administration warms that changes to the screening process are putting people at risk. this tsa whistle-blowerer is coming forward because he says the concerns he has raised over the last couple of years have not been addressed. he says the tsa officers on the front line are not to blame. these screening changes, he says, have come from tsa leadership. . what they re doing is injecting danger into the system. jay brainard is the top tsa official in his state and has been with the agency for 17 years. he says tsa is cutting corners on the screening process to
ordered dhs to investigate brainard s complaints, writing, there s a substantial likelihood that what was provided to osc is gross mismanagement and danger to the publy. my biggest fear is having something happen that costs american lives and i didn t step up and put a stop to it or at least try because it s going to happen. it s not a question of if. it s a question of when. we re long overdue for another attack. tsa did take action on one of brainard s complaints. he said they continued to use an ineffective test to determine if new hires were colorblind, a disqualifying medical condition. if you had something in a bag and somebody were colorblind, they wouldn t see the bomb if it were the only thing in the bag. according to this tsa memo,
machines, allowing some with medical devices to do their own self-pat down and something called blended lanes where they re mixed in one line, something that could confuse screeners. they now have to mentally switch themselves on and off with what s permitted, what s not permitted with every passenger. last time i checked, it was not stellar. reporter: last year the special counsel ordered dhs to investigate brainard s complaints, writing, there is a substantial likelihood that the information provided to osc discloses gross mismanagement and specific danger to public safety. my biggest fear is having something happen that costs american lives and i didn t step up and put a stop to it or at least try because it s going to happen. it s not a question of if. it s a question of when. we are long overdue for another attack. reporter: tsa did take action on one of brainard s kplanlts.
he said the changes have come from tsa leadership. more than 40 million u.s. airline passengers are expected to go through airport security checkpoints this holiday, but this tsa security director says you may not be as safe as you think. what they re doing is injecting danger into the system. reporter: jay brainard is the top tsa official in his state and has been with the agency for 17 years. he said tsa is cutting corners on the screening process to shorten wait times. one example, tsa reduced the sensitivity on all walkthrough metal detectors at airports across america. they re reducing the concentration of metal it would take to set off the alarm so you could speed up the lines and have fewer pat-downs. how do you know? because there s a memo that supports it. reporter: the memo came out in 2013 saying, quote
brainard has obtained a whistle-blower attorney in response to the complaints in our story. the head of tsa told me the whistle-blowers, i m quoting, provide a very valuable service, and it s our responsibility to fully investigate those concerns to see if they represent a valid security risk or not. but the tsa says they have not completed their assessment. rene marsh, cnn, washington. still to come, we ve got new national polling that suggestions the democrats lead over president trump is getting smaller. i ll ask our group of panelists why. so skin looks like this and you feel like this. aveeno® skin relief. get skin healthy™ and everyone has dad s eyebrows! we chose eleanor. it was great-grandma s name. so apparently, we come from a long line of haberdashers,