Confessions of a TSA agent...

[MR2]

Well duh!

Confessions of a TSA Agent

It is perhaps America’s most unsafe airport. Despite being the launching point for one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 — Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania — Newark Airport has had numerous security violations since. The latest: a fake bomb that made it past Transportation Security Administration officers. Here, a Newark TSA screener who recently left the agency tells how silly policies and lazy workers do little to stop real threats:

A LOT of what we do is make-believe.

[SF_BHT]

Purge the whole agency and fill it with vets getting out of the military. Have standards like PT, proper background checks. Oh do ot need to do it as they are in the service and have them. All should have a clearance. Guess what they will have it coming from the service. Supervisors have to be former NCO's or x-years of service and pass a written test and board just like e military. You will get more professional and capable work force.

Just a thought...

[cbtengr]

Originally Posted by SF_BHT

Purge the whole agency and fill it with vets getting out of the military. Have standards like PT, proper background checks. Oh do ot need to do it as they are in the service and have them. All should have a clearance. Guess what they will have it coming from the service. Supervisors have to be former NCO's or x-years of service and pass a written test and board just like e military. You will get more professional and capable work force.

Just a thought...

Another good idea from a member of this board that we can all get behind, trouble is that it makes too much sense.

[medic&commo]

Current administration / legislators would never go for giving vets any responsibility because we ALL have that NEW thing called PTSD.
m&c

[Streck-Fu]

Originally Posted by SF_BHT

Purge the whole agency .....

I was thinking abolish completely.

Get the federal government out of the passenger airline security business altogether. Return it to the airports and airlines.
Even if competently run, it still security theater.