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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...
...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...
...Older machines used to examine liquids were so large that they were generally anchored to labs. But given the portability of this 3.5-pound tool, the TSA could quickly deploy it in airports nationwide. The gadget is simple enough to use that airport screeners and security officials with just several hours of training could monitor suspicious materials in transit. In its latest iteration, the FirstDefender can identify 2,500 liquid and solid substances. The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center issued a recent assessment of the new handheld as an effective portable tool in detecting dangerous substances, including sarin...
...liquid explosive in an innocuous bottle are slim - that's why Israel's Ben Gurion airport has a laboratory in the basement to conduct instant tests of liquids found on suspect passengers. If the U.S. system lacks sufficient technology to detect liquid explosives, and if it relies on the TSA screeners to ID possible terrorists, it is, at best, a wire mesh fence...