Boggie Dog

I didn't speculate on exactly what eyecue meant by that statement so I asked.

Unfortunately eyecue has a habit of dropping in but not hanging around to discuss her statements.

chollie

I suspect a successful daily vetting means the badge reader didn't reject your badge, nothing more.

Even that would be highly suspect, given the hundreds of unaccounted-for credentials.

Boggie Dog

Even simpler, there are no warrants out for them.

FliesWay2Much

...and doesn't take piggybacking into account...

WillCAD

I'll second this question: What the heck do you mean by that?

I have serious doubts that TSA checks the identities of all 60,000 TSA employees against the no-fly list, terrorist watch lists, NCIC, or anything else, on a daily basis.

I doubt that the union even runs the entire 60,000 employee roster to check for unpaid dues more than twice a week.

Dude, that's totally against the rules! It's like, a fireable offense!

I wonder how many tens of thousands of TSOs do it on a daily basis?

chollie

OK, what am I missing here?

If I book a plane ticket, supposedly my name is checked against a variety of databases to make sure I'm not listed somewhere.

But TSA can't check their own employees against these databases because they claim they don't have all the access they need?

No animus, but this is seriously the worst-run organization I have ever had the misfortune to encounter - and I am not even talking about the checkpoint experience.

HQ spokespeople who consistently post misleading or flat-out wrong information - I won't use a harsher and more accurate term, but Blogdad Bob clearly does not understand the meaning of truth. But you also had Ross, who sounded honest, who said the 'name game' was gone at airports - and it wasn't.

You've got HQ funding sign-up stations and advertising for Pre even as more and more airports are watering it down or refusing altogether to offer it (PHX, notably, but there are others).

You had John Pistole publicly apologizing to Mr. Sawyer and assuring him that no TSO would ever again manhandle and rupture a pax ostomy bag - yet a few months later, the same thing happened to Sawyer again at the SAME airport (fortunately the bag didn't burst the second time).

They are waaaaay worse than the IRS ever dreamed of being. The IRS has its faults, but there is a sense that it is a coherent organization with a sense of mission.

TSA - even at HQ, 'consistent inconsistency' abounds.

Boggie Dog

Part of what you are missing is that this isn't only about TSA employees. Part of what is being reported is that TSA doesn't have in place policies mandating that airport workers have ongoing security checks completed and there are questions about the initial checks and workers status to even have the authority to enter the sterile area.

Read the report carefully and you will realize that TSA is putting us all at risk.

eyecue

TSA employees are run through the watch list databases every 24 hours. The NCIC checks and local checks are conducted yearly and randomly also. Then there is the 10 year reinvestigation that includes EVERYTHING including financial status. My last 10 year review took 90 minutes with 2 examiners!

petaluma1

Now the story changes.

eyecue

The issue with all other employees and buck passing is every SIDA employee at an airport has to have a background check done. TSA runs them and there WAS an issue with TSA checks not being allowed access to other agencies response codes to the query . So some of the employees that are not TSA could have been on a database for another agency and that agency did not have integration into TSA's system so the results were not valid. The issue has since been corrected.

eyecue

How so?

eyecue

IT does not take long to run a database checks on known members. If you use a database signature file and the file has not changed, then the result is null.

petaluma1

First it was runs every employee every 24 hours. Now it's down to runs every employees through the watch list every 24 hours - as if that is going to find anything - and running the more important NCIC and local lists once yearly.

Boggie Dog

You say TSA does background checks? Isn't that actually contracted out to government contractors who a few years back were found to be pencil whipping the checks? And in the reported story original and follow up checks are not being completed properly.

Now I agree TSA is responsible for oversight of background checks but like most other things TSA is responsible for TSA has failed in this endeavor also.

WillCAD

And this is standard for all TSA employees regardless of whether they screen passengers or luggage? Like, the janitors at TSA HQ? Or did you mis-type, and mean to say that these checks are conducted on TSOs and screening personnel?

By the way, I'm going to guess that the information you just posted is most likely SSI, and by posting it on the internet you may have violated your employment agreement and could be subject to termination.