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boutons_deux
11-12-2017, 06:40 PM
screeners, their equipment or their procedures failed more than half the time, according to a source familiar with the classified report.

if the failure rate was 80 percent, the response was, "You are in the ballpark."

The news of the failure comes two years after ABC News reported (http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881) that secret teams from the DHS found that the TSA failed 95 percent of the time to stop inspectors from smuggling weapons or explosive materials through screening.

Viper teams, specially trained Homeland Security units that use canines to secure transportation facilities, are being cut from 31 to eight.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-operation-us-airports/story?id=51022188