Airport Security Breach Over 500 Missing TSA Security Badges and Uniforms at LAX (Los Angeles)

KCAL Channel 9 Los Angeles ^ | 5 February 2007

[bd476]

There are over 500 badges and uniforms missing from Los Angeles International Airport's TSA division. According to the KCAL 9 report, no one knows what happened to the badges and uniforms.

KCAL 9 interviewed one LAX official who said that it is to be expected that there will be missing TSA uniforms and TSA badges because there are so many TSA employees employed at LAX.

KCAL 9 also showed a video of someone in a TSA security uniform walking through the metal detectors as the alarms went off. The person in the TSA uniform was waved through.

KCAL 9 said that employees of all airlines and LAX workers must be screened each time as they pass through the installed metal detectors but that anyone dressed in a TSA uniform with a TSA security badge is only required to go through once a day.

Then KCAL showed video of a voice disguised/face disguised person saying that if you're wearing a TSA uniform and badge, all that is required to avoid going through the once a day required metal detection screening process which is required of all other airport workers is to just tell them you already went through there earlier that day.

KCAL 9 said that the missing TSA uniforms and badges is the highest in the nation but then listed hundreds of TSA uniforms and security badges missing at airports throughout the USA.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The people in charge of protecting us from death are incompetent.

[bd476]

mdittmar wrote: "Could you provide an exact link to this story please,I can't locate it from the link you provided. Thanks"

This story was not in print on the KCAL 9 television site when I posted this. The story was typed as I heard it on the news.

KCAL 9 had billed the on-air report as an exclusive story with an attached undercover investigation.

However, if you will read Post #3 here and Post #7 here you will have confirmation that there have been similar reports of missing TSA security badges and uniforms at airports throughout the USA.

[mdittmar]

Thanks for the link.

I'm going to forward it to DHS just for fun;)

[bd476]

Thanks Ernest. For some reason the video doesn't play on my computer.

[John Jorsett]

KCAL 9 interviewed one LAX official who said that it is to be expected that there will be missing TSA uniforms and TSA badges because there are so many TSA employees employed at LAX.

Nice attitude. "Pfft. This is minor stuff. If we'd found some Lite Brites with menacing illuminated cartoon characters, that'd be a different matter."

[bd476]

Leftism is Mentally Deranged wrote: "The people in charge of protecting us from death are incompetent."

That sure seems to be the case.

[Centurion2000]

There are over 500 badges and uniforms missing from Los Angeles International Airport's TSA division. According to the KCAL 9 report, no one knows what happened to the badges and uniforms.

I'll tell you what happened. Some TSA goon just sold them to parties unknown. Check the accounts of the TSA folks, check for a murder of a TSA agent recently.

TSA = Union Autoworker dedication for airline safety.

[bd476]

John Jorsett wrote: "Nice attitude. 'Pfft. This is minor stuff. If we'd found some Lite Brites with menacing illuminated cartoon characters, that'd be a different matter.' "

LOL!

[Centurion2000]

I'll give you a for instance: as recently as 10 years ago (and probably long before that), everyone knew that you could use liquid explosives to blow up an airplane. In fact, the US foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an airplane using explosives disguised as ordinary liquids. But there wasn't a need to ban liquids from airplanes because they weren't perceived as dangerous.

If that's the case they shouldn't let any powders on the planes either. I can think of a few that will take an airliner down.

[Deguello]

Are there any of the original TSA type badges around?

Federal Aviation Transportation Administrative Services (FATAS)

[bd476]

Centurion2000 wrote: "I'll tell you what happened. Some TSA goon just sold them to parties unknown. Check the accounts of the TSA folks, check for a murder of a TSA agent recently.

TSA = Union Autoworker dedication for airline safety."

"TSA = Union Autoworker dedication for airline safety."

Bingo.

[bd476]

dinoparty wrote: "They need to hire some security professionals to guard their items. Oh, wait a minute, they ARE security professionals! Oh, never mind, problem solved!"

They are professional, they work at the airport but somehow the word security doesn't seem to fit their job description.

[bd476]

LOL! Perfect acronym.

[geopyg]

How about a non-union PRIVATE security firm with a competitive bid and the first time there is a mess-up the company is fired?

[Deguello]

If you can find the thread, that was the agency's original name for one single day until the acronym was pointed out.

[CyberAnt]

Oh great! Is this where the next attack is going to be ..??