DHS OIG doing another round of covert testing
Feb 8, 2017, 3:53 pm
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Covert testing is constantly being conducted by a variety of entities in a variety of ways: the DHS-IG, by FSDs, an Airport's Security Director, Airport Police, and TSA Offices of Inspection; from time to time, even the Feebs participate.
Mentioning it is happening is of no consequence but cooking the books by stating when and where is.
Mentioning it is happening is of no consequence but cooking the books by stating when and where is.
Feb 9, 2017, 5:30 pm
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Covert testing is constantly being conducted by a variety of entities in a variety of ways: the DHS-IG, by FSDs, an Airport's Security Director, Airport Police, and TSA Offices of Inspection; from time to time, even the Feebs participate.
Mentioning it is happening is of no consequence but cooking the books by stating when and where is.
Mentioning it is happening is of no consequence but cooking the books by stating when and where is.
Feb 10, 2017, 1:03 pm
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For the same reasons persons are regularly able to enter the White House complex without authorization....very complex systems tend to have failures. And when was the last time you heard of an auditor reporting, "everything was great, no problems here at all"?
Feb 10, 2017, 1:15 pm
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For $8,000,000,000.00 annuallyTSA should be pretty darn good but that's not what the taxpayers are getting.
Feb 10, 2017, 1:54 pm
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True. but in a corollary, for the 50 times that amount (net) that the taxpayers spend annually on Medicare one might argue that the covered populace should be a whole lot healthier (or at least receiving better care and outcomes.....)
Feb 10, 2017, 3:48 pm
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As always, YMMV.
Feb 10, 2017, 5:42 pm
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Are you really going to compare Medicare with TSA. If TSA ran Medicare we'd all be dead!
Feb 10, 2017, 7:25 pm
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And, yes, I have been involved in multiple IG audits of very complex systems where there were no significant findings and recommendations. It can be done, but the TSA has neither the competence nor the desire to improve. The basic issue is that nobody in the entire DHS is a stakeholder in the success of civil aviation.
The TSA fails regularly at the level of high school physics (laws of electrical and magnetic fields).