TSA Antics 3.0 - SIDA given to felon

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http://www2.wsls.com/sls/news/state...rt_to_give_security_clearance_to_felon/79015/

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration insisted that Richmond International Airport issue its highest-level security clearance to a TSA security officer with a felony conviction for robbery.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I go through umpteen background checks, fingerprinting, etc., and they hire and FORCE upon us a convicted felon in a SIDA area?!?!

Security threatre, coming soon to a city near you!
 
cencal83406 said:
http://www2.wsls.com/sls/news/state...rt_to_give_security_clearance_to_felon/79015/



ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I go through umpteen background checks, fingerprinting, etc., and they hire and FORCE upon us a convicted felon in a SIDA area?!?!

Security threatre, coming soon to a city near you!
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He did his time. Maybe they checked his background and his behavior while incarcerated and decided to give the guy a chance..

or they could be idiots, I didn't read the article.
 
The problem I have with this is that it sets precedent. Granted the guy did his time, but he still committed a felonious act, and should exclude you from a security related field, aka SIDA. By giving a felon here the badge, somewhere else this will occur, and the whole background check would be meaningless.

But again, I have known a few customs officers working over here off the boat for a few weeks, no history, so they get a clean bill of health on the security check. Ohh well.
 
contactground.9 said:
He did his time. Maybe they checked his background and his behavior while incarcerated and decided to give the guy a chance..

or they could be idiots, I didn't read the article.
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:yeahthat:

Though it still sounds like he is a little misguided, working for the TSA and all...
 
They'll give a felon a security clearance with a robbery conviction, but pull the clearance of a female FAM that made a $100 dollar boo-boo on her travel voucher. Only in the TSA
 
I kind of feel bad for TSA. Lately, they've just been getting truckloads of bad press.

*ducks from all the angry, TSA-hating JCers*

;)
 
They're not "universally" bad.

I changed my opinion after I met some great people that were working for the TSA in order to get the hell out and start flying. The "Lifers" can be a pain in the rump, but there's a surprising number of people who work for the TSA that want the hell out.
 
Doug Taylor said:
They're not "universally" bad.

I changed my opinion after I met some great people that were working for the TSA in order to get the hell out and start flying. The "Lifers" can be a pain in the rump, but there's a surprising number of people who work for the TSA that want the hell out.
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I feel incredibly comfortable knowing that most of the people that are in charge of airline security want the hell out. Only because i dont fly the airlines ;)
 
I know of people who had felonies and served their time and have SFO SIDAs. Make a mistake, serve your time, stay clean for 10 years, don't see the issue there depending on the felony.
 
What I would like to know, is why he is even out of prison, let alone working for the TSA. Less than a 10 yr sentence for robbery. Quite a lenient sentence if you ask me. He should still be behind bars.
 
Doug Taylor said:
but there's a surprising number of people who work for the TSA that want the hell out.
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That in a nutshell sums up the problem with the TSA. It sounds like the talented ones want out.

That means that there is a serious morale problem at the organization. When that happens, the organization is screwed. Organizations where people dread coming to work are not organizations that are successful.

But hey, Aunt Bessie thinks they're making us safer, so it's all good.
 
I'm getting to the point where I look at this stuff and I just shake my head and say we get the security theater we deserve. We elected the bafoons that gave us this horribly designed agency. And time and time again we as a people stand by and do nothing (except moan about it on internet forums) as this horribly designed agency does utterly bafoonish things that don't increase security at all and make the entire industry worse off in the process. And the sad part is I believe it will only get worse and this agency as we know it will never go away.


TSA: Keeping people with no earthly intention of committing acts of terrorism from committing acts of terrorism since 2001. That's a record anyone can be proud of. :sarcasm:
 
All of these people that are unemployed in they country and they need to go hire an ex-con and get more bad press? These guys are just asking for it at this point.
 
For those of you who think a convicted felon has "learned his lesson".... why is it that a convicted felon, regardless of lesson learned, loses his American right to vote?
 
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