Soft underbelly of US Airport security exposed – 95% fake weapons go undetected

Following the 9/11 terror strikes on the Twin Towers and the death of thousands of innocents and in order to prevent another similar incident, the United States had geared up and augmented its security measures at airports. However, checkpoint screeners did not detect mock explosives and weapons in 95% of tests carried out by under agents who had passed though the security barriers posing as passengers. It seems the agents managed to smuggle through banned weapons in 67 of 70 tests at dozens of airports.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 2 June 2015.

As a result, the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the US government agency in charge of airport security, has been reassigned based on the revelation of glaring lapses that were exposed by undercover tests.
In an instance, the TSA screeners could not find a fake bomb that had been taped to the back of an undercover agent when they patted him down after he had activated an alarm at a checkpoint.
This has come as a major embarrassment to the TSA and efforts are on to rectify the gaps to ensure that the checking at airports are foolproof.
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