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Originally Posted by Global_Hi_Flyer
(Post 15722335)
Guess what: TSA does the same background checks on themselves.
It would not take too much for someone affiliated with a terrorist group to pass the TSA background check & end up in a position of power. Heck, there's nothing that would stop a TSA screener from bringing a gun on premises & unloading on the folks queued up in line waiting for screening. Or an IED. But that hasn't happened (save for the guy in Denver that brought a gun to work) - and it's highly unlikely to happen with registered travelers. Heck, the TSA has even hired convicted felons - folks that would not be able to pass a registered traveler background check. |
Originally Posted by gobluetwo
(Post 15722555)
how easy are you saying it is for someone affiliated with a terrorist group (or a convicted felon, for that matter) to pass the background check?
How much easier do you think it should be? |
Originally Posted by Caradoc
(Post 15722613)
In 2009, a dozen illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico passed the TSA's so-called "background checks" to be granted "trusted agent" access badges to operational areas at Stewart International Airport.
How much easier do you think it should be? http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/20...ork-ny-airport Still, anyone know what the background check entails (or should entail, were it carried it properly)? |
Originally Posted by gobluetwo
(Post 15723329)
Not saying it should be "easier", wondering about standards.
From all evidence, the TSA doesn't seem to actually have standards. They've issued "trusted agent" passes to illegal aliens, regularly hire thieves, rapists, and child molesters, lie to the public on a regular basis, fail to train their personnel, insist that airports grant access to convicted felons that the TSA has hired... where should we begin to expect "standards" from them? |
Originally Posted by gobluetwo
(Post 15723329)
Still, anyone know what the background check entails (or should entail, were it carried it properly)?
http://www.tsa.gov/press/speeches/as...able_0393.shtm If one is not on any of the "lists", then one is eligible for hire. There is no reason that a traveler - particularly one that has undergone numerous federal background checks to a much higher level than TSA - can't be considered *at least* as low a risk as a TSA employee. |
It sounds like this was a stupid test all the way around.
Sure, they got an unaccompanied "package" checked as baggage by paying a bribe. But said unaccompanied package was screened, presumably with CTX, and cleared. Like all checked bags. On the other hand, a shipper could walk up to the cargo side of the airport, not even pay a bribe, and get the unaccompanied package on the same aircraft, possibly with no screening whatsoever if they have gone through the "trusted shipper" process. Until the cargo screening problem is 100% fixed, doing these sorts of tests on the passenger/baggage side is pointless. |
Originally Posted by gobluetwo
(Post 15723329)
Not saying it should be "easier", wondering about standards. Interesting about the illegal aliens, hadn't heard about that. Not terribly reassuring...
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/20...ork-ny-airport Still, anyone know what the background check entails (or should entail, were it carried it properly)? http://www2.wsls.com/news/2010/feb/0...ear-ar-371878/ TSA orders Richmond airport to give security clearance to felon By Peter Bacque Richmond Times-Dispatch Published: February 04, 2010 |
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