Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
This isn't news to any of us on TS&S with half a brain (which includes everyone except me...) .
You never hear a word from Neffy or anyone else in the TSA about this. You wonder how many TSA clerks are involved in drug trafficking at airports...
Let me assert up front that none of this has anything to do with civil aviation security. I will also assert that a baggage handler or TSA clerk would knowingly allow drugs through a checkpoint but not a terrorist bomb for these reasons:
- Transit of drugs through an airport is not terrorism-related, so it's OK as a second income source
- Druggies would never blow up an airplane in which they were transporting drugs worth multi-millions on the street.
- The average TSA clerk's morals won't allow a bomb through their checkpoint, but drugs are OK.
As far as terrorism is concerned, drug trafficking doesn't matter, except that it is an embarrassment to the TSA that they will exact on passengers
Commenting about the highlighted statement above.
This has everything to do with commercial aviation security.
The ability to introduce any form of contraband to the sterile area demonstrates a critical weakness in security screening process that remains unaddressed by TSA. While I agree that illegal drugs are not a direct threat who is to say that supposed package of drugs isn't something that is a direct threat? The problem is that TSA's refusal to screen all airport workers leaves open the question of just what materials are being introduced and loaded on commercial aircraft. Drugs today bombs tomorrow.