It. Doug is live from Reagan National airport in washington with more. Of all the troubles that have plagued the gsa since its inception after 9 11 and is likely to hit as hard as this. Is internal study found groups of testers who go through screening masked as passengers carrying contraband including fake explosives and guns got through security 67 out of 70 times announcing to a failure rate of 95 almost total failure. With an annual budget of 7 billion a Year American taxpayers can rightly consider the gsa to be wasting a lot of money. Not much better than was before 9 11 because this is meant to be a deterrent. Is not the great wall of china. It wont stop the next 911. After this was leaked to the press secretary of Homeland Security j johnson announced several changes. He is reassigning the acting administrator to a new job, to immediately confirm the psa administrative nominee, assigned to the new job. Announced a 6 point plan of changes which will be taking effect immediately i
The dead man was a terror suspect who had been under surveillance. The police say that when they attempted to question him today, he came at them with a knife and they shot him. More now from Homeland Security correspondent jeff pegues. Reporter this is the knife investigators say usaama rahim brandished when confronted by f. B. I. Agents and Boston Police this morning. Two officers tried to stop rahim before he got on a city bus. When they approached him, police say rahim pulled the knife and was shot. We believe he was a threat. Reporter Boston Police commissioner William Evans says there is Surveillance Video of the shooting. The officers are retreating and they kept retreating verbally giving commands to drop the weapon, drop the weapon. And at some point, the individual proximity came close that the officers were in danger. Reporter Law Enforcement Officials Say that rahim, who was 26 years old, had been on investigators radar for several months and had been under 24 hour surveill
70 attempts to smuggle a mock weapon through, they were able to 67 tiles. 95 failure rate is astonishing failure. The issue is is this mechanical failure with equipment, personnel or training issue, complacent say issue . Any of us that have gone through check points wonder at what point do your eyes glaze over if doing that job and you dont Pay Attention . Is it all of the above or Management Issues as well . Thats what the tsa is dealing with. Homeland security requiring immediate changes as it relates to supervisors, training, checking and maintaining the equipment. Theyre recognizing they have to do a a top to bottom review of their personnel and of their procedures following this report. They take our water away yet theyre letting bombs and weapons through. When i talked to former tsa chief about that he would say keep in mind in his words, those doing probing are what he calls super terrorists. They work for homeland security. They know the vulnerabilityies that airports and tsa
Seem like members of this joint Terrorism Task force were preparing to make arrests, certainly arrest this man, and thats when he pulled the knife. So were waiting to hear more details. It does seem like theres more to this than weve been told so far and were following it very closely, tamron. Seems theres more information to be found out. Pete, i know youll update it if you get updates. Thank you very much. Also developing now, a major shakeup at the tsa this morning amid new concerns about airport safety. That after a scathing report found tsa screeners at dozens of the nations busiest airports failed nearly every time to detect mock weapons which undercover agents tried to smuggle past them. The failure rate if you can believe this 95 . And as a result acting tsa administrator Melvin Carraway on the job since january, has resigned last night. And he was reassigned excuse me by Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson. Smuggled weapons in 67 out of 70 attempt attempts. In one case an
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