Report: One in Four Fake Weapons Get Past Screeners

TBO ^ | The Associated Press

[Movemout]

ARLINGTON, VA.(AP) - Screeners at 32 of the nation's largest airports failed to detect fake weapons in 24 percent of undercover tests by the Transportation Security Administration last month, USA Today reported.

Citing documents it obtained, the paper said the tests, the first since the agency started overseeing checkpoint screening in February, were done by agents who did little to try to conceal the items as they passed through checkpoints.

It said screeners at Cincinnati, Jacksonville and Las Vegas failed to detect fake weapons in at least half of the tests. At Los Angeles International Airport, there was a 41 percent failure rate, the paper said in Monday's editions.

AP-ES-07-01-02 0323EDT

[Movemout]

Nah! We don't need armed pilots or passengers.

[Boonie Rat]

Now that they are "govermnent workers" they are not answerable. We can expect less for more until we will be forced to hire more to deliver less for more until ....

Boonie Rat

MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66

[Movemout]

You're right. The only thing that changed when we federalized the screeners is that we can no longer hold slackers accountable.

[mgc1122]

Maybe we should "professionalize" em again ...