TSA's 50 Most Dangerous Officers: The Criminals Keeping Us "Safe"
Check out the list of the worst criminals, uh, respected TSA workers, supposedly keeping us safe at the airport from a list by Rep. Marsha Blackburn's office. About the findings:
The findings in this report provides a small snap shot detailing 50 crimes TSA employees have been arrested for since 2005. This report does not highlight every arrest that has been made since 2005. Collectively, the crimes these individuals have been arrested for illustrates a deepening problem within TSA's training and hiring practices that makes the United States more susceptible to a domestic threat.
Gotta love the list, spelling out which of the crimes these 50 TSA scumbags were guilty of. A veritable smorgasbord of crime:
Theft....15
Sex Crimes (Rape, Molestation, Prostitution)....8
Child Pornography....6
Assault....5
Bribery....3
Drugs....3
Illegal Firearms....3
Airport Screening Failures.....2
Murder....1
Conspiracy....1
Impersonating a Federal Officer....1
Driving Under the Influence....1
Here's a lovely one -- a child molester:
CHARLES BENNETT
Airport: Orlando International
Position: Transportation Security Officer Crime: Child Molestation
Date: February 1, 2010"A TSA agent has been arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor after police say he tried to keep a girl as a sex slave. Police arrested 57-year-old Charles Bennett of Winter Garden on Friday. A 15-year-old girl was the one who reported him to police.
According to reports from the Orange County Sheriff's Office and the Orange County Jail, the 15- year-old victim confided in her caregivers that Bennett had touched her inappropriately three years ago when she was 12. She says he also asked the young girl to be his "sex slave," an accusation investigators say Bennett admitted to in a written statement to police.
So, the TSA can't keep its work force devoid of creeps like these and we really believe they're doing anything other than giving our genitals a feel-up and, in too many cases, seeking an opportunity to lift our cash, iPods, and jewelry?
Isn't it wonderful how the very dregs of humanity get government jobs now, complete with pensions.
Patrick at June 28, 2013 1:24 AM
The pension part is especially disgusting.
Amy Alkon at June 28, 2013 5:15 AM
Luckily people like this can't possibly be hired to administer health care reform.
DrMaturin at June 28, 2013 6:32 AM
No, it's worse. The 16,000 IRS agents will all be well trained accountants with the 73,608 page tax code they can torture you with.
And I'm not going to put a sarcasm tag on that.
Jim P. at June 28, 2013 6:56 AM
Well, I for one feel SO much safer knowing that only the best and brightest, most dependable, law-abiding citizens are in the front lines of our national avaiation security...
Oh... shit.
Sabrina at June 28, 2013 11:01 AM
@ Luckily people like this can't possibly be hired to administer health care reform. -- DrMaturin at June 28, 2013 6:32 AM
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I've long joked that the preventative screening plans developed under ObamaCare got mixed up with the TSA's preventative screening plans. Which is why more colonoscipies are done at airports than at hospitals.
Trust at June 28, 2013 11:59 AM
I'm appalled at he bigotry against rehabilitated offenders shown in this post and comments.
I think I just found our next great Civil Rights Movement.
(I accidentally mistyped 1 letter in the verification word, and now I think people should drive to work in cats.)
dee nile at June 28, 2013 1:31 PM
I resent paying my part for the TSA. The airlines should have to pay for their own security. One could then choose their airline accordingly: a cheap no-grope ticket where you pays your money and takes your chances; or if you prefer, a ticket with pre-paid professional gynecological/proctological exams included in the ticket price. Let people decide what risks they are willing to assume.
I don't think we should be paying for air traffic controllers either-it is a cost of doing business for the airlines, not the taxpayer. A subsidy, if you will, for the Airlines.
A lot of taxpayers in this country never board a plane and never will. Count me in that number. My people have to get married and buried without the pleasure of my company these days.
bmused at June 28, 2013 2:36 PM
Your consent to be searched, by the way, is also in your contract when you purchased the ticket.
Patrick at June 28, 2013 3:52 PM
Not apologizing for or defending these losers, but correlation is not causation. How does the ratio of TSA offenders to all TSA personnel compare to society?
Congress and the White House are the disease, TSA is just a symptom.
DaveG at June 28, 2013 5:14 PM
Funny, I never see contracts or terms of service posted anywhere in airports Partick.
lujlp at June 28, 2013 5:55 PM
Please tell me why we need the TSA after United Flight 93 crashed.
Jim P. at June 28, 2013 7:42 PM
Watch out Jim, asking such innocuos questions of Patrick might enrage him to the point he considers you dead to him
lujlp at June 28, 2013 10:12 PM
Patrick might enrage him to the point he considers you dead to him
... and this would be bad, why?
dee nile at June 29, 2013 3:30 AM
50 criminals out of how many employees? What's the percentage of TSA criminals compared to the general population?
NicoleK at June 29, 2013 10:46 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/06/tsas-50-most-da.html#comment-3776077">comment from NicoleKThe point is that the people supposedly protecting us can't even protect themselves from hiring the criminal. And I have no idea the percentage of TSA criminals compared to the gen pop but that's really a silly question. We don't expect the FBI to be filled with a proportionate percentage of criminals. Why should we allow that in the TSA? (Not that we have much of a say in government anymore; we only retain the illusion that we do.)
Amy Alkon
at June 29, 2013 11:07 AM
The point is that the people supposedly protecting us can't even protect themselves from hiring the criminal.
Assumes they have a desire to avoid hiring criminals. Sovereign immunity affords them all the "protection" they could possibly want.
dee nile at June 29, 2013 2:53 PM
I'm appalled at he bigotry against rehabilitated offenders shown in this post and comments.
Are you also appalled at the number of states that don'r restore an ex-cons rights to vote?
DrCos at June 29, 2013 3:25 PM
Amy,
I admit I dropped the ball on that one. I concede that the FBI most likely has a much lower felon ratio, which if true reveals the irony that this findings are the result not of the expected incompetence but of indifference - the TSA doesn't believe the lie they're selling us or they would hire FBI-caliber agents, which I think is what Israel does.
Israelis are smart people. If what TSA does is bullshit - and it is - then how does their system add value? I recall scanners and such at airports long before 9/11.
DaveG at July 1, 2013 8:59 AM
How is it that only one was charged with impersonating a federal officer? I thought that would apply to all of them.
Factual Interjection at July 1, 2013 1:25 PM
Somehow Patrick becomes mute once you ask a fact based question of him.
Jim P. at July 1, 2013 8:39 PM
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