entirely possible to smuggle explosives through even the highest level of TSA screening, simply because they're not looking for C4 or semtex, they're looking for water bottles, snow globes, cupcakes in jars, photographs of firearms, and of course, cash, checks, and weed.
Nov 12, 2014, 9:39 pm
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The best c
mment on that article said this:
mment on that article said this:
The TSA: Addressing yesterday's security vulnerabilities tomorrow.
Nov 13, 2014, 7:28 am
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No surprise. I once watched an American berate a security guard at YYZ for not requiring the removal of shoes (it's not mandatory in Canada unless the flight is U.S. bound.)
I remember a time when "land of the free and home of the brave" actually meant something.
I remember a time when "land of the free and home of the brave" actually meant something.