From the Boston Globe:
"In Mid-September, Nathaniel Heatwole sent an e-mail to federal authorities in mid-September saying he had put the items [box cutters and other banned items] aboard two specific Southwest Airlines flights. But the objects were not found until last week -- five weeks later."
Deputy TSA Administrator Stephen McHale's reaction is my quote of the day:
''Amateur testing of our systems does not show us in any way our flaws,'' McHale said. ''We know where the vulnerabilities are, and we are testing them . . . This does not help.''
Oh really? So you knew about these flaws? The Transportation Security Administration is in the habit of letting banned items aboard planes? What, then, is the point of "banning" them? And why did the discovery of these items trigger "...stepped-up inspections of the entire US commercial air fleet." Why didn't they step up those inspections when they were told about those objects? Why weren't they discovered for five weeks?
The TSA seems like a pretty chill place to work, actually.
Posted by Chris at October 22, 2003 09:13 PM | TrackBack