Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars

TheGift73 writes with a Techdirt story about a House Oversight Committee report that is very critical of the TSA's handling of money. "The House Oversight Committee has come out with a report slamming the TSA for tremendous amounts of waste, specifically in the 'deployment and storage' of its scanning equipment. Basically, it sounds like the TSA likes to go on giant spending sprees, buying up security equipment and then never, ever using it." Earlier this month Rand Paul laid out his plan for dealing with the TSA.

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That was Rand Paul.

[InvisibleClergy]

That was Rand Paul in that article you linked, by the way. They are not the same person.

..Again.

[rykin]

Yet another reason why the TSA is useless.

Of course

[Anonymous Coward]

The purpose of the body scanners was to make Michael Chertoff very rich.

And in that goal they have been a smashing success. And they still are.

Well ... yeah

[jxander]

Anyone with a functioning brain should realize that TSA is a giant waste of money, unless you have stock in a nail-clipper supply company.

Every terror plot that has been averted since 9/11, was averted by passengers. Underwear bomber, shoe bomber, etc... all thwarted by civilians who won't tolerate that shit anymore.

Re:It's worth the expense

[h4rr4r]

Too bad they so far have failed to do that. Why not just light 100 million dollars on fire and call it the same thing?

Re:I feel better.

[zentigger]

actually the value of articles confiscated is not entirely wasted as those articles have founded a flourishing "surplus" industry:

http://www.eyeflare.com/article/where-buy-goods-confiscated-tsa/