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Congress Smacks Down TSA
Orders agency to reduce patdowns, use private security screeners, and address scanner health concerns
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Sept 12, 2012
A new House Report has slammed the Transportation Security Administration for “failing to meet taxpayers’ expectations.”
The report, prepared by the House Committee on Homeland Security, says that the TSA must become a “leaner, smarter organization,” and concedes that the agency’s insensitivity and obsession with defending unpopular airport screening procedures is impeding security.
The report characterizes the TSA as a bloated bureaucracy that is bogged down in promoting policies that do not match current threat levels.
“The agency has gone down a troubling path of overspending, limiting private-sector engagement, and failing to sufficiently protect passenger privacy,” said transportation security subcommittee leader Mike Rogers at yesterday’s hearing.
“Eleven years after 9/11, the American people expect to see tangible progress in transportation security, with effective operations that respect both their privacy and their wallets,” the committee report notes. “The private sector is best suited to this challenge, not the federal government.”
The report also noted that the TSA has failed to make it clear why it has switched to a policy of invasive ‘enhanced’ patdowns, or what specific threat the procedure addresses.
“Pat-downs have hit a nerve with the general public, and TSA has failed to adequately explain why it continues to use this procedure two years after its initial rollout,” the committee said.
Recommending a reduction in patdowns, the report also slammed the TSA for taking a whole year to exclude children from the enhanced procedure after it was introduced in October 2010.
Turning to radiation firing body scanners, the committee recommends that the TSA sponsor “an independent analysis” of the health risks of body scanners and install privacy filters on all devices.
The Report cites the decision in EPIC v. DHS, pointing out that the TSA has failed to abide by the ruling of a federal appeals court to “act promptly” to receive public comments on the deployment of the scanners.
The report also questioned why the TSA has grown exponentially in size when the amount of travelers has decreased.
“A private-sector entity in the face of a shrinking customer base usually must downsize,” the committee said. “TSA, by contrast, has continually grown its ranks despite fewer travelers.”
just a heads up for congress ,1 if you allow this to continue you lose in the travel by air people simply because of your nazi tactics, 2 we are americans we value our constitution and bill of rights all of this zionist controll of our country is unconstitutional and violates our bill of rights now is the time to flush this crap back to israel were it come from, and you should all be spanked, you act like children, you are all guilty of treason against our country by allowing this to happen. most americans know you sit on your thumbs you are all dissfunctional taking bribes and ignoring your real jobs of representing the american people. with out us people behind you you are as good as unimployed so you decide if you want to move to israel or stay here if you stay here you should do your job for the american people in all your doing not israel zionists. no president can function with you as you are so you are a waist of tax payer money and you should let us decide who we want to be president not israel get it?
Have you seen this petitition to “Stop the TSA”
http://www.senatenj.com/index.php/doherty/tsa-petition/sign-the-petition-help-stop-invasive-tsa-screening/7149
Send it to everyone you know !
I read that last year airlines lost 8 BILLION dollars because of the TSA.
Many Europeans simply will not fly to the U.S. anymore because of the TSA’s invasive procedures.
We are the laughing stock of the world because of a ridiculous agency implemented by a paranoid administration.
From 2002-2010, airports were using metal detectors, locked cockpits and heightened awareness. And there were no more incidents.
But then in 2020, this administration rolled out cancer-causing scanners and an aggressive TSA.