[Liz]

"Jerry Thoman", AKA Nigerian native Abimbola Olumuyiwa Oyewole, 54, used multiple identities.

[stormhill]

Let's see now.
The same agency that gropes me, forces off my shoes and goes through my luggage...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I have to believe TSA is willfully blind to ignore the overwhelming number of Africans and Arabs who have taken jobs at our nation’s airports.

Minneapolis, Phily, Chicago, Denver, etc., can’t sell a newspaper or stick of gum without some foreign language chatterer being involved.

Glad I’m retired from air travel.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Those Nigerian 419ers are a sneaky bunch!

[Former Proud Canadian]

Let the airlines take care of their own security. Let them discriminate and ban whoever they want.

While we're at it, issue guns and stun guns to the flight crew.

I don't think you can fix any of the alphabet agencies.

[Thommas]

We need to know why the PA upper echelon kept promoting Oyewole, why he passed crucial PA security checks, and why the PA gave the imposter access to security areas?

I would say, but common sense holds my tongue, that Oyewole had the same scrutiny into his background as the Resident in Chief. Now what do these gentlemen have in common?

The haul was worth about $500,000 on the street when sold to "impoverished illegals."

We all know that "illegals" is a cruel pejorative for hard working victims of America chauvinism. These situations arise from undocumented, but willing to be documented at any cost, taxpayers. This rant could protract into pages of diatribe, but why bother? In a few months, this item will be scrubbed from the citizen conscience and archives. We will then be herded into the voting booths to vote for Mittens or an unvetted Kenyan.

[Roccus]

I’d be interested in what this clown knows about the fifth hijack team that “melted into the crowd” after their plane returned to the gate at Newark and was emptied on 9/11/01.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

...Oyewole was hired before the TSA existed, the controversial federal agency said, noting that that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey checked and cleared Oyewole's credentials when hiring and promoting him....

...Jerry Thomas — a 41-year-old career criminal with an arrest record dating to the 1960s...

More alarming is that the Port Authorities of both New York and New Jersey and the TSA thought nothing about hiring, and then promoting to a supervisory position, a career criminal with an arrest record dating back 40 years.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Where’s the link?

[Condor51]

It's insane how this guy could pass a background check using a dead career criminal's ID to work at Newark Intl airport. or ANY US airport.

For one background check I had to get (among many) for clearance for a project at Chi's O'Hare Airport, I had to go to the the FBI's main office in the Federal Building in downtown Chicago for fingerprinting, ID photo taken, and then wait (while my existing FBI file was being double checked) for the Picture ID badge to be issued to me. So how Nigerian 'Jerry Thomas' got clearance baffles me.

Plus, I'm sure that 'Jerry Thomas' must have had a 'slight accent' (/s) that should have been a teeny tipoff he wasn't who he claimed to be.

Oops... wait a sec ... that would be 'racial profiling' and 'discriminatory'. Forget I thought of that :-)

[ethel rascel]

E-Verify would have identified him as an impostor.

So would have a match with the Social Security Death Master.

Methinks the Port Authority doth protest too much.