Much of this is due to hiring people who could be jihadis without making any attempt to vet them, as such attempts would be “Islamophobic.”
“Nearly 2 Million Airport Workers May Pose Security Threat as U.S. Studies Cost of Screening Them,” Judicial Watch, March 2, 2021:
Nearly 2 million workers with unescorted access to security restricted areas at airports throughout the U.S. could pose an “insider threat,” according to a new federal audit, yet the government is still studying how to effectively curb the risk. Congress has tasked the famously inefficient Transportation Security Administration (TSA), created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to protect the nation’s transportation system, with submitting a plan examining the cost and feasibility of enhanced worker screening measures at American airports, but it seems that the agency cannot handle the task. The assignment was embedded in a 2018 law, TSA Modernization Act, that aims to improve the agency’s screening technologies, streamline its passenger screening process and mandate more rigorous background checks of airport workers, among other things….
The TSA determined that enhanced airport worker screening would cost American taxpayers between $2.9 and $3.6 billion, with ongoing annual costs of $2.5 to $3.1 billion….
This is a critical issue because the TSA estimates that more than 1.8 million workers have unescorted access to security restricted areas of airports nationwide. The employees may wittingly or unwittingly misuse or allow others to misuse their access to sensitive areas or knowledge of security procedures to exploit vulnerabilities and potentially cause harm, the GAO report states. “For example, in July 2019, an aircraft mechanic was charged with willfully attempting to damage an aircraft,” congressional investigators write. “Additionally, in August 2018, a ground services agent commandeered a small aircraft, which subsequently crashed.” TSA has tried to curb these types of “insider threats” by conducting random physical screening of employees at larger airports and requiring most airport operators to perform random worker screening. Apparently, it is not enough. “The aviation industry faces a consistent threat posed by workers and other insiders who have used their access privileges and knowledge to commit criminal acts, such as drug smuggling, gun smuggling, theft, and attempted suicide bombing,” the GAO report says….
Records obtained by Judicial Watch a few years ago show hundreds of badges that allow agents to access secure areas of airports went missing along with uniforms and other devices used to control entry….
Mike says
nothing will be done until we have another 9/11 event
Congress is to busy changing America for the worse to take any treat from any sources except from Neandertals and Deplorables.
Open boarders will make the event easy
Iran has said they have sleeper cells in every state in America and can attract at any time
Crusades Were Right says
“Well, Mr. Mahommed, after studying your application and CV, quite frankly I can’t see any reason why we should employ you here. You don’t even seem to have any legal immigration status in this country.”
“You give me job, or I call you RACIST!”
“Welcome to Airport Security, Mr. Mahommed!”
lol
mortimer says
The Crusades were not ‘right’. They were horribly misguided and so are you.
Ecosse1314 says
Care to explain your “horribly misguided”reasoning Mr Mortimer”?
somehistory says
mortimer never explains his “attacks” on other posters. He is a ‘hit and run’ attacker when he sees someone posting something that might offend a mo slum who might stop by to read here. Or something which implies that the mo slums are not ordinary people who just ‘have a wrong idea’ about islam.
Infidel says
Very true, Somehistory! I’ve seen his guerilla attacks in past threads as well, like the one yesterday when he claimed that only 15% of muslims support jihad. I think he’s in taquiyya exercises of his own when he posts anti-islam diatribes, and doesn’t at all mean them but is just virtue-signaling the rest of us
A bit like Rod and Eli
somehistory says
Infidel,
I have to agree with your assessment, per the vs of the rest of us.
Bud says
Mortimer…Try reading “The Glory of the Crusades” by Steve Weidenkopf. There is no question that the Fourth Crusades’ sack of Constantinople in 1204 was a terrible event. However, there were extremely good reasons for the Crusades overall, and, for the most part they were done for a noble purpose, and at great cost and sacrifice by the nobles, knights and others involved.
Crusades Were Right says
@mortimer:
I’m now considering changing my moniker to “The Crusades Were Quite Simply The Best Thing That Ever Happened”.
Nah, only kidding. Too long.
; ¬)
Ecosse1314 says
Ha ha but very true..Deus Vult
somehistory says
CWR is not the “misguided” one, here.
Self-defense when attacked is a moral reaction. And the Truth…mo slums sling the ‘racist’ charge, and the ‘phobia’ charge every time they are not getting what they want from an infidel…is never “misguided.”
Infidel says
Mortimer
Get yourself and read the ‘Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam… and the Crusades‘ By one Robert Spencer
Steven RSA says
Attack is always the best form of defense.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, the Crusades were largely defensive wars.
And how is it incorrect that Muslims regularly scream racism to get their way–even though Islam is not a race?
gregbeetham says
Some of the stuff Mortimer says is good and some is incomprehensible like his proclamation that the Crusades were ‘horribly misguided’ when it was the Muslims who invaded the Jewish and Christian holy land in the first place when they had no business being there and then to top it off started persecuting European Christians who were on a pilgrimage to the holy land.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
Take another look at the “Crusades Were Right” post.
Your knowledge of islam is encyclopedic, and I’m sure that you must know that the Crusades were almost entirely defensive in nature. Think of where the West would be if the Crusades had never happened.
And muslims, with their apologists, frequently use the “race card” in order to augment their victimhood.
You must be aware of all that…
Me says
No. Crusades were a completely legal, albeit horibly horribly executed, police action with the objective to return what was stolen.
This simple.
mortimer says
All Muslims in secure positions should be examined periodically with a polygraph to discover if they are thinking about jihad.
Chrissie01 says
They should not be in any such position in the first place.
If anyone has “Mein Kampf” at home, praising Hitler, he is not fit for any security job. Neither is someone who has the Q’rane at home, praising allah the all merciful.
But that would require Western governments to finally, finally, finally recognize this ideology as fascist and radically violent.
mortimer says
Chrissie, only 15% of Muslims endorse jihad terrorism. Less than 1% of Muslims are jihadists. Most Muslims would not help terrorism. A minority would. But finding out which one is the problem. Even other Muslims cannot figure out who is a secret jihadist.
Ecosse1314 says
And yet Mortimer you have the figures at your fingertips. Could you explain where these figures were published and what other evidence supports them.?
somehistory says
mortimer,
You have been asked to give your sources for these stats, but you never come across.
And….no mo slums should be given any duties where they have access to restricted areas, where they must pass a security check, where they have any kind of position of authority over others.
It is the highest of insults to people who have never been a problem…or potential problem…at an airport to be searched, “touched all over,” or had their body x-rayed by a mo slum…a member of the largest terrorist organization in the world.
Regular Americans should have these jobs and every mo slum should be searched and questioned. Even then, they will lie to get by security.
All mo slums….all of them…are jihadists…of one or another form of the war weapon.
somehistory says
“finding out which one is the problem. ”
That is the ***reason*** they should not be hired for these jobs.
gregbeetham says
I’ve seen figures of surveys quoted by others that claim more than 70% of Muslims passively sympathise with Jihadists but given the propensity of Muslims for lying I wouldn’t trust what they said either way.
Chrissie01 says
in other words: only 15 % of the Nazis endorsed killing Jews, only 15 % of the Chinese Communist Party members endorse concentration and re-education camps…and as for the rest, all is well?
Of course not. The poisonous plant to be uprooted and burnt is the ideology, as in the case of national socialism and communism. As long as these cults/this cult are/is allowed in the Western world, the degree to which its instructions are implemented will forever be a Russian roulette. It will always be a risk. A Big One’!
BlackSabbath says
Wolf in charge of the hen house.
somehistory says
It’s always about the money. If they spend it to secure the travelers, they won’t have as much to put in their own pockets.
They don’t care about the safety of the public who must travel by air. They just don’t give a hoot. It’s so much easier to put the money in their own pockets and then ‘splain’ later that this person or that person did this or that and that they ‘prevented’ a disaster in the making, than to do their job and make sure they don’t hire the terrorists, drug smugglers, etc. in the first place.
Perverts who have raped/molested little kids are hired by schools and other places where kids are forced to assemble in large numbers. They manage to convince the one hiring that they are no risk. The background checks aren’t performed and the pervert gets the job.
This is the same way with mo slums who get jobs at airports and then use their positions to aid terrorism. And asking them questions is just about useless.
The “wittingly” and “unwittingly” remind of clapper…rubbing his forehead (a clear sign of lying), and saying, “Not wittingly,” when he knew all along.
spiro says
Hiring Moslems at T S A what could go wrong after all 9/11 was a long time ago
Government worried about money
Oh that’s rich
When you live in the progressive la la land it’s all butterflies and rainbows
I almost forgot I passed thru san jose
T S A a few years ago they took my small can of shave cream it’s a good thing cause that shave cream is dangerous
Good luck folks
somehistory says
If not for mo slums, there would be no “shoes off,” and x-rays of our persons, and most of the other things they do when one needs to fly for whatever reason.
And yet, they give plum jobs to mo slums and expect that we will all be safe…maybe, perhaps, possibly, if only.
Like asking a cobra to be your babysitter and keep the little one safe.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
The picture says it all. The death cult member checking a nun for weapons. What a joke. We.ve got the foxes watching the hen houses. Even if we vetted these death cult members, we would still have to worry about security in sharia Canada and sharia Great Britain (just to name a few). Long live political correctness.
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning the topic of Airport Security before September 11, 2001 during the 1990’s which seemed be sadly nothing but a hoax of show for the public.
For a year of that decade I had a job as a security screener. As a type of airport security guard all of us, the security personal, had to follow the rules which allowed and non- serrated knifes and box cutter on the airplane as long as the sharp objects where under two inches long .So during a visited from one of the top person of the security company I told her “Those non-serrated knives and box cutters can still be very dangerous and harmful in the hands of the wrong person.” Her response to me for saying that was only silence and an angry look that gave the message “Don’t you dare ever say such a thing as that again.” As for the security supervisors said to be “In my opinion this is just a set of as a [empty] show for the traveling public to make them feel safe.”
One time a man walked through the metal detector and the alarm, buzzer, didn’t go off when he was wearing a rather large metal belt buckle. So he informed me about it. So I replied “Standing over there next to each other is the security manager and security supervisor its best if you inform them about that.” After he informed them they thanked him and said that they would look in that, they didn’t.
Another time a supervisor said to me that “This security set up is bull S….” He even berated me for ,a number of times, when I called for bag check saying “Does that look like a test item ?” He really didn’t want to bother to get off his seat for make a bag check. I said to him “ I can’t see through the item maybe something dangerous is hidden being it .” On hearing that and he threw his head back and went through his eye rolling routine as to say “Don’t start getting ridiculous on me, nothing awful will ever happen.”
This might be somewhat related to a news report in the year 2005 about another airport ,the Chicago airport, which the news crew had a hidden counting devise and a hidden camera. They had counted one thousand bags went through the airport security and not even once was a call for a bag check. Went that confronted the security supervisor about that he said “There was nothing suspicious to call a check about” The news crew said “Still after a thousand bags, and not one need for a bag check call” That supervisor just restated “There was not a need for a bag check call.” Of course he wouldn’t change his story. If that airport was like the one of works at the call was not made because the security supervisor would “tell off” that security screener for making a call for a bag check.
Walter Sieruk says
With this all Americans should remember the wisdom that Thomas Jefferson written that applies more now than in this own time. .Mr. Jefferson wrote “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
gravenimage says
Nearly two million airport workers may pose security threat as officials studies cost of screening them
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I’ve long noted this suicidal insanity.
Jim says
The threat would not necessarily come from a religious fanatic. It could also come from a mentally deranged person, or someone like the pilot in Europe who was fired but allowed to fly another time. On that flight he locked the other pilot out of the cockpit and disabled the door locks, so no one could get in. Then he flew the plane into a mountain, presumably killing himself and the passengers and crew simply for revenge. How can one be sure of the sanity and mental stability of workers? And of course there are the political fanatics like the Unabomber and Tim McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber. They kill to call attention to their political animosities.
gravenimage says
Certainly, members of any group can be mentally ill. But hiring people who adhere to a creed that calls for the slaughter of all unbelievers who do not submit to Islam is not a good move…