Originally Posted by
SATTSO
Just to bring simulant explosives onto an airport - simulant as in how it appears on the x-Ray, nothing that goes "pop" - takes weeks and weeks of paper work. TSA BAOs can not even bring in real explosives into the airport. If what the GAO testers used was not simulant, and it wasn't, whY exactly did they use? Putting something together and calling it an IED just because you want it to represent one, does not make it appear so on the x-Ray.
Come on. TSA does that all the time by claiming things are IEDs when they're just innocuous devices that don't have anything like that in it. You know, like that homemade extended battery? If TSA can find stuff like that, why can't it find test IEDs? We know screeners have good imaginations.
It also wonders why TSA isn't spending more money on x-rays and nistead spending its money on nude-o-scopes, uniforms, and tin badges.