Who Screens Screeners Adds to TSA Concerns After Arrests in L.A.
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The arrests of U.S. Transportation Security Administration employees on charges of accepting bribes from drug-smugglers is escalating calls from Republicans to overhaul an agency under fire for patting down young children and senior citizens.
“They’re hiring people without checking out their backgrounds,” Representative John Mica, a Florida Republican who heads the House transportation committee, said in an interview. “It’s almost every week. We’ve had another drug ring. We’ve had smuggling. We’ve had them stealing out of people’s luggage.”