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Article: Airport insecurity; With a whopping 60 percent of fake bomb materials getting by screeners during a recent test, how long before a legitimate threat passes through Chicago?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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Security screeners at O'Hare Airport missed about 60 percent of
hidden bomb materials carried through by undercover agents posing as
passengers, according to a classified report.
At Los Angeles International Airport, the numbers were even worse
-- 75 percent of simulated explosives and bomb parts carried by
Transportation Security Administration testers were missed by
screeners, according to the report obtained by USA Today.
"That's a huge cause for concern," said Clark Kent Ervin, the
Homeland Security Department's former inspector general.
Screeners' inability to find bombs could encourage terrorists to
try to bring them on airplanes, Ervin said, and points to the need
for more ...
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