Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports

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ABC News:

JUSTIN FISHEL, PIERRE THOMAS, MIKE LEVINE, JACK DATE

May 1 2015

 

An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has learned.

 

The series of tests were conducted by Homeland Security Red Teams who pose as passengers, setting out to beat the system.

 

According to officials briefed on the results of a recent Homeland Security Inspector General’s report, TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints.

 

In one test an undercover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm at a magnetometer, but TSA screeners failed to detect a fake explosive device that was taped to his back during a follow-on pat down.

 

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