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oskar576

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Posted: 12/17/10 4:42 am • # 1

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Gaping Holes in Airline Security: Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA Screeners
Secret Tests At LAX, O'Hare, Newark Show TSA Screeners Missed Guns, Bombs
By MATTHEW MOSK, ANGELA HILL and TIMOTHY FLEMING
Dec. 16, 2010

Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight.
He didn't realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose "baby" Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the belt and was x-rayed. When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston.

"It's just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun," Seif told ABC News. "How can you miss it? You cannot miss it."

But the TSA did miss it, and despite what most people believe about the painstaking effort to screen airline passengers and their luggage before they enter the terminal, it was not that unusual.

Experts tell ABC News that every year since the September 11 terror attacks, federal agencies have conducted random, covert "red team tests," where undercover agents try to see just how much they can get past security checks at major U.S. airports. And while the Department of Homeland Security closely guards the results as classified, those that have leaked in media reports have been shocking.

According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles's LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago's O'Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Blo...d-gun....ory?id=12412458

Now really.
Is this about "security" or is it about controlling the people a little bit more every day and getting them used to flagrant violations of their rights?

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roseanne

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Posted: 12/17/10 5:11 am • # 2

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Almost every freaking test run they have done with TSA in the last 9 years has failed to detect all sorts of weapons, chemicals, bombs etc. Everyone ignores that because it's not put on the front page if it makes it to the news at all. Most of the time they don't publicize their tests or results.
Does that make me feel more afraid. Nope. The terrorists do not need to commit large scale operations anymore. They've accomplished what they wanted and the US (and others) have spent billions of dollars proving it.

I have always wondered if the few people caught in the last few years didn't get caught on purpose. Negative reinforcement to keep the fear level elevated.

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laffinalltheway

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Posted: 12/17/10 5:11 am • # 3

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I heard recently that some bus or rail lines are starting to do random bag searches. Way to make people go back to driving their own cars and clogging up the highways (and increasing air pollution).

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laffinalltheway

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Posted: 12/17/10 5:12 am • # 4

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macroscopic

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Posted: 12/17/10 5:24 am • # 5