Love that headline. A new problem discovered at the TSA is a mere "crack" in the process. Nothing to worry about. The TSA assures us the public is safe so I'm comfortable with that.

By now everyone knows how poorly the TSA did on a recent security check. How about in other areas?

"The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General on Monday dropped a report that reveals cracks in the Transportation Security Administration's process for vetting aviation workers.

The report revealed that while the TSA's terrorism screening process was "generally effective," the TSA failed to identify 73 active aviation workers with links to terrorism and lacked "effective controls" to keep prospective employees with criminal histories and illegal status from getting a job at airports in the U.S.

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The 73 individuals identified in the latest report "were employed by major airlines, airport vendors, and other employers," but the TSA failed to identify any link to terrorism during vetting because of gaps in access to the interagency terrorism watchlist database.

The individuals represented "a potential transportation security threat," according to the Homeland Security Department's inspector general report.

"This occurred because TSA is not authorized under current interagency watchlisting policy to receive certain terrorism-related category codes" as part of their vetting process, the report explained. The redacted report did not disclose what category codes were excluded from TSA's vetting process.

The TSA is now coordinating with DHS to ensure it has access to all necessary terrorism watchlist information.

When it came to the criminal vetting process, the TSA relied on airports and airlines to carry out criminal background checks, but did not sufficiently oversee or verify the process, according to the DHS Office of the Inspector General's report."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/08/politics/t...ures/index.html

73 known cases is not a great number when one considers how many people are employed by the TSA, but it only takes one to bring down an airplane with hundreds aboard. According to the latest figures I could find the TSA has a budget of $7.6 BILLION. Does anybody in DC give a flip as to how incompetent and useless this organization is, and that includes the Republicans who are always out to lunch?

Oh, well, back to patting down grandma and hoping to see some woman semi-naked on the body scans.

No way! Really?