Originally Posted by
clrankin
Stories like this should cause the flying public to start asking themselves and their legislators why they should trust the TSA with their safety, when the organization apparently can't even find people who are honest enough to not steal a few hundred dollars. If someone is willing to risk their job and reputation to illegally obtain this amount of money, what makes TSA (or anybody else) think that the person can't be bribed with a few thousand dollars to allow a weapon or other prohibited item into the "sterile" area?
Funny thing is that it probably has already happened where a TSA employee sold out for some tax-free cash by just looking the other way. They just haven't been caught at it yet. When they do catch them the usual suspects will claim that that TSO was a statistical aberration, a bad apple, (fill in the blank) and not representative of TSA as a whole.