{"id":6764,"date":"2021-12-07T18:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2021-12-07T18:10:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T18:10:52","slug":"after-20-years-of-failure-kill-the-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6764","title":{"rendered":"After 20 Years of Failure, Kill the TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The TSA blog carries constant reports of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/tsa-review-feb-24-april-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weapons confiscated<\/a>&nbsp;from people who forgot to remove them from carry-on bags. But the Homeland Security Red Teams in the 2015 test actively concealed forbidden items just as real criminals and terrorist would. The result was that &#8220;TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years later, a Red Team test at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/tsa-agents-minneapolis-airport-failed-164139315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">achieved the same 95 percent failure rate<\/a>&nbsp;to detect explosives, weapons, and illegal drugs. Repeat national tests in 2017&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-operation-us-airports\/story?id=51022188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also went badly<\/a>, &#8220;in the ballpark&#8221; of an 80 percent failure rate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"KOXsuHY8F3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/11\/19\/after-20-years-of-failure-kill-the-tsa\/\">After 20 Years of Failure, Kill the TSA<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;After 20 Years of Failure, Kill the TSA&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/11\/19\/after-20-years-of-failure-kill-the-tsa\/embed\/#?secret=ZYCGoU64xi#?secret=KOXsuHY8F3\" data-secret=\"KOXsuHY8F3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The TSA blog carries constant reports of weapons confiscated from people who forgot to remove them from carry-on bags. But the Homeland Security Red Teams in the 2015 test actively concealed forbidden items just as real criminals and terrorist would. The result was that &#8220;TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, a Red Team test at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport achieved the same 95 percent failure rate to detect explosives, weapons, and illegal drugs. Repeat national tests in 2017 also went badly, &#8220;in the ballpark&#8221; of an 80 percent failure rate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1481,413,1480],"class_list":["post-6764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-airport","tag-security","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6765,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}