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Newark Airport security shock <http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/newark_airport_security_shock_fIreU A7KYPTbLbTs9hIP5M> By JEANE MacINTOSH Last Updated: 9:38 AM, April 9, 2011 Posted: 1:38 AM, April 9, 2011 <http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/newark_airport_security_shock_fIreU A7KYPTbLbTs9hIP5M#comments_block> Comments: 0 More <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=nypost> <http://www.newyorkpost.com/f/print/news/local/newark_airport_security_shock _fIreUA7KYPTbLbTs9hIP5M> http://www.newyorkpost.com/rw/SysConfig/WebPortal/nypost/images/icon_print.g ifPrint Even the TSA's top brass doesn't think Newark Airport is safe! After a slew of recent embarrassing security screwups -- including a dead dog being loaded, unscreened, onto a jet -- managers at the busy New Jersey airport admitted in a stunning new report that safety has been going downhill for years. "The performance of the TSA here at Newark Liberty International Airport has been on a gradual decline," the internal report states. And high-profile lapses have "produced a lack of faith in our ability to provide world-class security." The document was circulated Thursday during two meetings between Transportation Security Administration <http://www.newyorkpost.com/t/Transportation_Security_Administration> terminal managers, supervisors and execs, according to The Star-Ledger of New Jersey, which obtained a copy of the report. The meetings were led by Jim Blair, a senior TSA official who oversees airports in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Blair visited Newark Airport in February after the facility racked up at least six security breaches in a six-week period starting Jan. 2. In addition to the dead dog debacle -- the pooch was loaded onto a Continental plane in February -- the report also cited incidents of passengers going unchecked onto planes with knives. The TSA's Virginia-based Office of Inspection last month sent a team to evaluate the airport for the first time in its history, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis confirmed yesterday. In a statement, Davis said that the TSA managers "have taken ownership for these issues" and are "committed" to making "any changes necessary." According to the report, understaffing, poor communication, poorly designed checkpoints, lack of training hours and "complacency and lack of focus" have contributed to the drop in safety standards. Some Newark employees blamed the airport's shortcomings on Barbara Bonn Powell, Newark's federal security director. Davis said Powell will remain in charge of Newark's TSA operations. Turbulent times A scathing internal TSA report on lax safety at Newark Liberty Airport blamed "diminished" security on: * Complacency and lack of focus * Lack of direction and guidance * Poor checkpoint design * Understaffing and lack of training time * Insufficient flow of communications Read more: <http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/newark_airport_security_shock_fIreUA7KYP TbLbTs9hIP5M#ixzz1J3YC12uE> http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/newark_airport_security_shock_fIreUA7KYPT bLbTs9hIP5M#ixzz1J3YC12uE [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: [email protected] 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.shtmlYahoo! 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: [email protected] [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/
