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When Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced plans Sunday to replace private airport screeners who check passenger IDs with federal workers, an expansion of the government screener takeover after 9/11 that created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Frank Argenbright, Jr., saw his livelihood threatened - yet again...
...this spring, along with an internal 2005 Homeland study of screeners, back up Argenbright's overall assesment of screeners' performance, noting that in one instance planted weapons got past screeners in all 21 airports tested. The reports also state screeners are not getting all of the TSA-mandated training and often have criminal backgrounds, and that starting salaries of $24,000 fail to retain employees...
...Yolanda Clark of the TSA calls Argenbright's theory "interesting. But there are all sorts of theories," she says. "This agency was set up after 9/11 to serve our country. I don't think there's much more to say than that...
...Clark added that the agency could not supply the demographic makeup of some 43,000 TSA screeners on duty today. The reason to replace ID checkers would be "using human technology, if you will," says Clark, "to search for behavioral stress levels." New TSA ID screeners, she says, would receive psychological training on how to question passengers, akin to how Israel's El Al airline operates. (Chertoff also said this week that current TSA screeners will receive 38 hours of training in the detection of "detonators and modern types of explosives...
...themselves. "You're just going 'wah, wah' when you put the thing over the soda!" Black protests, as the guard played by Gaffigan adjusts his rubber gloves and threatens, "Just give me the word, Wendy." Now, of course, you try to sneak a bottle of pop past the TSA and they'll stun-gun the crap...