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Posted on 02/04/2016 1:35:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Government oversight officials informed Congress on Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration continues to operate in disarray, failing to record basic security details for thousands of employees and not tracking official IDs and badges that allow access to the most sensitive areas of an airport.
Lawmakers described the security agency as operating "in chaos" and expressed frustration with Obama administration officials as they informed the House Oversight Committee about a range of security shortfalls that continue to endanger the nation's 450 commercial airports.
TSA's inability to properly screen and track employees has been well documented for years. However, the administration has failed to enact multiple reforms aimed at tightening security and making it more efficient, lawmakers said.
TSA still cannot verify their employees' criminal histories and immigration statuses, according to disclosures made by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general.
"Even 15 years" since the 9/11 terror attacks, "we still see a system that has not complied with the laws we have passed multiple times … and we see failures," said Rep. John Mica (R., Fla.), chair of the House Transportation Subcommittee.
Following the discovery last year of 73 aviation employees who also were listed on the nation's terror watch list, TSA has struggled to implement reforms aimed to remedy these security gaps, Mica said.
"TSA employees are not properly vetted," he said. "We've found that tens of thousands of incomplete records are even lacking full names. They [TSA] had 14,000 immigrants listed in the database that did not have alien registration numbers and 75,000 of these records lacked passport numbers. This is not acceptable."
Officials additionally could not account for "hundreds and thousands of IDs" that had gone missing, including TSA security badges, airport identity badges, and officer identification.
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TSA = Theatrical Security Agency
By federalizing TSA we will get a professional security force.
Yeah, right. What we got was yet another SEIU Democratic cash donation machine.
The TSA has become a criminal enterprise like everything the democRATS touch.
TRANSLATION: TSA officials admit to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Once you see whose side the our government is on....it all makes sense.
Fundamental Transformation..
At DFW you’ll see TSA agents wearing hijabs. Think about that for a minute..
I feel safer already!
Just another gubermint fuster cluk.
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Reason #365 why I won’t fly.
Do background checks and issue redesigned badges and identifications after all back up paperwork has been verified as legitimate. They can do this by "shift" at every airport across the USA, some times of travel may suffer, but heck, flying already sucks...
the democrat party is a criminal enterprise
TSA is a conduit for distributing the loot
TSA, like hillary, has no real regard for security
You have to federalize, to professionalize. IIRC, that was Susan Collins, from the floor of the Senate.
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Lots of privately employed workers at small, locally owned businesses are more vetted than these thugs working for the TSA.
The people responsible should be fired or in prison. NO slaps on the hand. Examples should be made.
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