I wonder if this is going to make it up on the TSA blog?
CBS Atlanta reports that three employees of the Transportation Security Administration and Delta Airlines were recently charged in relation to conspiring and attempting to transport cocaine through Atlanta‘s airport and into New York. Apparently they had a system worked out where the TSA officer would let the smuggler through security without being checked and the Delta employee would transport the contraband.
Little did they know that the DEA was behind the operation and that they would be busted.
That’s not really the point though– anyone foolish enough to attempt smuggling drugs regularly through an airport is going to get caught eventually. The real problem is that the system can be broken with a couple of bad apples. If the TSA keeps hiring idiots like this to run our nation’s security checkpoints, what do they expect to happen? What if they weren’t smuggling drugs but were smuggling bombs?
We need to start screening our security screeners a little bit better.