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ABC News Outs TSA “Security”

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img srchttpwww.personalliberty.comwpcontentthemesredesignimagestsaimage.jpg altABC News Outs TSA Security hspace5 vspace5 alignright Now we know why the Transportation Security Administration has increased its totalitarian search procedures on airline passengers. Its tired of being embarrassed by its own incompetence.Last week, emABC Newsem reported that a business traveler named Farid Seif passed through security at Houston International Airport with a loaded .40 caliber Glock handgun in his computer bag. Seif says he forgot it was there and only discovered it after he arrived at his hotel.The report by emABC Newsem also contained this little tidbit Since 911, 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 United States airports. While the Department of Homeland Security guards the results of these tests as classified, some have been leaked to the media.emABC Newsem called the results shocking. But its not really, not to anyone who understands how government works.According to one report, on one day in 2006 TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times at a Newark airport terminal. A report from 2007 leaked to emUSA Todayem revealed that undercover agents were successful in slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles LAX airport in 50 out of 70 tries, and at Chicagos OHare 45 out of 75 times.Despite the results, there is no sign that the numbers have changed as the screeners have been tested year after year, former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin told emABC Newsem.TSA Chief John Pistole told emABC Newsem that the poor performance during the undercover tests helped to convince him that airport screening needed to be much tougher.Now we understand. TSA agents know there are no real terrorists trying to slip past security. The ones regularly cited as prime examples of what TSA is looking forshoe bomber Richard Reid and underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallabwere allowed by the state security apparatus to board their respective flights. But you never can tell when one of those crafty undercover agents might be using a bluehaired old lady or some 6yearold kid to slip explosives through screening.All kidding aside its patently obvious this story by the corporate media is designed to scare the sheeple into submitting to increasingly onerous searches, groping and harmful radiation scans in order to feel more secure.