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TSA Investigates Tip-Off on Security Test
11/5/2007 - portsecuritynews.com
The Transportation Security Administration's inspector general is currently
investigating an incident where a TSA official alerted screeners about a
covert security test involving screeners throughout the country. Covert
tests are routinely run by the government at airports to ensure that
security measures are sufficient to stop a terrorist from bringing something
dangerous onto an airplane. Alerting screeners to an undercover officer's
timing and appearance, as apparently happened in this case, would undermine
the intent of the undercover test.
A TSA official sent an e-mail to a dozen recipients, including airport
security staff, on April 28, 2006 alerting them that "several airport
authorities and airport police departments have recently received informal
notice" of security testing being carried out by TSA and the Federal
Aviation Administration.
TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said: "We are confident in the overall integrity
of the program. Tip-offs are not a systemic problem because we do so much
testing." However, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie
Thompson (D-MS) sent a letter last week (November 1) to TSA Administrator
Kip Hawley stating: "Any effort to undermine the integrity of covert testing
of TSA's screening checkpoints is unacceptable."
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