An undercover TSA operative, posing as a completely unknown person (sans ticket) was able to get an unscreened package onto a JetBlue flight by slipping the ticket agent a hundred bucks. All he said was that he needed to get a package to Boston, and that he’d pay to get it past security. Not a suspicious request at all! He was then given another passenger’s ticket, and the package sailed through without any problems. You, JetBlue, failed the test.
JetBlue has fired the ticket agent in question. Good. But that should just be the start. No matter how many backscatter machines or testicle-grabbing searchers the TSA employs, the allure of a petty bribe will render it all useless. The brains at the front of the process need to match the tech at the back. [Seattle PI via Consumerist]
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Corteks
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM…or they need to give up on all this psychopathic, fear-mongering perceived security bullshit.
The land of “freedom” (as long as you do everything we tell you)
alinos
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:19 PMpretty sure they screened packages before the fear mongering
its the cavity searches which are the bad things
don’t really care if you only put someone through a metal detector, but if you can get a package in unscreened then you got yourself any old thing you want on your plane