The TSA was built after 9/11 to keep us safe in the air. Instead of merely creating and enforcing new, strict guidelines and then ensuring the airlines would enforce them, the government decided to build a jobs program for people who couldn’t get a job pumping gas in New Jersey.
Apparently these people can’t even do that without screwing it up. As Townhall reports:
At least a dozen current and former TSA employees trafficked approximately 20 tons of cocaine through Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Purto Rico for nearly 20 years, according to a report from the Department of Justice.
The agents involved created an elaborate plan that smuggled suitcases of 8 to 15 kilograms of cocaine through TSA checkpoints, coordinating their efforts with other agents at the X-ray machines.
So far, six current and six former employees have been arrested and charged with crimes related to drug trafficking.
“These individuals were involved in a conspiracy to traffic massive quantities of illegal narcotics to the continental United States,” Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, said in a statement. “These arrests demonstrate the success of the AirTAT initiative, which has successfully allocated a dedicated group of state and federal law enforcement officers, whose mission is to ensure that our airports are not used in the drug traffickers’ illicit businesses.”
The agency has been a total failure. Aside from this catastrophe, TSA agents have been cited for forcing grandmothers to do degrading strip searches, hassling amputee veterans, and robbing passengers. They’ve been responsible for apprehending zero terrorists.
Now we know why.
AAN Staff
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