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Judicial Watch Weekly Update: A Massive Hole in TSA Security
Judicial Watch ^ | July 15, 2019

Posted on 07/15/2019 12:57:30 PM PDT by OfficialJudicialWatch

Next time you’re waiting in your socks as your luggage is rifled through by security at the TSA checkpoint, you might reflect on how unchecked people and vehicles are getting through security in other parts of the airport. Our Corruption Chronicles blog exposes the disturbing facts.

The massive agency created after 9/11 to protect the nation risks security at U.S. airports by letting airlines impose expedited measures to keep traffic flowing, according to government officials interviewed by Judicial Watch. “The airlines call the shots,” said a veteran federal agent who has worked at one of the nation’s largest airports as well as the Mexican and Canadian border. “It’s all about facilitating traffic, moving people. Airlines have incredible power at airports and they dictate how Customs and Border Protection (CPB) entry/exit inspection agents do their job.” In fact, airline employees are allowed in the inspections/customs area for incoming passengers specifically to monitor wait times and file complaints with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which caters to them.

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1 posted on 07/15/2019 12:57:30 PM PDT by OfficialJudicialWatch
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Wasn’t there a movie some years ago with this as a plot device???


2 posted on 07/15/2019 1:05:04 PM PDT by Mack the knife
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To: Mack the knife
Wasn’t there a movie some years ago with this as a plot device???

The guy in Casino Royale who was able to impersonate a tarmac worker to hijack a fuel truck to blow up a brand new plane. Thankfully James Bond was able to stop him.

3 posted on 07/15/2019 1:08:06 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

There’s a lot of holes in TSA. Unfortunately they wear badges.


4 posted on 07/15/2019 1:16:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Mack the knife
Most of us know that the TSA adds almost nothing to airline security. They are there for theater (and government paychecks) and little else.

I've noticed most of them are teams of 3-4. One of them says little or noting and usually just watches the scanner screen carefully. The others paw through luggage and prod the cattle through the chutes. The screen watcher is usually the brains of the outfit; the others are there for show (and paychecks).

They could be just as effective with half the number of people (or less), but then we wouldn't have the theatre and they wouldn't have the paychecks.

5 posted on 07/15/2019 1:17:53 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: OfficialJudicialWatch

My uncle used to work for the Dept of Agriculture at Kennedy Airport. Shortly after 9/11, all of the federal agency employees were called into meetings about security. After the presentation about how they were going to screen passengers, my uncle asked how they were going to screen airport employees and contractors that had pretty much unfettered access to the planes.

He said that the response was like Ralph Cramden: Hamina, hamina, hamina.... Then someone else told the folks there to “not worry about that, it is being taken care of.” IOW, “we have top men taking care of this. Top. Men.”

This TSA shit is ALL for show for the sheeple, and to get them even more used to following orders.


6 posted on 07/15/2019 1:19:19 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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It’s not about protecting us from terrorism. It about programming us to do unnatural things unquestioningly on government command.


7 posted on 07/15/2019 1:50:54 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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It’s not about protecting us from terrorism. It about programming us to do unnatural things unquestioningly on government command.

God, I hope not. I think it is just typical Government bungling.
8 posted on 07/15/2019 2:08:39 PM PDT by olepap
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