The Transportation Security Administration has had a rough time recently.
ABC News reported that an undercover investigation revealed that investigators were able to smuggle simulated explosives or weapons through security checkpoints in 95% of trials. TSA’s administrator was then reassigned after this report was released.
Another investigation from earlier this year found that hundreds if not thousands of security badges went missing at airports around the country, raising security concerns. The TSA wouldn’t say how often the IDs go missing.
A senior official told a Senate committee that TSA conducted background checks that cleared people for access to secure airport areas even though their names were on a federal database of possible terrorists.
Senator John Thune (R-SD), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, which has primary jurisdiction over the TSA, recently said that in light of these recent problems that the TSA is in need of a number of reforms.
So the agency has clearly had some problems of late.
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