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TSA to Clear 10000 Workers for Access to Classified Intelligence

Wanna bet this TSA worker gets access to classified intel?

Ain't nothing wrong with that, huh?

The Transportation Security Administration plans to clear 10,000 workers for access to secret intelligence, Fox News has learned. Staff at the Transportation ...

UPDATE - What's wrong with TSA clearing 10k workers for access to classified intelligence? Let's start with asking who/how are these 10k TSA workers going to be vetted? Why, should I ask? Here's a few reminders:

* Newark Airport's Security Cameras Were Broken - Airport Owns the Cameras but Says the TSA is Supposed to Report Them Broken

* TSA worker moved to desk duty after being caught sleeping on the job at LaGuardia

* Arrested TSA worker asked girl to be his ’sex slave’

*TSA worker loses job after prank on passenger

*TSA forces Richmond airport to issue access badge to convicted felon

*TSA Supervisors ridicule women, gays and minorities on white board

*Recall that it was the same boneheads who
leaked TSA Security Manual to internet?


*And recall the chief bonehead, Napolitano, met with ethnic leaders to formulate security policy in a more sensitive manner

Forgive me if I get concerned that 'classified intell' is going to be shared with these numbskulls.


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Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary to discuss aviation security with Mexico
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to Mexico City to discuss security tactics in global aviation, the DHS announced Friday.

Secretary Napolitano will meet her North, Central and South American and Caribbean counterparts and officials from the International Civil Aviation Organization after Mexico’s Interior Secretary Fernando Francisco Gomez Mont’s invitation.

Her trip is scheduled to take place next week, from February 16 to 18 and is the second, after visiting Toledo, Spain, in a series of major international meetings focused on the development of consensus on strengthening global aviation security, categorizing specific procedures that nations can take individually and collectively to protect all passengers.

Secretary Napolitano has shown constant commitment to reinforcing coordination with international colleagues to implement stronger and more effective measures to protect the integrity of the global aviation network.

In Mexico, she also plans to discuss topics regarding transnational threats and streamlining legitimate travel and trade with top Mexican officials.

After Secretary Napolitano’s trip to Spain, the United States and the European Union declared a joint effort to strengthen the international civil aviation system through enhanced information collection and sharing, cooperation on technological development, and modernized aviation security standards.

Federal security chief at LAX unexpectedly steps down

". . .The resignation follows the arrest in January of three TSA employees in connection with an investigation into counterfeited parking passes at an LAX employee parking lot. During the probe, investigators found a videotape that allegedly showed TSA employees using illegal drugs. . . ."

TSA officials said this week they expect to issue a revised plan this fall that will significantly reduce from 15,000 the number of U.S.-registered general-aviation aircraft subjected to tougher rules. Also, instead of mandating that all passengers aboard private planes be checked against terrorist watch lists, name checks in many cases could be left to the discretion of pilots, they said. link

In essence, under the guidance of Napolitano, Private Jet Travel Will Remain TSA-Free and LAX, a documented terrorist target, remains without a "security director" .


“It’s compounded by the fact that TSA has been without a leader on the national level for 13 months.”McClain said.