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October 19, 2012 20:20

TSA on Friday proposed firing 25 of its employees and suspending 19 for failing to properly screen checked luggage. The action comes as a result of a year-long investigation prompted by reports of theft in a New Jersey baggage room.

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marco travaglio (unregistered) 21.10.2012 20:04

To many criminals doing those jobs all over the world,   who cares right????

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Elizabeth (unregistered) 21.10.2012 18:19

The TSA has “proposed firing” agents. Don’t believe they’ll do it, there’s just not enough room back at the mental hospitals, under the bridges and in the flop-houses for these agents to return to. Anyway the ones that need to be fired are the TSA Director and his boss Obongo!

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schizophrenic (unregistered) 20.10.2012 19:19

I love those blue uniforms.

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bark obomber (unregistered) 20.10.2012 18:53

It seems the TSA is the group of folks the Government let loose to roam the streets when they closed down all the asylums. Probably can't even get jobs in supermarkets because they spend all their hours fondling the cantelobes and the cuc's.

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StG 44 20.10.2012 13:45

Of course, they will immediately be rehired, because getting fired from your last job is one of the requirements to be hired at TSA.

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bark obomber (unregistered) 19.10.2012 23:47

The incompetence starts at the top from hiring these lowlifes so the firings should start there.

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Fisher1949 19.10.2012 23:38

There have been 90 major security breaches by TSA in less than two years, dozens of them in Newark. Many have resulted in terminal evacuations resulting in millions of dollars in airline disruptions. In dozens of other incidents weapons have made it aboard planes.   Bas ed on the GAO tests in 2011, TSA failed to discover weapons 60% - 70% of the time. For every gun they find two get through.   In eleven years we have wasted $80 billion dollars on TSA only to get the same results that cost taxpayers nothing before. All we get is rampant crime and failure among TSA workers that is far worse than anything by the private screeners.   There were 101 TSA workers arrested in the last 22 months including 13 arrested for child sex crimes, 28 for theft, 12 for smuggling contraband through security and one for murder. TSA fires lazy screeners but keeps criminals, including a known pedophile Thomas Harkins, a TSA Supervisor in Philadelphia.   There have been more than ten major evacuations at Newark in less than 2 years some extending for hours and resulting in millions of dollars in disruption. On August 6, 2012, a woman suspected of concealing explosives got tired of waiting and left the checkpoint. She flew to Cleveland while TSA emptied the terminal for three hour looking for her.   This is the airport implicated in one of the BDO profiling incidents and has the distinction of performing so badly for so long that the Federal Security Director, Barbara Bonn Powell, had to be replaced. Newark screener Michael Arato managed to steal $39,000 in electronics and cash while working as a screener, before being arrested.   W orkers were also recently caught sleeping on the job and things at Newark are so bad that Rep Peter King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee, has put TSA on notice to fix its problems or face a Congressional investigation.   TSA is beyond salvage and must be replaced. There is far too much public animosity and history of abuses, failures and crimes to ever make this agency reputable.

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Steven (unregistered) 19.10.2012 20:57

We need to disband and rid our selves of these tyrannically criminal, and cabal controlled agency’s that are a waste of time and our valuable resources.  This blows 1984 out of the room.  PS-This would be a big joke if it were not such a travesty to our free loving people. Stop it, just Stop it, and restore our constitutional rights that the world used to admire.

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