Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via USA Today.

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Security screeners at two of the nation's busiest airports failed to find
fake bombs hidden on undercover agents posing as passengers in more than
60% of tests last year, according to a classified report obtained by USA
TODAY.

Screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75% of
simulated explosives and bomb parts that Transportation Security
Administration testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on bags at
checkpoints, the TSA report shows.

At Chicago O'Hare International Airport, screeners missed about 60% of
hidden bomb materials that were packed in everyday carry-ons — including
toiletry kits, briefcases and CD players. San Francisco International
Airport screeners, who work for a private company instead of the TSA,
missed about 20% of the bombs, the report shows. The TSA ran about 70 tests
at Los Angeles, 75 at Chicago and 145 at San Francisco.

The report looks only at those three airports, using them as case studies
to understand how well the rest of the U.S. screening system is working to
stop terrorists from carrying bombs through checkpoints.

The failure rates at Los Angeles and Chicago stunned security experts.

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More:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071018/1a_lede18_dom.art.htm

- - ferg

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