Former TSA Agent - "It's All For Show"

**Sombeech** · 03-11-2013, 02:15 PM

The New York Post on Sunday published an op-ed from someone claiming to be a former TSA agent at Newark

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**DiscGo** · 03-12-2013, 08:27 AM

My brother is a flight attendant. He has been asked about a dozen times in the last 8 years to carry a grenade, a bomb, or a gun through security to audit their abilities to detect threats. Never once has a TSA agent (or anyone else in airport security) been able to detect him as a threat. Granted flight attendants fly so much, that they are trusted more than the average passenger, but clearly it isn't that hard to get threats passed security.

**cchoc** · 03-12-2013, 09:17 AM

Next you're going to say a fence around the border isn't going to keep the Canadiens out.

**Rob L** · 03-12-2013, 12:21 PM

It gets worse. Private airports and airfields in your good ol' USA have to have some form of TTF (Through The Fence) security procedures.

In extremis, this means that if you have a barnyard airstrip with a lil' old 1940's taildragger (like I do) in some tucked-away farm all on your own, then you have to assess the security risk of a terrorist threat. Or if you live in a "fly-in community", where your house is also your hangar, and you keep the lawn mower in the hangar (or is it keeping the aeroplane in the garage?) then you are subject to TSA "security" enquiries.

If I were a terrorist, I'd hijack a boatload of crude oil and sail it somewhere to detoante it. No self-respecting terrorist uses aeroplanes these days.

I suppose the TSA "security" system must therefore work on the aircraft side of things. Do the TSA also look at boats?

Rob