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Undercover agent slips past security at DFW

Faster horses

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Undercover Armed Agent Slips Past Security at DFW
February 24, 2011

Recently two women tried to pass through airport security in the United States. One was unarmed; the other was hiding a gun in her underwear. Which one did the Transportation Security Administration prevent from boarding an airplane?

If you have even the slightest familiarity with the TSA, or with government “security” in general, then you have already figured out that the unarmed woman was denied her right to travel while the armed woman breezed right past the TSA’s finest.

First, the one that got away: KXAS, the NBC affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth, reports that “a high-ranking, inside source” at the TSA said that “an undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners.” The woman was carrying a pistol in her undergarments and “successfully made it through the airport’s body scanners every time she tried, the source said.”

TSA officers may indeed be “heavily tested,” but if failure does not lead to discipline or termination, what good are the tests? The TSA source told KXAS “that none of the TSA agents who failed to spot the gun on the scanned image were disciplined. The source said the agents continue to work the body scanners today.” Just as government schools pass students from one grade to the next despite failing grades, so government employees get to go right on working despite failing a test of precisely the skills they are supposed to employ to protect the public.
 
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