This is really remarkable. We’re supposed to go through porno strip machines at the airport so the bureaucrats can detect firearms. Yet the Keystone Cops at the TSA in Dallas failed when an undercover agent tested their awareness by hiding a gun in her undergarments. They didn’t just fail. They. Failed. Every. Single. Time.
Check out this local news report, including a video at the link.
An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners, according to a high-ranking, inside source at the Transportation Security Administration. The source said the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she put the body scanners to the test. The officer successfully made it through the airport’s body scanners every time she tried, the source said. “In this case, where they had a test, and it was just a dismal failure as I’m told,” said Larry Wansley, former head of security at American Airlines. “As I’ve heard (it), you got a problem, especially with a fire arm.”
This story worries me. But not because a terrorist might smuggle a gun on board. Passengers are now the most effective line of defense against hijacking, along with hardened cockpit doors and armed pilots.
But I am worried that the TSA might over-react, demand more intensive scrutiny, and cause airport security lines to become even slower.
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She must not have been ‘hot’ enough to warrant the screen viewers’ full attention.
Maybe now they will start groping children AFTER the airplane flight as well. That’s what they’re now doing at your local train station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1B3AubsTBo&feature=player_embedded
Yep; I have the same concern, Dan. God only knows what they’ll do to us NOW before we get on the plane. But all I can say is they better buy me dinner first!!!