The Transportation Security Administration is testing the use of facial recognition technology at airports across the nation, a move that the federal agency claims will help employees more easily identify travelers.
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Convicted TSA Officer Reveals Secrets of Thefts at Airports – ABC News
By MEGAN CHUCHMACH (@megcourtney) , RANDY KREIDER and BRIAN ROSS (@brianross)
Sept. 28, 2012
A convicted TSA security officer says he was part of a “culture” of indifference that allowed corrupt employees to prey on passengers’ luggage and personal belongings with impunity, thanks to lax oversight and tip-offs from TSA colleagues.
“It was very commonplace, very,” said Pythias Brown, a former TSA officer at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey who admits he stole more than $800,000 worth of items from luggage and security checkpoints over a four-year period.
“It was very convenient to steal,” he said.
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Speaking publicly for the first time after being released from prison, Brown told ABC News his four-year-long crime spree came to an end only because he tried to sell a camera he stole from the luggage of a CNN producer on E-bay but forgot to remove all of the news networks’ identifying stickers.
“It became so easy, I got complacent,” Brown said.
READ: ABC News Tracks Missing iPad to Florida Home of TSA Officer
Brown is one of almost 400 TSA officers who have been fired for stealing from passengers in the past decade. According to the TSA, 381 TSA officers have been fired for theft between 2003 and 2012, including 11 so far in this year.
via Convicted TSA Officer Reveals Secrets of Thefts at Airports – ABC News.
TSA Spending More On New Security System
The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) is switching security systems. The apparent motivation… privacy and health concerns.
A $245 million program is establishing the second generation of body scanners. American Science and Engineering and L-3 Communications has been chosen to develop the new device.
The new technology now in use is called Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT-2). It is able to find non metal weapons and home made explosive devices. The AIT-2 makes use of two types of technology; x-ray scans and electromagnetic waves.
These new scanners have already been deployed in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento earlier this summer. Another 700 have also been placed around the country.
TSA Let 25 Illegal Aliens Attend Flight School Owned by Illegal Alien
The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) actually approved a course teaching 25 illegal aliens how to fly planes from a school owned by… another illegal alien. 6 of them actually went on to acquire pilot’s licenses.
Discovery of this was made by local police on a routine traffic stop of the owner.
The illegal alien owner held two FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) pilot licenses, also known as FAA certificates.
Chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security, Rep. Mike Rogers finds this “… amazing. We have cancer patients, Iraq War veterans and Nobel Prize winners all forced to undergo rigorous security checks before getting on an airplane,…at the same time, ten years after 9/11, there are foreign nationals in the United States trained to fly just like Mohammed Atta and the other 9/11 hijackers did…”
For more on Homeland Security in the spirit style see prophet.tv and this teaching on Building the Warrior.
See for source article TSA Let 25 Illegal Aliens Attend Flight School Owned by Illegal Alien | CNSNews.com.
Third bunch of TSA firings suggests failures
Eight TSA (Transportation Security Administration) officers were fired at the Newark airport this Wednesday for sleeping on the job and or for other employment infractions.
This is the third large TSA group firing this month alone. The workers fired were seen on video sleeping in a checked baggage area at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Also this month: •Seven were fired in Philadelphia after one worker was convicted of bribery.
•Five were fired and 37 more, including the director, were suspended in Fort Myers, Fla., for not conducting additional screenings on hundreds of individuals. Last month:
•Four TSA agents were charged with drug trafficking and bribery, two of which were current and two who were former employees. The union representatives for the TSA workers; the American Federation of Government Employees, didn’t respond to any requests for further information or comment.
For more on security see this teaching from prophet.tv
from Third cluster of TSA firings suggests ‘something is failing’ – USATODAY.com.