Will the real TSA security detail please stand up?

[formercia]

What's wrong with this picture?

http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4420374.html

Records detail missing TSA badges, uniforms

Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — More than 3,700 identification badges and uniform items have been reported lost or stolen from Transportation Security Administration employees since 2003, according to documents obtained by a San Antonio television station.

WOAI-TV received the documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

Los Angeles International Airport reported the most items with 636 missing uniforms. O'Hare International Airport in Chicago reported 189 missing badges.

Bush International Airport in Houston led Texas with 77 missing items. Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport had about 40 items gone.

Security experts have said the badges and uniforms could pose a security threat if they end up in the wrong hands.

[Ian David]

1. I think they were already ISSUED into the wrong hands in the first place. n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. The real security threat is the TSA

and DHS, IMHO.

[MrCoffee]

3. ruh-roh! right in time for Christmas travel.

quick, throw away your bottled water!

[uppityperson]

4. I love the last line, made me laugh, of course in a really sick way.

[babylonsister]

5. TSA=FUBAR. DHS, too. nt

[williesgirl]

6. This is serious - our present government can't do anything right. There's no

accountability in any of the agencies since political cronies are running them and don't have a clue of what they're doing. recommended

[formercia]

7. Not a new problem...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/12/05/airport-security041205.html

Airport security to be reviewed
Last Updated: Monday, December 6, 2004 | 1:46 PM ET
CBC News
Canada's 89 federal airports experienced a security surge this weekend after an investigation by CBC News found more than 1,000 uniforms and security badges from federal airport screeners had been lost or stolen during the first nine months of 2004.

Some of the lost items were discovered on Ebay, an online auction site.

[formercia]

8. Meanwhile, the Canadians let 250,000 get through

with little or no checks and nothing happens. Surprised?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/21/cannon-security.html

Inquiry launched into Pearson security lapse: minister
Last Updated: Thursday, December 21, 2006 | 8:39 PM ET
CBC News

The federal transport minister has launched an inquiry into a security lapse last October at Canada's largest airport that resulted in passenger luggage not being properly screened or not screened at all.

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CBC News reported Wednesday that a job dispute in mid-October at Pearson International Airport led to as many as 250,000 people passing through security with minimal checks or none at all.