-Caveat Lector- FYI - by the San Francisco Chronicle - April 9, 2002
Big government comes through again! I hope this article makes everyone feel safer. The federal government's highly vaunted plan to hire and train 30,000 screeners by November can't even get off the ground at the nation's big airports because the government has fumbled the application process for anyone who wants to be a screener. This means no one can yet apply to be a security screener at the nation's largest airports, including those in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta and Chicago. In fact, of the 429 commercial airports in the United States, only six have started posting job openings. LAX, which officials have said needs at least 1,000 passenger screeners and countless more baggage screeners, has not posted any openings. The government's plan is so fare behind schedule that frustrated job seekers say they've waited months for job applications that still haven't arrived. Airport experts say the application snafu casts doubt on whether the new Transportation Security Administration can meet a November 19 congressional deadline for mobilizing a federal security force at the nation's commercial airports. For example, the TSA has said it would dispatch what officials say will be highly trained, professional screeners to San Francisco International Airport as early as this month. But the TSA is not even accepting applications for jobs at SFO or at nearby Oakland or San Jose International Airports. Yet, even after the applications are in, the TSA still has to hire, background, train and deploy nearly 1,000 screeners each week to meet the November deadline for staffing the nation's airports. After undergoing an FBI background check that itself can take weeks, screeners must pass 40 hours of classroom training, then take another 60 hours of on-the-job training. "How can they hire when no one can apply?" said Lynda McBroom of Oakland. Screeners are often called the "Key line of defense" in the U.S. aviation system, because they are charged with stopping bombs, guns and knives from reaching jetliners via passengers or baggage. The Department of Transportation's inspector general has said one of the TSA's "major challeges" is hiring and training qualified screeners in a matter of months, expecially in light of repeated security lapses by privately employed airport screeners. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
