TSA Security Notebook Left In Passengers Luggage Traveler Found It After Flight From Kona TheHawaiiChannel.com POSTED: 4:34 pm HST October 25, 2006 UPDATED: 6:32 am HST October 26, 2006 HONOLULU -- A Transportation Security Administration employee mistakenly left a notebook with sensitive security information in a checked piece of luggage at Kona International Airport, KITV has learned. The notebook full of records from an explosive detection machine in Kona ended up in a passenger's duffle bag on Oahu. TSA is investigating the mishap. "I went into my bag this morning, opened it up, just like this, and I found a three-ring binder that I did not recognize," traveler Joe Langer said. Langer showed KITV the binder, labeled "Explosive Trace Detection" that he found in his bag. "It just took me by surprise, right away, and I read 'TSA' on there and 'sensitive security information for official use only,' and I knew it didn't belong in my bag," he said. Langer left Kona International Airport at mid-afternoon on Tuesday for a flight home on Hawaiian Airlines to Oahu after a business trip to help assess damage from the earthquake. The notebook contained calibration records from a machine in Kona. It's the type of machine TSA screeners use to search luggage for explosives and other prohibited material. "It makes me think, 'Hey, what kind of people do we have working at TSA?' Where they just accidentally leave this in a bag?" Langer said. The book is a "... sensitive document that requires special handling..." TSA spokesman Nico Melendez told KITV. "... We are looking into the facts of how this fumble occurred." "It doesn't make me feel good. It doesn't give me a warm fuzzy, if they can't even keep track of this stuff," Langer said. Inside the notebook KITV found testing results from last month and part of this month from the screening machine that checks for TNT and other compounds. "While the misplacement of the book is a serious issue, its loss does not create a security vulnerability," Melendez said. Langer spent 23 years in the Navy. "Military background tells me when you have stuff like this, it's supposed to be safeguarded, and it's locked up when it's not in use," he said. Langer returned the notebook to Honolulu's TSA office shortly after speaking to KITV. Copyright 2006 by TheHawaiiChannel. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> com All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
