TSA Dodges Congressional Investigation of Breach
Osama bin Laden has approximately 53 half-siblings. Last week, ABC reported that 12 of them have FAA pilot’s licenses, making them “eligible to fly aircraft anywhere in the United States.”
While this is indeed an eye-opener of a headline, Osama bin Laden’s high-profile siblings and the FAA are a small concern compared to the threat posed by thousands of would-be foreign pilots routinely granted pilot licenses thanks to the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA).
Last year, in my Pajamas Media article “Flight School Fiasco: No Lessons Learned After 9/11,” I wrote that the TSA, not the FAA, has the final say on who gets to fly airplanes in the United States — including bin Ladens. This remains true today. TSA is in charge of the Alien Flight Student Program, which insiders say is a disaster waiting to happen.
Between 2002 and 2008, as many as 8,000 foreigners had been granted their pilot’s license without having been properly vetted. Said TSA official Richard A. Horn in 2005:
Thousands of aliens, some of whom may very well pose a threat to this country, are taking flight lessons, being granted FAA certifications and are flying planes.
Outraged by this news when it broke a year ago, Senator Charles Schumer called for an audit of TSA. No comprehensive audit happened. According to interviews with Homeland Security employees, the TSA’s vetting process has not changed.
One year later, the TSA continues to play Russian roulette with the nation’s safety and security on airplanes. The security holes keep getting bigger.
Last week, I wrote that the public recently learned that the TSA had given al-Qaeda its playbook after a subcontractor inadvertently posted the agency’s most sensitive security document online. The 93-page document was a veritable handbook on how to beat airport security.
Most gov’t. bureaucracies are hopelessly incompetent so this should surprise no one. Anything the gov’t. touches turns to sh*t which, of course, is the best argument for small gov’t. You could fire half the gov’t. and it would improve efficiency & save an awful lot of money.
Rarely is such incompetence merely a happenstance of coincidence. In other words, the TSA has its own agenda, that which is decidedly not in the US interest.
US agencies have many INFILTRATORS embedded within their ranks, and no one knows more about this subject than Paul Sperry.Clearly he is the go to person on this explosive subject.
Paul, please explore this subject further, many lives hang in the balance. Clearly official Washington is not equipped to deal with these dangers.
There is no dodging… There needs to be a thorough investigation…
Didnt the TSA cover up a new “flying Imans” story about a US airways flight I beleive out of Houston the week before Thanksgiving? Something about 12-14 moslems who refused to turn off cell phones and trying to intimidate stewardesses? Ray Stevens has it right. Only we the people are capable of dealing with these. Our institutions are at best corrupt and imcompetent, more likely uncaring and anti-american. Too many judges are commie ideologues. Our FBI and CIA are filled with islamic sympathizers. The fight is coming folks,you better be ready.
Ok, so Bin Laden has a bunch of siblings with pilots licenses. And how many attacks have there been recently by Bin Laden’s? I mean, yeah, I get it, the TSA is a completely inept, incompetent government agency–which is pretty much par for the course for government agencies. But it is totally irrelevant how competent they are; either the terrorists are even less competent than the TSA or, maybe, just maybe, no one is that interested in blowing up planes or flying them into buildings. That’s just a fact people. It’s not hard at all to overcome TSA’s security measures. For an international terrorist organization with millions of dollars, it wouldn’t be hard to infiltrate TSA and actually get people on the inside making it much easier to commit terror. If you really hated America that is what you would do. The TSA isn’t good enough to prevent such infiltration–every part of the US government has been infiltrated at one time or another by foreign governments and organized crime, so these terrorists could do it too. So where are these terrorists? I am to believe that our incompetent government agencies are really that successful in combating them? That’s garbage.
You people are worried about the boogeyman from abroad but let communists take over the US government in broad daylight. Seriously, why would anyone bother to attack a nation as hellbent on national suicide as we are? Forget about protecting us on planes, how about someone protect us from Washington? Clearly the people we’re fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq are well trained and sophisticated–if they actually came over to the US (which is trivially easy through our porous borders), it would be easy for them to commit all sorts of mayhem all the time here. They’re not. They’re concerned mostly with their own crappy countries, not ours. Maybe we ought to get more concerned with our country, stop worrying about people who are either too incompetent or too disinterested in attacking us, and worry about the people who are very clear and open about their desire to destroy this country–e.g. most of Congress and the Executive branch. Again, if you need more proof, look at Israel: that is what life looks like when you have real terrorists who are really interested in attacking you. Homeland Security and TSA are not what stands between us and Hezbollah taking up residence in Mexico.
But hey, I suppose if we just completely give into our communist masters in Washington maybe they’ll keep us even safer?
Annie
The TSA does not issue pilots licenses. They provide background checks and monitor foreign nationals that apply for them. Only one of the 12 certificate holders had been granted a license since 9/11, the rest were long time certificate holders granted in the 1970′s and 1980′s, when there was very little scrutiny. I think it wise that someone monitor all flight activity of foreign nationals, and I hope that is being done.
#1 Terry hit the nail on the head. How many examples do we need of government fraud, ineptitude and waste? The only things government does sort of OK, they do at 10 times the reasonable cost (i.e. armed services). Both health care and cap and trade are looming as unmitigated disasters that will dramatically lower the standard of living of everyone except bloated government people and the private sector toadies who go along for the ride. And almost half of us are happy about this !?.
And anyway, when did it become constitutional for the majority party to actively expand government based on their ideology? To me the essence of our country is that the things a person can be forced to do and the laws and regulations a person can be forced to obey must be kept to a minimum of essential things that almost everyone agrees upon. We need to let politicos and their supporters know – both liberal and conservative – that they must stop their social engineering and let the free market work. I am sorry if you don’t like something or think it is unfair. Change your own actions and go convince other people to act differently if you want to – but stop looking to government to make the rest of us go along.
When is the American public going to wake up and understand that the TSA does absolutely nothing to secure our well being? The airport screening is a perfect example to the absolute stupidity of this organization. Anyone with a lick of sense could get weapons and explosives on an airplane with little effort. With state funding and access to proper technicology there is nothing the would be terrorist could not accomplish. The price we pay is the subjegation of our rights, specifically the 4th amendment. Thus, in a sense the terrorist have won. We need to scrap this constant war against the citizens of the US and direct our efforts at Islam. Why do we tolerate this so called religion?
http://oldnfo.blogspot.com/2009/11/testing-testing.html
Monday, November 30, 2009
Testing… testing…
This has been a subject of discussion amongst a few of us for a couple of weeks. The person’s account below is known to three of our group, and he is NOT a whiner or complainer…
He’s an ex-Navy diver, working for a government organization; he has travelled extensively world-wide. This is his account of what happened on Flight 297 on the taxiway and at the gate in Atlanta…
One week ago, I went to Ohio on business and to see my father. On Tuesday, November the 17th, I returned home. If you read the papers the 18th you may have seen a blurb where a AirTran flight was cancelled from Atlanta to Houston due to a man who refused to get off of his cell phone before takeoff. It was on Fox.
This was NOT what happened.
I was in 1st class coming home. 11 Muslim men got on the plane in full attire. 2 sat in 1st class and the rest peppered themselves throughout the plane all the way to the back. As the plane taxied to the runway the stewardesses gave the safety spiel we are all so familiar with. At that time, one of the men got on his cell and called one of his companions in the back and proceeded to talk on the phone in Arabic very loudly and very aggressively. This took the 1st stewardess out of the picture for she repeatedly told the man that cell phones were not permitted at the time. He ignored her as if she was not there.
The 2nd man who answered the phone did the same and this took out the 2nd stewardess. In the back of the plane at this time, 2 younger Muslims, one in the back, isle, and one in front of him, window, began to show footage of a porno they had taped the night before, and were very loud about it. Now….they are only permitted to do this prior to Jihad. If a Muslim man goes into a strip club, he has to view the woman via mirror with his back to her. (don’t ask me….I don’t make the rules, but I’ve studied). The 3rd stewardess informed them that they were not to have electronic devices on at this time. To which one of the men said “shut up infidel dog!” She went to take the camcorder and he began to scream in her face in Arabic. At that exact moment, all 11 of them got up and started to walk the cabin. This is where I had had enough! I got up and started to the back where I heard a voice behind me from another Texan twice my size say “I got your back.” I grabbed the man who had been on the phone by the arm and said “you WILL go sit down or you Will be thrown from this plane!” As I “led” him around me to take his seat, the fellow Texan grabbed him by the back of his neck and his waist and headed out with him. I then grabbed the 2nd man and said, “You WILL do the same!” He protested but adrenaline was flowing now and he was going to go. As I escorted him forward the plane doors open and 3 TSA agents and 4 police officers entered. Me and my new Texan friend were told to cease and desist for they had this under control. I was happy to oblige actually. There was some commotion in the back, but within moments, all 11 were escorted off the plane. They then unloaded their luggage.
We talked about the occurrence and were in disbelief that it had happen, when suddenly, the door open again and on walked all 11!! Stone faced, eyes front and robotic (the only way I can describe it). The stewardess from the back had been in tears and when she saw this, she was having NONE of it! Being that I was up front, I heard and saw the whole ordeal. She told the TSA agent there was NO WAY she was staying on the plane with these men. The agent told her they had searched them and were going to go through their luggage with a fine tooth comb and that they were allowed to proceed to Houston. The captain and co-captain came out and told the agent “we and our crew will not fly this plane!” After a word or two, the entire crew, luggage in tow, left the plane. 5 minutes later, the cabin door opened again and a whole new crew walked on.
Again…..this is where I had had enough!!! I got up and asked “What the hell is going on!?!?” I was told to take my seat. They were sorry for the delay and I would be home shortly. I said “I’m getting off this plane”. The stewardess sternly told me that she could not allow me to get off. (now I’m mad!) I said “I am a grown man who bought this ticket, who’s time is mine with a family at home and I am going through that door, or I’m going through that door with you under my arm!! But I am going through that door!!” And I heard a voice behind me say “so am I”. Then everyone behind us started to get up and say the same. Within 2 minutes, I was walking off that plane where I was met with more agents who asked me to write a statement. I had 5 hours to kill at this point so why the hell not. Due to the amount of people who got off that flight, it was cancelled. I was supposed to be in Houston at 6pm. I got here at 12:30am.
Look up the date. Flight 297 Atlanta to Houston.
If this wasn’t a dry run, I don’t know what one is. They wanted to see how TSA would handle it, how the crew would handle it, and how the passengers would handle it.
I’m telling this to you because I want you to know….
The threat is real. I saw it with my own eyes….
-Tedd
re 9: according to the airline the person that made the report wasn’t even on the plane, in any event it didn’t happen, it’s a fictitious account.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/flight297.asp
Hmm.
I’d starting asking a lot more questions if they weren’t letting Congress see documents.
That makes me think there are even more embarrassing things TSA is trying to hide.
annie jacobson: first of all Senator Schumer and Senator Lieberman have mistaken US Senate with Israeli Keneset. they should be serving in the Isralei Keneset and just like you are muslim hating blacks whose alliegence is not to the Unted States. it is to Israle. we just don’t go and investigate TSA for the sake of Israelis. I am tired of the crying Israelis.
#2 INFILTRATORS: I would not throw rock if I lived in a glass house. Remmeber Jonathon Pollard? he too sold our country to the Israeli government. Thank god there is a justice system here… he is rooting in the same jail as Madoff!!!
MR: Please remember to take your meds!
People who hate all jews should remember that Jesus Christ is a jew. Why will you hate your creator and savior?
To the 63 million moral morons who elected usurpabama, “ain’t you ‘shamed, you sleepyheads?”
#13 White Tiger: look sonny, I am not anti semite or anti jews. nor am I fond of Moses, Jesus or Mohamad. and for you to call 63 million people moron only shows me that you are a high scholl drop out some where in mid west.. Look : I know you don’t like black people but get use to the fact this guy will be running the show for the next 7 years… and you will still be moaning ang groaning…