and the costs should be borne by teh[sic] airlines, as it used to be. Airlines bear the cost? Boy are you naive.
Posted on 02/06/2004 6:53:14 AM PST by Cubs Fan
February 6, 2004
Report Faults Lax Controls on Screeners at Airports
By PHILIP SHENON
ASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — An internal investigation at the Homeland Security Department has found that hiring of tens of thousands of airport screeners after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was so haphazard that many screeners were allowed to remain on duty at security checkpoints for weeks or months after it had been determined that they had serious criminal records.
The department's inspector general issued a report on the findings on Thursday. It said screeners remained on the payroll and retained their badges even after the findings that they had been convicted on charges as serious as manslaughter. The department often took weeks or months to discharge the screeners, the report found.
"Screeners were hired, trained and, in some cases, put to work contrary to sound personnel practices," the inspector general, Clark Kent Ervin, said in the report. "We identified many issues that undermined the creation of a federal screener staff that can ensure the security of commercial air transportation."
Now we have more expensive screeners that are just as lax if not more so.
But of course W just had to sign that bill, he had to, don't know why, but he had to.
The TSA is nothing but a make-work program for people who used to be on welfare.
No, the creation of the TSA was a firm act by President Bush to make our skies safer. It isn't perfect, but it is far better than what we had before.
If you feel the need to bash the actions of the President, perhaps you should be spending your time elsewhere.
And why in heck would anyone believe that?
--For some reason many folks who call themselves "conservative" look for every and anyopportunity to bash the President.---
a conservative is not a blind sheep who sees the R after someone's name and decides they're good guys no matter what they do.
No, we only bash him when he does LIBERAL things. which is entirely consistent with being conservative.
I noticed your page has links to Hannity and Limbaugh. As I recall, they criticized Bush for sigining this too. Should they also "spend their time elsewhere?"
Using the logic that only federal employees can screen passengers, we may as well nationalize/federalize the rest of the aviation industry as well.
How can mere civilians design/build aircraft, how can civilians train pilots, how can civilian pilots be trusted to fly airplanes, how can civilian mechanics maintain aircraft, how can civilians run airports, how can civilians sell tickets and check-in passengers -- if we NEED TSA then we NEED the feds to do everything else too.
After the airlines, then we can nationalize the rest of the transportation sector, then who knows what's next ??
Hitlery is already working on nationalized health care.
The sky is the limit.
It was an irrational act of tyranny.
Rather than federalize the inspectors, a more rational move would've been to hold accountable those bureaucrats at the FAA and DOT who failed to do their jobs to develop and enforce prudent security measures at commercial airports across America.
Sadly, airports are no safer today than they were on 9-10.
We have a lot larger bureaucracy costing a lot more money -- but, they are no safer.
Anyone who tells you it is, is either grossly misinformed - or they are lying.
Anyone who is at TSA, Homeland Security, DOT or the FAA who claims airports are safer most probably is lying - or they've succumbed to the propaganda designed to create a smokescreen.
No, it's not. If you feel the need to bash the actions of the President, perhaps you should be spending your time
I did not bash the President. I bashed the TSA.
Twisting the truth is an ugly thing to do. Only ugly people do it.
The TSA was created by an act of the Congress and was signed into law by the President. I consider his firm and strong action to fix many of the Clinton-era saftey and security laxes as something to commend, not something to criticize.
By ridiculing the actions of this President you are empowering his enemies, perhaps that is your intent?
and the costs should be borne by teh[sic] airlines, as it used to be. Airlines bear the cost? Boy are you naive.
How is it liberal to make air travel safer?
Silly me, I thought that improving the security of the United States against terrorist threats was a "Conservative" principle.
There have been no stronger supporters of the President's reelection that Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
That's something Herman Goebels would have said of Adolf Hitler.
That's a pretty childish accusation. Are you what they call a "DU Troll"?
Right, but it's better the people flying pay than all taxpayers.
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