Whistleblower: TSA Deliberately Hiring Psychopaths, Criminals
Via Unix-Jedi, the TSA is expanding their thuggish reach -- going beyond checkpoints to search people entering the airport picking up passengers. (They apparently searched a woman's diaper bag -- a woman with two little children with her. Did they really think she was a terrorist with a bomb in her bag?)
A man came on Alex Jones' show and said he was with the TSA and told a little about the guys he alleges they're hiring -- that they're purposely hiring psychopaths. He remained anonymous, so there's no way to check out all of his claims.
There's a program in Rhode Island to take non-violent prisoners and put them into the system as TSA workers checking people, he claimed.
And he contends that they are made to hire the sociopaths and those with criminal records. Violent criminal records. Power-mad assholes. "We put them on the floor the first day," he contends.
Paul Joseph Watson writes at InfoWars:
Explaining how his job involved filing reports on other TSA screeners who didn't follow procedure, "Rob" expressed his alarm at the fact that criminals were being hired who exhibited the behavior of "psycopaths.""We have a program in the state of Rhode Island where we take prisoners who are out for non violent drug offenses and everything else - basically sociopaths - and we're sending them to a ten day course and getting them out in uniform out checking people," said the whistleblower.
Rob added that people who seemed professional were disregarded in favor of applicants who had criminal records and displayed a tendency for megalomania and power trip behavior.
"If they have a background and it's something like violence or abusing authority we put them right in, we put them guys on the floor first day," said Rob, adding he was also encouraged to hire Iraq war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
"It's all about the power trip, it's all about having people bug their eyes out at the public and getting the public conditioned to the fact that the police state is coming," he added, noting how TSA screeners were directed to stick their chests out and "eyeball people."
As a recent report by Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn highlighted, the fact that TSA agents are so routinely caught engaged in criminal behavior is by no means an aberration but stems "from TSA's hiring practices and insufficient use of background checks."
This includes the TSA's recruitment policy which, instead of representing an "intelligent risk-based organization," actually fails to conduct criminal and credit background checks on many of its employees while advertising "for employment at the Washington Reagan National Airport on pizza boxes and on advertisements above pumps at discount gas stations in the D.C. area."
The video:
Alex Jones? Are you kidding me? An anonymous source on Alex Jones says this?
I suppose we're going to give earnest heed to stories about Bat Boy next.
I know you loathe the TSA, Amy, but seriously, that does not mean we lend credibility to every fruitcake, serial liar and flako that comes down the pike, as long as they bad things about TSA.
Patrick at July 14, 2012 4:28 AM
Why shouldn't we trust this? We should trust the TSA's Blogger Bob more?
What about the 3,560,000 results for "TSA agents arrested"?
Jim P. at July 14, 2012 7:18 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/07/14/tsa_whistleblow.html#comment-3262161">comment from Jim P.I posted this -- noting the anonymous source -- because it doesn't seem off-base, based on the reading I do on the subject. I noted the anonymous source to caution people reading this that we don't have somebody on-the-record, which makes the information not very credible. I thought it better to post this -- with that caveat -- than to not post it at all.
Amy Alkon
at July 14, 2012 7:35 AM
Former Security industry professional here.
In order to get even a Security Guard license you must pass a background check and not be a felon.
Also no drug convictions of any sort.
deathbysnoosnoo at July 14, 2012 8:16 AM
Right, and no government or government agancy has EVER expempted itself from the rules they enforce on the privare sector, right?
lujlp at July 14, 2012 8:30 AM
TSA minimum qualifications reported by my local TSA are as follows: must pass a local, state, and federal level background check. Pre-employment drug screen. Must not be in default in $7500 or more in loans. Must not be delinquent in child support or taxes. U.S. Citizen. HS Diploma or GED. Other qualifications are preferred, but not required.
Granted, a psychopath or a person with the tendencies that were claimed to be desired might not have a criminal record, but I'm suspicious of the claim that they purposely hire people with violent criminal records.
Side note, one colleague was contracted to assist with the hiring of TSA agents in 2002. He noted that the applications were pretty bottom of the barrel in terms of who applied for the positions, but they still had to weed out the ones with criminal records and other no-nos and go from there.
X at July 14, 2012 9:07 AM
I'm suspicious of the claim that they purposely hire people with violent criminal records.
Nonviolent, X.
I usually would really hesistate to repeat anything on InfoWars, but Patrick's revulsion might make me rethink that.
Unix-Jedi at July 14, 2012 9:56 AM
Alex Jones and WND are like a stopped clock, inadvertantly right twice a day.
Janet C at July 14, 2012 10:29 AM
From the blog: And he contends that they are made to hire the sociopaths and those with criminal records. Violent criminal records. Power-mad assholes. "We put them on the floor the first day," he contends.
X at July 14, 2012 10:40 AM
TSA sent me a postcard awhile back wanting me to apply.
Wonder how they knew? Mooo-hahahaha!
Good benefits, actually, but I just don't like uniforms.
Pricklypear at July 14, 2012 10:42 AM
I see where I got confused Unix-Jedi. I still have issues with some of the claim, but I'm having link issues and haven't read the entire article either.
X at July 14, 2012 11:12 AM
TSA minimum qualifications reported by my local TSA are as follows:
You know 'x', there is a world of difference between the stated policy and what ACCTUALLY happens.
Dont belive me? Take a look at what the TSA states is allowable and go find hunndereds of stories of those allowable substances/medications, ect being confiscated or destroyed
lujlp at July 14, 2012 12:00 PM
Priest booted for sex abuse finds job at TSA
http://tsanewsblog.com/3253/news/priest-booted-for-sex-abuse-finds-job-at-tsa/
TSA agent, in uniform, charged with sexual assault
TSA News Blog (dot com) can't post more than one link per comment
TSA targets disabled 7-year-old, causes family to miss flight
Ditto above
TSA and child abuse — again
Ditto above
Yet another child abused by TSA
Ditto above
Why you must protect your children from TSA groping
Ditto above
Disabled lawyer settles lawsuit against TSA
Ditto above
These are just a few of many. Sorry, I get tired of posting the same stuff over and over and over, the evidence, the public records, the court testimony. It gets wearying.
I don't know if the TSA is "deliberately" hiring sociopaths, and I don't care. It doesn't matter. The result is what matters. And the result is that the TSA is now employing plenty of sociopaths, whether they are that way by nature or whether, as is more likely, they are that way because of the circumstance in which they find themselves:
In other words, Philip Zimbardo, Stanley Milgram, Solomon Asch. So fucking tired of posting and reposting this information.
Lisa Simeone at July 14, 2012 3:04 PM
lujlp: I don't diagree that government says one thing, does another. But I'm still not entirely convinced that they seek out convicted criminals. I think it's entirely plausible that the traits they seek in agents run the same gamut as those with sociopathic tendencies. And trust me, I have no confidence that they're getting the cream of the crop in terms of an applicant pool. A clean criminal record doesn't necessarily mean a person is law abiding. It might just mean they haven't been caught.
X at July 14, 2012 3:39 PM
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