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LAX Screeners Miss 75 Percent Of Fake Bombs
LOS ANGELES -- A Transportation Security Administration report says that screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75 percent of simulated explosives and bomb parts that undercover TSA agents hid in clothing or carry-on bags during tests.
Between 2005 and 2006, about 70 tests were conducted at LAX by the TSA, according to the classified January 2007 report obtained by USA Today.
In addition to LAX, about 75 tests were conducted at Chicago O'Hare International Airport and 145 at the San Francisco International Airport.
Screeners missed about 60 percent of items at O'Hare, according to the report.
The report said that SFO screeners, who work for a private company instead of the TSA, missed about 20 percent.
The TSA said the 75 percent failure rate does not tell the whole story and during some tests, screeners had to find a bomb part the size of a pen cap.
The TSA said undercover agents posing as passengers used the following contraband:
Bomb residue on shoelaces
Detonator and explosives hidden in briefcase lining
Inert explosives inside CD players
Fake dynamite and timer in toiletry kit
Phony plastic explosive and battery inside hollowed-out book
Inert explosives and detonator in back support concealed by clothing
Nico Melendez of the TSA said that a high failure rate is actually a good thing in the long run, KNBC's Natasha Ghoneim reported.
"The tests that we run on our people, the covert tests, are designed to identify our failures, find our shortcomings, to make our people better," Melendez said.
Melendez said that in the last four years, the threats have shifted from concealed weapons to homemade bombs. Screeners who missed items received more training, he said.
We don't think it would be valuable for the public, or to us, if we got a 100 percent on every test, because then there'd be nowhere to go," Melendez said.
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