Federal agency staffed with criminals due to inadequate background checks
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn has released a
report documenting how the TSA is hiring “pedophiles and child
pornographers” to conduct pat downs.
“This report details highly disturbing cases where
pedophiles and child pornographers wearing federal law enforcement
uniforms are not only patting down unsuspecting travelers, but in many
cases stealing valuables from their bags. Enough is enough. It’s time
for Congress to step in and demand accountability from Administrator
Pistole,” Blackburn told NewsChannel5.
The report (PDF)
contains 50 examples of “the TSA’s most dangerous officers,” listing
innumerable examples of TSA agents caught engaged in criminal behavior,
from assault, to theft, to child pornography, to molesting children, in
cases documented from 2005 onwards.
Blackburn says the report illustrates how the federal
agency “needs to immediately remove themselves from the human resource
business,” adding that the decision to give TSA agents uniforms that
mimic law enforcement agencies despite officers having next to zero law
enforcement training was a critical mistake.
“TSOs and BDOs have zero federal law enforcement
training despite their federal law enforcement titles, uniforms and
metal badges. In many cases, TSOs and BDOs have less training than
security guards in most states. For example, in California, security
guards may receive permits to carry firearms, tear gas and batons. Due
to their lack of training and abuse of power, TSOs and BDOs should
return to the previous title and uniforms that were in use prior to the
TSA administrative reclassification in 2005,” states the report.
The report also emphasizes how the fact that TSA agents
are so routinely caught engaged in criminal behavior is by no means an
aberration but stems “from TSA’s hiring practices and insufficient use
of background checks.”
This includes the TSA’s recruitment policy which,
instead of representing an “intelligent risk-based organization,”
actually fails to conduct criminal and credit background checks on many
of its employees while advertising “for employment at the Washington
Reagan National Airport on pizza boxes and on advertisements above pumps
at discount gas stations in the D.C. area.”
As we have previously highlighted, the TSA displays
little regard for the character of those who employ to work in airport
security. Indeed, in one example a spoof caller phoned the federal agency
and pretended to be interested in a TSA job so he could act out his
sexual perversions. The caller was treated seriously by a TSA staffer on
the other end of the line.
When the spoof caller asked the TSA staffer if he could
fondle breasts, the staffer responded, “If that is what is required by
your job position – yes.”
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com.
He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular
fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
