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IG report: TSA failed to identify 73 workers 'linked to terrorism'
Fox News ^ | June 8, 2008

Posted on 06/08/2015 1:18:16 PM PDT by Zakeet

On the heels of Transportation Security Administration workers flunking a security test at airport checkpoints, the results of a new audit show that -- while the agency keeps a robust system for screening commercial airport workers -- it still failed to flag 73 airport workers "linked to terrorism."

Apparently, TSA does not have access to all the terror watchlist information it needs to make those judgments.

“The TSA did not identify these individuals through its vetting operations because it is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related categories under current interagency watch-listing policy,” the June 4 Inspector General report stated.

According to TSA data, the people in question were working for major airlines, airport venders and other employers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: georgebush; terrorism; tsa; tsascandals; tsauseless; waronterror

That's no problem ... so long as the idiots don't profile Muzzies!

1 posted on 06/08/2015 1:18:16 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Whya are we spending billions on TSA? They (1) can’t find bombs and (2) hassle innoncent people all day long.


2 posted on 06/08/2015 1:19:33 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Fido969

This headline should come as no surprise to anyone who travels via America’s airports. Denver, Minneapolis, Dallas, etc., all appear to be employers of dozens of Somali refugees.


3 posted on 06/08/2015 1:21:56 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Zakeet

It’s been suggested many times that the security be returned to where it really belongs: the airlines and the airports themselves.

All the excuses no longer hold any water and this is just the latest of many TSA debacles.

Some presidential candidates talk about abolishing certain alphabet agencies, maybe the TSA should be at/near top of the list.


4 posted on 06/08/2015 1:24:36 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Zakeet
.... The TSA is nothing more than an expensive production of Security Theater to give the public the illusion that something is actually being done to protect air passengers.

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5 posted on 06/08/2015 1:29:11 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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Been sayin' it all along...

Terrorists

Search

Americans

6 posted on 06/08/2015 1:32:13 PM PDT by Regulator
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The Stupid Agency is an object lesson in the science of Government Boondoggles.

Disband it and spend the money on something useful; or, better yet, refund the money to the taxpayers who actually earned it.


7 posted on 06/08/2015 1:37:42 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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So the terrorists are watching the terrorists. What a joke on the American people.

I'm surprised that we haven't had a major terrorist incident at the airports. They must be waiting for their fellow Muzzie to leave the Whitehouse before they begin their reign of terror. By then everything will be in-place.

8 posted on 06/08/2015 1:42:05 PM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: Fido969

Why?

Because George Bush created two new agencies to duplicate the responsibilities already tasked to the coast guard and the CIA. So instead of military trained personnel performing these tasks (as was done during WWII, Korea, and the early stages of the Vietnam War...we have the equivalent of mall cops.

This one actually is “Bush’s fault.”


9 posted on 06/08/2015 1:42:19 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Zakeet

Your picture tells the story.


10 posted on 06/08/2015 1:43:44 PM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: Zakeet
“The TSA did not identify these individuals through its vetting operations because it is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related categories under current interagency watch-listing policy,” the June 4 Inspector General report stated.

The Gorelick Wall strikes again.

THE WALL OF SEPARATION BETWEEN LAW-ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE

"In 1995, while America’s intelligence agencies were still investigating al Qaeda's 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, the Clinton administration strengthened FISA to a degree that was unprecedented. Specifically, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick called for increased restrictions on information-sharing between intelligence (CIA) and law-enforcement (FBI) agencies. In a 1995 memo to then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, titled “Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations,” Gorelick wrote the following:"
11 posted on 06/08/2015 1:48:28 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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That’s OK

in lou of, they sexually accosted me, an old white American woman..

See, it worked..no attacks by terrorists..


12 posted on 06/08/2015 2:26:35 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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The TSA. Where failure isn’t an option. It’s a requirement.


13 posted on 06/08/2015 3:20:48 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Didn’t they arrest a guy from MN for trying to go fight for ISIS who was a baggage handler at the airport there?


14 posted on 06/08/2015 3:40:25 PM PDT by Chainsawj (Killing is my business and business is good.)
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