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TSA’s Own Covert Testing Showed Failures, DHS IG Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 8th, 2015

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TSA’s Own Covert Testing Showed Failures, DHS IG Says

DHS Inspector General John Roth

Spectacular failure rates of airport checkpoint security equipment during covert testing by Homeland Security auditors was not a surprise to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which operates the screening equipment, because the agency’s own internal testing showed similar results, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) said on Thursday.“The recent round of covert testing was not a surprise to us and it was not a surprise to TSA,” John Roth told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation…

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