{"id":21580,"date":"2015-06-17T05:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T09:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=21580"},"modified":"2015-06-16T15:39:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:39:26","slug":"airport-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/06\/airport-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In a recent test of airport security measures, 70 attempts were made to smuggle weapons and explosives past TSA checkpoints.\u00a0 67 got through, a failure rate of 96%.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the details from the classified report are worse than that.\u00a0 Freshman Senator Ben Sasse <\/a>(R-Neb)\u2013the only politician I know personally\u2013is taking up the cause.\u00a0 He wrote an op-ed piece for USA Today on the problem. <\/p>\n

From Ben Sasse, There are TSA secrets worse than a 96% fail rate: Column<\/a>, USA Today:<\/p>\n

Last week, a classified inspector general investigation was leaked, delivering the shocking news that the Transportation Security Administration failed to stop weapons and explosives from passing airport checkpoints 96% of the time.<\/p>\n

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As a member of the Senate\u2019s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and \u2014 more important \u2014 as a dad who frequently flies with my kids and wife, I am appalled by this inexcusable national security lapse. But outrage is not enough.<\/p>\n

Before they board another flight, the American people deserve the truth. Without giving our enemies specific technological or strategic information that would expose new vulnerabilities, President Obama has an obligation to declassify the inspector general\u2019s investigation and to publicly release everything else the administration knows about TSA\u2019s failures.<\/p>\n

Here is what the public already knows: TSA failed to stop undercover individuals from smuggling weapons and explosives past checkpoints 67 times out of 70 attempts. Our families are only as safe as our weakest TSA checkpoint. After 9\/11, it became inescapably clear that, although we have to be right every time, terrorists need to succeed only once. What happens when we are wrong 96% of the time?<\/p>\n

Here is what keeps me up at night: The publicly available facts are disturbing, but the classified details are even worse. Millions of families will soon fly to summer vacations, but if moms knew what members of Congress have learned behind closed doors, they would march on Washington demanding an urgent, top-to-bottom reevaluation of airport security.<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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