Cenk Uygur
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TSA Catches More Whistleblowers Than Terrorists
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April 30, 2016
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4:04Now PlayingObviously we rely on the TSA to protect us at airports. With most tests showing a 95% fail rate of finding weapons and contraband, they haven't been doing a good job. Now we're finding out that the agency is developing a troubling culture of looking the other way at security threats, waste, fraud and abuse. The whistle-blower protections, in reality, are apparently slim to none. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (ThinkTank), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A testimony by TSA whistleblowers before a Senate panel says that the agency is suffering from low morale and a culture of “fear and distrust.” It also mentioned that accelerated screening clearances are handed out like “Halloween candy.”
The testimony on Tuesday morning came a day after a leaked report said the agency had failed to identify 73 active workers who had links to terrorism.
Rebecca Roering, an assistant federal security director for the Transport Security Administration (TSA) at Minneapolis-St Paul, told Senate lawmakers that officers are not valued by the leadership and were under a great deal of scrutiny.
“The TSA has hired into leadership positions a number of former airline executives and others who place more emphasis on customer service and passenger wait times then on security and detection rates. Any wait time deemed excessive requires immediate reporting and analysis and corrective action,” said Roering.
Roering said the same attention didn’t apply when testing local officers for their ability to check for weapons or explosives and was “not associated with any performance metric.”"*
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