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

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 9, 2012 @09:20AM from the things-we-knew dept.

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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Re:It's worth the expense by AngryDeuce · 2012-05-09 09:32 · Score: 4, Interesting

If the government has to spend a bunch of money to make sure that doesn't happen, I'm perfectly okay with that.
What happens when they spend the money and it still happens? Is that cool, too? These guys are fucking criminals, I proctored the TSA testing for 3 years. Believe me, half of them looked like they were either under the influence of narcotics or had more than a passing familiarity with them. You are absolutely no safer with them then you were with the security you had before 9/11.