The Transportation Security Administration has one major job: To safeguard travel, especially for citizens who fly the thousands of commercial flights in the skies above America every day.
A shocking new report indicates that the TSA is failing at that task… badly.
Undercover investigators sent by the government discovered that they were able to take knives, guns, and even explosives through TSA checkpoints an appalling 70 percent of the time.
According to CBS News, similar tests conducted two years ago gave the TSA a stunningly bad 95 percent detection-failure. Although 70 percent is obviously an improvement on paper, the porous security is raising many eyebrows.
“We found that briefing disturbing,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. That group received a full briefing on the security problems from the Office of the Inspector General.
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Predictably, the TSA promised that things would change, but offered few explanations about why security had become so bad.
The agency quickly pointed to technology and more funding as the magical answers to its woes. Administrators want to upgrade to newer 3D imagery scanners which use technology similar to medical CT devices.
“TSA administrator David Pekoske told Congress the CT technology is the most effective way to keep passengers safe, but the cost is a major hurdle,” reported CBS.
Yes, leave it to a failing government agency to beg for more money, as if that solves every problem.
A statement from the Department of Homeland Security admitted that there are likely deeper issues than simply not having the latest and greatest equipment.
The DHS “identified vulnerabilities with TSA’s screener performance, screening equipment and associated procedures,” according to ABC News.
Airport security is of course a serious concern, but there is also a larger issue at play: Big Government incompetence.
Political leftists love to tout more government and more spending as the answer to every woe, but once look at recent headlines shows that absolute faith in the federal government is a sucker’s bet.
The U.S. government dropped the ball and failed to put a known criminal into the background check database. The result was a mass shooting at a church and the death of dozens — but Big-Government addicts say only Uncle Sam can be trusted with guns.
A string of once-mighty U.S. Navy warships have been involved in completely preventable collisions that claimed the lives of brave young American sailors. Incompetence and bureaucracy was to blame, but the same government that can’t steer a ship wants to run every part of your life, from education to health care.
Now, a government agency that treats law-abiding cancer survivors as suspects and pats down children can’t even stop guns and bombs from being walked right onto airplanes… But liberals want similar agencies to act as America’s nanny.
Government monopolies and the bureaucrats who run them have zero incentive to do their jobs well. If they were effective, they wouldn’t be able to justify billions of dollars in new spending requests every year. Those 3D scanner contracts aren’t going to fund themselves.
Here’s a simple question: Would you keep paying an employee who spectacularly failed at a job 70 percent of the time? We’re not talking about Major League Baseball here. Lives are literally be in the hands of a grossly incompetent — yet offensively arrogant — unionized TSA agents throughout the United States.
And they’re failing.
The American people are the ones who hired the TSA to do a job. It may be time to call the failing employee into the office, and have a little chat about the future.
H/T The Daily Wire
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