Undercover Report Reveals Rampant TSA Screw-Ups at Newark Airport
An undercover investigation targeting TSA procedures at Newark Liberty International Airport has leaked, and with it comes a shocking statistic: security screeners there are performing pat-downs properly only 16.7 percent of the time.
New Jersey’s Star-Ledger newspaper has unearthed the results of a secret, internal investigation carried out earlier this year by clandestine officers of the Transportation and Security Administration, the US Homeland Security Department subdivision in charge of patting down passengers and combing for contraband at airports across the country. According to the findings, however, the TSA can hardly cut the mustard when it comes to fulfilling their duties at Newark, one of the busiest air travel hubs in the entire United States and the departure point of one of the four planes hijacked during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Star-Ledger reports that the TSA agents at Newark are performing their job duties correctly just a fraction of the time, executing standard pat-downs properly only in 16.7 percent of cases and taking appropriate action with prohibited items passing through check-points in around one-quarter of the instances that they were evaluated on.
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(Source: endthelie.com)
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