TSA workers face dismissal over baggage screening

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Source: The Washington Post

The Transportation Security Administration is moving to fire more than 30 of its security personnel at Hawaii’s Honolulu International Airport after the discovery late last year that they were not properly screening checked bags for bombs, the TSA said Friday.

A dozen more TSA workers face suspension, the TSA said. Those slated for firing included workers responsible for the actual screening, several supervisors and the federal security director for the Honolulu airport, the TSA said.

“TSA holds its workforce to the highest ethical standards and we will not tolerate employees who in any way compromise the security of the traveling public,” TSA Administrator John Pistole said in a statement announcing the actions.

The workers reportedly came under investigation after two TSA workers complained to their supervisors that colleagues were not screening checked luggage being loaded aboard flights in a section of the airport that serves Qantas, WestJet, Philippine Airlines, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Alaska Air, Air Pacific, All Nippon Airways, Delta Airlines, China Airlines, Air Pacific and Jetstar Airways.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/tsa-workers-face-dismissal-over-baggage-screening/2011/06/10/AGpBxLPH_story.html

[obxhead]

1. TSA and ethical do not belong in the same sentence. nt

[Dutchmaster]

2. I bet everyone got a nice cavity search though.

[primavera]

14. Now, now...

... they only do the cavity searches on likely terrorists, you know, young, attractive women with athletic builds and ample breasts.

[grahamhgreen]

3. The whole "security state" apparatus is absurd, a scam, and should be dismantled.

[Scuba]

11. Bingo. If we accomplished the impossible...

...and made airports/air travel 100% safe that means we would have protected a tiny fraction of our "targets".



Scaring the Poeple, further enriching the MIC.

[No Elephants]

12. +1

[jerseyjack]

4. Sommabitch. You mean bags weren't checked and nothin' happened?

[high density]

5. And yet no planes esploded.

Amazing.

[Yupster]

8. The TSA has to be the biggest waste of money

since the Pyramids were built. Tens of thousands of people accomplishing nothiong.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. That's not true.

The Pyramids provided an excellent backdrop for Aida.

[williesgirl]

6. So this happened "late last year" and they're just now going to let them go? We get radiated, stri

searched, groped and they don't even check bags for explosives? This is more than nuts, it's criminal. My guess is it's not the only airport with this issue.

[No Elephants]

13. +1

[Scottybeamer70]

7. I guess they couldn't multi-task.........

would be difficult to search for bombs if you're more interested
in what you can steal from someone's luggage....
"highest ethical standards"............as compared to what.....?

[Lugnut]

9. The TSA is a big bad joke on us all.

"Highest ethical standards", my butt.