TSA

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They now say 73 TSA agents have ties to terrorism! Wow looks like we are doing all we can to help them out. Getting hard to tell who this admin. likes best, us or them?

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The TSA was created after 9/11 because before that, private (sometimes minimum wage type jobs) companies handled airport security as independently hired by airlines. The belief was that actual law enforcement that was trained in detaining and investigating would be better than what in reality was not much more than mall cops. To the TSA screeners were born. 

The problem is that they aren't cops (I am talking about the Security Officers or TSO's) and are the same people as before under private security but now with a better salary and benefits. The original TSO's had white uniforms but they were changed to blue uniforms to make them look like police officers.... to the complaint of some police agencies. 

The federal government has stepped in and created a new position that appears to be little better than the old ones under private security.... but at a much greater cost to the taxpayers. 

I don't blame the people that take those higher paying jobs and benefits or their lack of training. The way the system was set up, like many federal programs, is bloated and likely concentrates in the wrong areas, probably from political correctness.