Fri, Nov 17, 2006
Firm Tracked Undercover Agents
Here's a surefire way to improve
your job performance stats... it appears screeners at San Francisco
International have been getting a heads up from the Transportation
Security Administration before security inspections.
San Francisco television station KVSU-2 reports undercover
agents were checking to see how well screeners detected weapons and
bombs. SFO uses private security firm Covenant Aviation Security,
with special congressional approval.
A former Covenant employee told investigators in February 2005
the firm's management was warned ahead of time about the
inspections, allowing them to track undercover testers as they made
their way through the airport. The Associated Press obtained a copy
of a government report confirming those allegations.
The company used surveillance cameras to track the undercover
agents, and warned screeners as they approached checkpoints. Those
inspections occurred between August of 2003 and May 2004, according
to the TSA inspector general.
The inspector general's office also found one security breach at
SFO that TSA officials did not report... but found no evidence of
malicious intent in the oversight.
And the aftermath? Covenant management ordered the practice oof
monitoring inspectors stopped... and the TSA says that's good
enough for them.
"We've taken the measures necessary to ensure something like
this can never happen again," said TSA spokesman Nico Melendez.
In related news... the TSA renewed Covenant's contract to watch
over SFO last month.
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