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TSA failed to vet 73 employees with terror ties working at 40 U.S. airports

Mar 17, 2016 8:29 am By Robert Spencer

But no doubt they never came to work with toothpaste tubes larger than three ounces.

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“73 Airport Employees Had Terrorism Ties New Documents Suggest,” by Katherine Weber, Christian Post, March 16, 2016:

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) failed to vet 73 employees with terrorism ties working at 40 U.S. airports, recently-obtained documents assert.

The local FOX-affiliated WFXT-News media outlet has acquired information through the Freedom of Information Act that indicates these workers, who have been employed with private airport businesses, have worked at 40 airports across the country. It remains unclear which of these workers are currently employed.

While the Homeland Security Inspector General’s Office released the report of the 73 airport employees last June, FOX 25 just identified the 40 airports where the terrorist-linked employees currently work or have worked.

According to the media outlet, these employees were not properly vetted because the TSA did not have full access to terrorist databases during their hiring.

Terrorism-linked employees have been flagged at Boston’s Logan International Airport, Denver International Airport, Honolulu International Airport, Dallas Love Field, San Francisco International Airport, and Los Angeles International Airport, among others….

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  1. Manual Paleologos says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 8:57 am

    I guess they weren’t pretty enough to get their crotches groped by T&A.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 9:07 am

      That is a misogynistic comment.

      • quotha raven says

        Mar 17, 2016 at 9:45 am

        To Mortimer and Manuel – I don’t think Manuel’s is a misogynistic comment, just a keen observation with a dash of ironic humor.

        I’d draw people’s attention to an article which appeared here yesterday and addressed the hiring of jihadi recruits and recruiters in the police and military in France. We in the USA are doing the same reckless, dangerous hiring, putting such unvetted types in Homeland Security, the TSA, and congress, to mention just a very few. Not a pretty picture.

        Guess our government adheres to one of Robert’s favorite ponderings:
        What could possibly go wrong?

        Cheers!

        quotha raven.

        • Champ says

          Mar 17, 2016 at 7:32 pm

          quotha wrote:

          “I don’t think Manuel’s is a misogynistic comment, just a keen observation with a dash of ironic humor.”

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Precisely!

        • Huck Folder says

          Mar 20, 2016 at 12:05 am

          quotha raven:

          A word on ‘vetting’, this from Oz,
          on what information you may access,
          or be allowed to see/hear:

          PROTECTED = Baseline Vetting (BV)
          CONFIDENTIAL = BV
          HIGHLY PROTECTED = BV
          SECRET = Negative Vetting Level 1
          TOP SECRET (NV) Negative Vetting Level 2
          TOP SECRET (PV) = Positive Vetting

          It’s a bit like, BV might be checking
          that you have no criminal record, and
          where you lived for the last ten years.

          NV might entail confirming those
          address details, in depth,
          who your friends are,
          what groups you belong to…

          PV is like the devil’s advocate,
          trying to break your story,
          checking the history of your friends,
          trying to find holes, and then
          insert a wedge and pry…
          Your whole life is under examination.

          A similar, parallel illustration is that
          you cannot get a government job in the UK
          unless you have been a British citizen
          your whole life. If you want to serve
          in a sensitive area, like an embassy,
          you have to be British born, of British parents,
          who were born British too, no naturalization.

          Unfortunately, that latter requirement
          is now not worth the paper it’s printed on.
          I’m sure there are now thousands of
          mohammed bin mohammeds in the UK
          who were born ‘British’, as were their parents.
          But their DNA is 100% pakistani,
          as were their grandparents.

          Those vettings cost money and time.
          And if the ‘vetters’ work for Satan
          or are controlled by HA or BHO?
          What then?

          Look how so many brilliant Cambridge
          students (and profs?) were drawn into
          the Soviet Union’s web.

          How many mohammedan ‘moles’ are there
          in currently CIVILIZED governments,
          services, police forces… around the world?

          There could be many who are not even aware
          of their coming equivocation. They could
          appear even more patriotic than the kuffar.

          Then, one day, maybe something on TV,
          or a web page, or, more likely,
          at a Friday sermon, backed up by
          a recruiter’s taqiyya, they are seduced,
          and the brainwashing begins (on the fertile soil
          prepared by the “BoH™”),
          and a new (lesser) jihadist is born.
          But in a position to do incomparably
          more harm than a hot jihadist.

      • Mirren10 says

        Mar 17, 2016 at 6:26 pm

        Mortimer says:

        “That is a misogynistic comment”.

        Why don’t you explain to us, mortimer, why you think the comment is ‘misogynistic’.

        Waiting …

      • Champ says

        Mar 17, 2016 at 7:28 pm

        mortimer wrote:

        “That is a misogynistic comment.”

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        No, it isn’t …not even kinda-sorta.

        Take aim at islam & company for comments that are truly misogynistic.

        • steve says

          Mar 18, 2016 at 11:05 am

          Now, Othman who compiled the garbage that became the Koran, was famed for shedding a tear while he was burying his baby daughter alive. ‘Seems she reached up with a tiny hand to stroke his beard as she choked on the sand , The same sand which he was putting in to her mouth. Of such stuff is a Muslim’ hero’ made, makes you think . Note that ‘Othman’ is a popular Muslim name today, he is considered to be faithful follower of the ‘prophet’.and a real honorable Muslim.

      • Angemon says

        Mar 17, 2016 at 10:03 pm

        In which sort of bizarro universe, mortimer? Leftist paradigmatic dogma much?

    • Myxlplik says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 8:14 pm

      manual,

      You hit the red button of nuclear sarcastic destruction, pure comment section WMD.

      ?

  2. Jack Holan says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 9:01 am

    Robert, you can’t fault them. They reached their Diversity Goals for the Year, received a Bonus and every boss above the got a feather in their cap. This, sadly, is how they think or (don’t think)!

    • mortimer says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 9:10 am

      Lie detector tests will be necessary to select trustworthy candidates for all security positions.

      • خَليفة says

        Mar 17, 2016 at 10:01 am

        Lie detector tests are good idea – combine that with arrest, procecution and jail time for egregious lies if such scum apply for sensitive jobs. For would-be traitors or spies, the usual punishment should be applied.

        • Jay Boo says

          Mar 17, 2016 at 10:11 am

          Instead of Lie detectors Exit Visas

          All disloyal people have no business living in the US.
          If they believe what the Qur’an says is true, give them a boot out the door.

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Mar 17, 2016 at 10:14 am

        Mortimer, the polygraph records physiological changes that occur when, for the most part, one is lying. Those changes primarily exist when one feels guilty or is afraid that the polygrapher will detect his lying. Since Islamic texts allow lying, there is no guilt. As such, In the case of vetting devout Muslims, one might argue that the process would be ineffective . . . After all, he is lying for Allah . . . and Allah will protect him . . . No need to fear . . .

        • Mirren10 says

          Mar 17, 2016 at 6:40 pm

          Not only that, Cecilia, but people can be *trained* to circumvent lie detector tests.

          My husband is a retired Parachute Regiment officer. He was trained in how to circumvent them. And as you say, what lie detector test would affect mohammedans, who believe that whatever they say for ‘allah’ is truth anyway ?

          No. The *only* solution is never to hire mohammedans in the first place. It’s going to take a terrible bloodbath before this commonsense reaction takes place. And even then, there will be plenty of dhimmi stooges, like the Canadian Saunders, who will say we must’nt be ‘islamophobic’.

          Ay de mi.

      • Len Vaness says

        Mar 17, 2016 at 4:16 pm

        Thank you Cecilia…Taqiyya is the black soul of this ‘religion’.

      • Bezelel says

        Mar 18, 2016 at 4:11 pm

        Water boarding.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 9:17 am

      Wake up America

      Policies in action of — The Extreme Left (redundant)

  3. Dave says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 9:04 am

    WFXT Boston
    Fox 25 Original
    http://www.myfoxboston.com/news/2-employees-at-logan-airport-flagged-for-potential-terrorism-ties/161897263

    Follow up
    http://www.myfoxboston.com/news/lawmakers-react-to-tsa-employees-being-flagged-for-terrorism/165260359

    Original gov report
    https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2015/OIG_15-98_Jun15.pdf

  4. Jay Boo says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 9:12 am

    Obama admin totally OUT OF CONTROL
    Obama and Hillary have acted like traitors.

    Even if they had been vetted Obama has purged the background along with Hillary’s emails.

    No wonder Trump has received so many votes after saying that we need to stop Muslim immigration until we figure out what is going on.
    Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham has said “Politicians in Washington seem to be totally disconnected with reality.”“Politicians in Washington seem to be totally disconnected with reality.” and also as far back as last July that we “should stop all immigration of Muslims to the U.S. until this threat with Islam has been settled.”

  5. Myxlplik says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 9:38 am

    This sums up the situation quite well I think.

    http://youtu.be/rhqneAhyJkI

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 10:06 am

      So True

      NO Muslims

      NO MORE followers of the Serpent of Satan from Mecca

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 10:24 am

      What a superb teaching tool! Thanks for posting this video, Myxiplik! I intend to incorporate it in future presentations. I owe you a beer and a ham sandwich.

    • billybob says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 10:51 pm

      “You knew I was a snake before you took me in!” The refugees, of course. Also, all who support the Muslim Brotherhood wherever they are.

  6. Angemon says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 10:15 am

    73 Airport Employees Had Terrorism Ties New Documents Suggest

    But hey, I’m sure they’re doing a stellar work protecting Americans…

    According to the media outlet, these employees were not properly vetted because the TSA did not have full access to terrorist databases during their hiring.

    This is the crux of the whole scam: you’re vetting *known* criminals, or criminal sympathizers, but you can’t vet them if they keep their allegiances to themselves or go through a change of heart and start taking their religion seriously after being vetted.

    • Karen says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 11:24 am

      I’m reminded of the circular logic of the, cough cough, vetting process for the ‘Syrian’ refugees. They are run through a process, but there is no data available to inspect, so they really aren’t vetted. But since a process was followed, they are *deemed* vetted even though the process was woefully inadequate. It’s like saying “I see no bad news” even though I haven’t read the newspaper.

      I can only assume that the regime is fine with letting in a few terrorists here and there. Why not? They are fine with allowing Ebola and Zitka patients to travel here, all in the name of the mysterious new value called ‘freedom of movement’. Of course, we are all in favor of liberal travel, but allowing in pandemic diseases? Whose rights prevail? Not American’s, obviously.

    • Mirren10 says

      Mar 17, 2016 at 6:56 pm

      To Angemon:

      Exactly.

      islam is the *only* religion where we have to fear it’s adherents suddenly becoming more ‘religious’.

      Backsliding Christians ? No. The only things they will do is to attend church more regularly, or perhaps proselytise in a homeless shelter. Ditto Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, etc. Wiccans might be more assiduous at the Solstice, but *none* of the above will ever start plotting the murder of those who don’share their beliefs.

      Ipso facto? islam is the religion of blood, death, murder, hate, and torture.

  7. خَليفة says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 10:37 am

    It’s almost as if it were a coordinated plan by the PTBs.

    Any damage/breech has already occurred. W/O mentioning and speculative scenarios ( for security reasons ) I can think of dozens of plans which would cause harm, based on details of this report.

    The worst potential danger is that those 73 coopted others who are not currently on the radar of any security agency.

    An advantage we have, at least for now, is that non-western jihadis ( and the low lives they might recruit ) are not very creative or particularly intelligent.

    Those of us who know, need to be more vigilant when traveling or find ourselves in certain public spaces. You can be aware of danger without fearing it – climbing a ladder can be dangerous.

  8. SoCalMike says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 11:06 am

    Don’t worry.
    They promise to “vet” the jihadis they are inviting here.
    The policy of bipartisan treason will not end.

    We are the state.
    We ignore real problems, create new ones, address fake ones and take existing problems and make them worse.
    Then the failures we rack up are evidence of the need to repeat the process.

  9. Mirren10 says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 7:05 pm

    To SoCalMike:

    Very true.

    “We are the state”.

    Yes. And the ones who assert themselves as such, are the very ones who will never have to suffer the consequences of what *they* have brought about. *That* is left to thè rest of us, who never asked for it, never voted for it

  10. Virginia29thInfantryDiv says

    Mar 18, 2016 at 8:48 am

    When I walk through Dulles Airport in Virginia twice a week, my constant thought is “sleeper cell.” In fact I jokingly refer to it to myself as Islamic Jihadi Sleeper Cell International Airport.

  11. Bezelel says

    Mar 18, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    The libtard way, spend other peoples money and gamble with other peoples lives.

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