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Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA Screeners Gaping Holes in Airline Security:

Friday, December 17, 2010 12:58
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Secret Tests At LAX, O'Hare, Newark Show TSA Screeners Missed Guns, Bombs

Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight.

Dec. 16, 2010

He didn't realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose "baby" Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the belt and was x-rayed. When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston.

"It's just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun," Seif told ABC News. "How can you miss it? You cannot miss it."

But the TSA did miss it, and despite what most people believe about the painstaking effort to screen airline passengers and their luggage before they enter the terminal, it was not that unusual.

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  • You “dropped” the best parts ….. 70% of the “bad”" items get thru, and at some airports ….. 100%. TSA is too busy stuffing their own pockets to protect you.
    “Integrity, Team Spirit, Innovation” is sewn around the border of the newest TSA patch.
    Have you EVER seen an organization that had to SEW A REMINDER not to STEAL, LIE, and CHEAT on their own shoulders!!!!
    “INTEGRITY” ……….. STEAL from the passengers.
    “TEAM SPIRIT” ……. BACK-STAB your CO-Workers and the PASSENGERS
    “INNOVATION” …….. IN CHEATING on their own tests.
    Supervisors padding their hours to make house payments.
    Supervisors staggering in drunk.
    Supervisors yelling all NON-Christians should leave the country
    Supervisors expressing their desire to see certain U.S. Senators DEAD
    Real MORAL organization.
    How many moral qualms will they struggle with when ……… “I just point, and shoot, and post to facebook”
    that is how fast that nice TSA can use his camera phone to expose you to the world.
    Your naked image can be on the internet before you have even cleared their checkpoint.
    Even DHS admits that 70% of their practice bombs get through TSA despite the groping and fondling.
    By the way, The x-rays that take “virtual photos” destroy your DNA at relatively low energy levels.
    But hey, Michael Chertoff is making lot of MONEY using his status as FORMER HEAD of DHS/TSA to sell them for RAPISCAN.

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