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Terminal Mixup Implicates TSA Agents In LAX Smuggling Plot
First time accepted submitter ian_po writes "The U.S. Attorney's office has filed indictments against 7 people, including two Transportation Security Administration Screeners and two former TSA employees, after federal agents set up several smuggling sting operations. The alleged smuggling scheme was revealed after a suspected drug courier went to Terminal 5, where his flight was departing, instead of going through the Terminal 6 checkpoint his written instructions directed him to. Court documents indicate the plan was to return to Terminal 5 through a secure tunnel after being allowed through security by the accused Screener. The courier was caught with 10 pounds of cocaine at the other checkpoint by a different TSA agent. If convicted, the four TSA employees face a minimum of 10 years in Federal prison." If ten pounds of anything can get onto a plane by the simple expedient of bribery, please explain again why adult travelers, but not children, must remove their shoes as they stand massed in an unsecured part of a typical U.S. airport.
The government assumes as usual that terrorists don't have money... why would they they only live in tents with sand all around.
Clearly this indicates that travelers should be tipping their screeners more, and more often.
Those poor TSA agents thought that it was the CIA's cocaine they were waving through. They were just doing their jobs.
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Wait, which is the right answer?
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How could it be a terminal mixup if no one died?
This begs the question
Raises.
Sorry. I need help.
Beg for it.
As always, the weakest link in anything security related are humans. This begs the question of whether we really need the TSA
No, we don't. A relatively few honest people with common sense and actual training would trump the massive number of illiterate mouth breathers they have now. Oh, wait, did I say that out loud?
You are so on a no fly list now.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it