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Anybody out there in TSA land will tell you that you're on the line while you get your background checked. Obviously a prelim is done but it may take six weeks for a full one. As with air marshals they can't keep these guys on board.
This episode got funny press. Wait til the one that causes lives. I love the one where the screeners forgot to turn on the metal detector on and just let passengers through! Move along.

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Or the one TSA made a mother (with child) drink her own breast milk to determine it wasn't [insert menacing liquid here]. My hindsight is on which scares me to death what is going on now. Screeners had absolutely no SOP's (IMO before TSA)to deal with customers. They [US treasury]couldn't pay those guys and people had mortgages and bills to pay that the Admiral had to personally vouch for future payment. That's inside stuff. /rant