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Inspections' covert testing teams are made up professional security specialists while OIG's covert testing team is/was made up of regular everyday folks (accountants, lia-, um, lawyers, mgmt. analysts, etc.) who were given some training and guidance for the their tests by the specialists from Inspections.
OIG's staff and inspectors mostly all have degrees in some professional discipline whereas TSA's inspection team members could be made up of TSO's who have moved up through the organization but may have little advanced education? I would think either group could conduct good inspections giving the nod to the OIG's team for diving into policies and seeing if required elements are being met. Regardless if memory serves me correctly both OIG and internal inspections showed TSA to do a poor job of screening.