Report blasts TSA air cargo security

Source: USA Today

The Transportation Security Administration's program for keeping bombs out of airplane cargo holds is riddled with holes that leave passenger planes vulnerable to attack, a government investigation shows.

The TSA has too few cargo inspectors, an ineffective database to track violations and "vague regulations" for screening cargo being put on passenger planes, the Homeland Security Department inspector general said in a report released Thursday.

"The report is a blistering, scalding indictment of TSA," said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., a leading advocate for stronger cargo security.

Inspector General Richard Skinner said the TSA system "increases the opportunities (to put) explosives, incendiaries and other dangerous devices on passenger aircraft."



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And that's exactly what the bush cabal is hoping for. As they themselves have said, we're only "one bomb away" from having a "military government." Then bush can put on his epaulets.