OK, let's parse this.

1. Some TSA employees at LAX allegedly forged parking permits to get into the employee lot where TSA employees aren't allowed to park. In fact, TSA employees at LAX have to park on 98th street.

2. Some TSA employees at LAX smoked joints at a party while off-duty. (Yes, the story said, "drugs," but if there were harder drugs used you would have heard about it.)

3. Some TSA employees were tested for trace amounts of marijuana metabolites and were then summarily fired if they were found.

4. Nothing in the story suggests that any TSA employee reported for work while intoxicated, unless you buy into the Reagan-era notion that a microgram of pot in your pee-pee constitutes impairment.

5. Any other public employees would have been placed on administrative leave and given the opportunity to contest the charges, or to go rehab.