[larry h]

I work for the TSA and those who were read the questions and answers were a handful of welfare mothers forced on the TSA by the combined efforts of Sheila Jackson Lee and Maxine Waters. There weren't many, maybe a 100-150 nation wide (more than a 1,000 applied but only a small percentage
got past the credit bureau and job references check). Of this group, nine months later, there are only 9 left where I work. The rest quit as baggage screening can be quite physical work. Airlines now allow bags (and many foot lockers) to go in the belly of planes that would have been grossly overweight in the past...and they charge a hefty
price for it. The ones that work with me perform ok,
although three are pregnant and basically forbidden
to do much of anything, other than show up and sleep a good part of the day....

[goody2shooz]

Heavy luggage is one thing we never encountered at nukies. Truckloads of building materials and tankers of nitrogen twice a week.

Did have someone, an facility employee much too clever for his own good, bring through a vacuum can of ground coffee with a plastic lid on the bottom that hid contraband. It looked to be sealed. It wasn't.

The bottom had been opened and small caliber gun placed inside with ground coffee all around it. It cleared the machine but before I could unlock the door to the facility he dropped the can, the plastic lid popped off and all the ground coffee along with the gun emptied onto to the floor.

The guy was fired, no surprise there.

[4Freedom]

"Seattle-based Advanced Interactive Systems trained a total of 21,500 Screeners..."

I would bet they read those test questions and answers to every single one of the 21,500 Screeners they trained. What would make you believe they only read the 'Final Exam' questions to the 'Welfare' mothers?

Some applicants still failed the test!!!

I'm not casting any aspersions on your own academic credentials, but the TSA didn't require an applicant have a high school diploma or even a GED!

A 6th grade drop-out with 1 year of working as a security guard could apply and would generally be accepted, if they were from the right 'targeted' minority group.

I'll bet a lot of these applicants were coached through the assessment examination as well.

The 'fix' was in on this whole selection process from the beginning.

Why do you believe the TSA won't tell anyone their scores on any of the tests they take?