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TSA failed to identify 73 workers “linked to terrorism”

Jun 8, 2015 3:20 pm By Robert Spencer

Muslim_Hijab-TSAWhat could possibly go wrong?

Any attempt to determine if these TSA employees had links to jihad terror groups would have been denounced as “Islamophobic” anyway.

“IG report: TSA failed to identify 73 workers ‘linked to terrorism,'” FoxNews.com, June 8, 2015:

On the heels of Transportation Security Administration workers flunking a security test at airport checkpoints, the results of a new audit show that — while the agency keeps a robust system for screening commercial airport workers — it still failed to flag 73 airport workers “linked to terrorism.”

Apparently, TSA does not have access to all the terror watchlist information it needs to make those judgments.

“The TSA did not identify these individuals through its vetting operations because it is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related categories under current interagency watch-listing policy,” the June 4 Inspector General report stated.

According to TSA data, the people in question were working for major airlines, airport venders and other employers.

The agency acknowledged that individuals in these categories “represented a potential transportation security threat,” according to the report….

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  1. Georg says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    It’s more likely they’ve been focused on, “the plight of Muslims in America” as Jeh Johnson described. We’ve really found ourselves in 5-alarm whacko land with this Administration. 2016 can’t come soon enough.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jun 8, 2015 at 7:26 pm

      If you’re talking about Jeh, the thinking about what a loss it was when Janet resigned. But she took her advanced management skills out west to take over the University of California system headquartered in Berkeley. Probably a smart move because it’s critical that the universities continue pumping out fresh inventory of inculcated highly educated globo-socialists to run our nation in the furture. Always plan ahead.

      Remember when she said our biggest threat of terror violence was returning disgruntled vets? Didn’t turn out that way at the Boston Marathon, nor in that food processing plant in Oklahoma when that not-a-disgruntled-war-vet-but-a-Moslem sawed off that poor woman’s head.

      • Georg says

        Jun 8, 2015 at 11:40 pm

        I had forgotten she said those things. Some truly bizarre wishful thinking. *smh*

    • Harry Martin says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 4:27 am

      Do you really believe that there will be any transfer of power in 2016 ?

      • Dee says

        Jun 9, 2015 at 10:11 am

        I sure hope there is a transfer of power. We can’t take anymore of this muzzy in the oval office. His goal was to take American down.

      • Georg says

        Jun 9, 2015 at 11:42 pm

        Yes and no. At this point, I’ll take just about anything over the Administration. But your point, that there isn’t a whole lot to look forward to, is well taken.

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    Apparently, TSA does not have access to all the terror watchlist information it needs to make those judgments.

    “The TSA did not identify these individuals through its vetting operations because it is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related categories under current interagency watch-listing policy,” the June 4 Inspector General report stated.

    The f***?

  3. miriamrove says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    The TSA is a joke to say the least. Last week or so the Red Team which a team at Home Land Security managed to walk is with fake bombs and guns to test the efficiency of the TSA and the TSA failed 95%! what a joke! mean while they tried denying me entry because I had my son’s dog tag on. M

  4. Xero_G says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    My government has assured me that ISIS, terrorism, violent Jihad, flying planes into towers, has NOTHING TO DO with Islam. Since “climate change” is the world’s most urgent threat, I am trusting the TSA to continue confiscating all those ozone-destroying cans of hairspray from traveler’s luggage.

    • More Ham Ed says

      Jun 8, 2015 at 4:49 pm

      Some pretty spot-on sarcasm.

  5. Thomas says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 4:40 pm

    How many of these were employed by TSA, itself?

  6. somehistory says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    Grief….would put *good* there, but this is far from any good. “Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right.”

    If they *don’t have the authority to receive and use all terror-related information* to make informed decisions about who to hire, why are they making the decisions?

    The beast is keeping people in the dark so it can advance its atrocities upon innocent people.

  7. Bezelel says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 4:54 pm

    I can’t imagine a screening process that is opposed to profiling.

  8. Wellington says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    The TSA is a farce for sundry reasons, but chief among these reasons is the fact that Muslims are not being profiled by the TSA. In fact, and this really brings home the absurdity of it all, were there no Muslims the TSA wouldn’t have been created in the first place, as it was back in November of 2001. Yes indeed, the Age of Nonsense marches on.

  9. David says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    “Any attempt to determine if these TSA employees had links to jihad terror groups would have been denounced as “Islamophobic” anyway.” So, why bother raising the issue? Let’s just continue as though nothing has changed.

    I wonder how many of the employees at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport have links or sympathies to terrorism. I would be surprised if you could shake a stick at all of them.

  10. mortimer says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 7:06 pm

    Lie detector testing should be universal for airport employees. There should be no more slip ups.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jun 8, 2015 at 7:30 pm

      Who you kidding, Mort? Moslems are natural born liars, raised from crib on Taquiyya.

      The common sense policy would be for the TSA to hire no Moslems, and quietly fire those they have now.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 12:26 pm

      While I sympathize with the feeling, lie detectors are not 100% reliable. Some people stay ice cold while speaking the biggest of lies, some people get stressed out even if they’re speaking the truth.

  11. David, Thailand says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    Did the TSA dismiss those workers, or pay them off with bundles of taxpayer money?

    Either way, since not all of these peacelovers will have been convicted of Jihad-related crimes I think the next stage is well pimped litigation against the TSA and other agencies that might have acted ‘improperly’ whilst trying to protect the USA and its people, many of which will be doing the flogging.

  12. JamesonRocks says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    Given the state of the TSA, I’m surprised the number is that low…

  13. afrostreetwise says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    Here in kenya, we have a very senior parliamentary worker under antiterrorism police investigation for suspicion of aiding a plot by alshabaab to attack parliament. Obviously no one, especially the MSM and government would mention the islam connection.
    Considering how our politicians bendbackwards to win the moslem vot, maybe a kaboom would have awaken them to reality.

    • Joseph says

      Jun 8, 2015 at 11:28 pm

      We had that “kaboom” on 9/11.
      AND THEY(politicians) STILL DON’T GET IT.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 1:12 am

      Surely the horrifying attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi should have woken *some* people up.

      Hang in there mate and keep on raising the alarm about Jihad with everyone you know. If you can manage it, get hold of Mr Spencer’s book “The Truth About Muhammad” and “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades” and “The Complete Infidels’ Guide to the Quran”, then photocopy the most telling passages and share them around as widely as you can.

      Barnabas Fund sells – very very cheaply – booklets about Sharia; any sensible person, reading it, would know that sharia is bad, bad news. So go to their website, buy lots of copies, and give one to every single Kenyan non-Muslim politician who can read English. Put one in your local library. Give copies to your church leaders.

      Three other books that all Kenyan Anglicans who know English should be reading are by an Australian Anglican priest, Rev Dr Mark Durie – “Which God?” (which sets out how and why the Biblical God is **different** from the ‘allah’ of Islam); “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom”; and “Liberty to the Captives”. The last one is intended as a practical, pastoral guide for Christians who are 1/ evangelising Msulims and discipling ex-Muslims who have become Christians, and 2/ deprogramming fellow Christians who have come under the ‘dhimma’ curse/ bondage. It would be great if someone could translate Dr Durie’s books into Swahili, so his message can spread widely.

      Of all the parts of the earth that have been assailed by Islam in the course of the past 1400 years, Africa has sustained the heaviest physical and spiritual and cultural toll. One guesstimate is that the total number of African Infidels dead as a result of Muslim jihad and Muslim slave-raiding and slave-trading and associated ruination over 1200 years (and counting) could be as high as 120 million.

      Right now, with the West currently confused and demoralised, I’m afraid African Christendom and the rest of Infidel (non-Muslim) Africa is going to have to go it alone against the Jihad; all I can say is, do your research on people like Charles Martel, Jan Sobieski, and Jean de Parisot de Valette and the Knights of Saint John of Malta, and make sure your young men and young women know those stories. Your churchmen should be studying what Saint Augustine had to say about Just War. Pacifism won’t work. Evangelism – turning Muslims into *ex*-Muslims – is great, but I don’t think it works fast enough to stop the Jihad. You do need deliberate, organised, intelligent self-defence. You need non-Muslim police and military who know what Jihad is and are prepared to fight to defeat it.

      It’s good to see you posting here. Send all your English-reading friends!

      If you’re Christian: PRAY for all of us in the West. Pray that our politicians and church leaders will *wake up* in time. And *we* will pray the same for *you*.

      PS – My heart goes out to all Kenyan non-Muslims whose loved ones were killed or injured in the jihad attack on the Westgate Mall, or who were killed or injured in *other* Muslim attacks on non-Muslims within Kenya in the past five-ten years. Deepest condolences.

      Don’t give up. Pray. Lobby. Educate. And if necessary, *fight*.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 8:37 am

      afrostreetwise says:

      ”Considering how our politicians bendbackwards to win the moslem vot, maybe a kaboom would have awaken them to reality.”

      I doubt it, afrostreetwise. 9/11, 7/7, Madrid, Mumbai, Beslan, Boston Marathon, the Kenyan Mall … the list goes on and on.

      The determination of politicians everywhere, to give islam a pass, in the teeth of the most vile atrocities against their own citizens, is unprecedented and I, for one, am at an utter loss to explain it.

      Or perhaps you meant, a ”kaboom” that would actually singe **their** miserable hides ? You could be right there.

      In any case, very good to see a Kenyan non-muslim posting here. Stick around and give us more info from a Kenyan perspective, please !

  14. Gary says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 12:07 am

    Inexcusable

  15. karen says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 1:09 am

    It was always known that a TSA worker could be a weak link in security. Congress’ main concern when the TSA and DHS were formed was how to unionize the airport workers, and at what pay scale, thereby creating a new legion of Democratic Party voters grateful for their jobs, and enlarging the money pump for Dem causes. Ensuring employee competency, loyalty, etc. ….not part of the debate.

  16. David says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 9:19 am

    Obummer is the one responsible for the influx of Muslims. There is no way to vet the Muslims. The TSA is the organization that need ALL the watch lists because of the mission to protect our country. My idea is to stop accepting Muslims into the country and send the ones here back to their country! It is my opinion that the soft stepping when is comes to Muslims has been ordered by Obummer.

    God bless America.

  17. mezcukor says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 9:38 am

    Makes you feel good when you take a plane.

  18. Aton says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 10:44 am

    We had the same problem at XXXX international airport in the UK, where all of the security staff are Muslim. And many wear Muslim dress while on duty.

    But the worst thing was one of the new refuelers, who always parked his car next the fuel-farm, contrary to all the regulations. And no one in management would stop him. As far as I know, his car is still parked next to ten million litres of aviation fuel.

    Aton

    • Aton says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 10:46 am

      I meant to say, “one of the new Muslim refuelers”.

      A

  19. samhein says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    I am so tired of getting treated like a criminal because I went an ankle brace and have a plate in my leg, while their own get a pass. I also love being in an airport and seeing Muslim employees.

    Another interesting thing. I was flying a few weeks ago out of JFK and there were 8 muslims, all in one group, male and female (covered of course),none speaking English and all at the gate and all on stand by for, i think New Orleans. Why was this entire group on stand by? This wasn’t even questioned. They were not on my flight, had it been mine, I would have questioned it and possibly not gone on.

    I have had to fly as of late but am going to start driving as soon as I replace my vehicle.

  20. Norman Moffatt says

    Jun 10, 2015 at 3:44 am

    I’m in China at the moment, this is being reported on Chinese TV, my Chinese friends are shaking their heads in disbelief that something like this can happen. No wonder America is becoming the daily joke.

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