US airports are still vulnerable for attack so many years after new government mandates after Sept 11. So now passengers have to not only worry about disgruntled pilots, flight attendants or unruly passengers, we gotta worry about baggage handlers and TSA agents that aren’t fully vetted. Is it safe enough to take a bus to Cancun this year – PB/TK
Increasing Concern About ‘Insider Threats’ at US Airports: Gov’t Report – By ERIN DOOLEY Feb 6, 2017, 6:21 PM ET
There is an increasing concern that America’s airports are vulnerable to “insider threats” by would-be “lone wolf” attackers with access to secure areas, according to a new report by the House Homeland Security Committee.
“America’s airports and aircraft remain vulnerable to attack and exploitation by nefarious individuals,” the report says. “Current security standards would likely fail to prevent a determined adversary with insider access from causing harm to an airport or aircraft.”
Most of the 900,000 people who work at airports across the country can bypass normal security screening on a regular basis, according to the committee. Only three airports — Miami, Orlando, and Atlanta International -– screen 100 percent of employees (and their baggage) before allowing them to enter the airport’s secure areas.
Many of the rest rely on scattered random screening and credentialing, exposing worrisome “security flaws” that could be exploited in “‘lone wolf’ attacks being inspired by terrorist groups like ISIS,” says the report.
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