TSA Fails 95 Percent Of Airport Security Tests Conducted By Homeland Security

TSA Fails 95 Percent Of Airport Security Tests Conducted By Homeland Security: Report:
"As thorough as the Transportation Security Administration screeners may be as they rifle through your belongings, the agency isn’t performing where it counts.
In a series of trials, the Department of Homeland Security was able to smuggle fake explosives, weapons and other contraband past airport screeners in major cities across the country, according to ABC News.
Officials briefed on the Homeland Security Inspector General’s investigation told the station that the TSA failed 67 out of 70 tests conducted by the department’s Red Teams — undercover passengers tasked with identifying weaknesses in the screening process, NJ.com reports.
During the tests, DHS agents each tried to bring a banned item past TSA screeners. 
They succeeded 95 percent of the time.
The internal investigation was designed to find the TSA’s most egregious vulnerabilities.
The TSA has said Red Team agents are “super terrorists” who “push the boundaries of our people, processes, and technology,” but DHS officials told ABC the test results were frustrating at the very least..."