DHS urged to approve standards for private airport screeners

[The Straight Story]

DHS urged to approve standards for private airport screeners

By Jonathan Marino
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The Transportation Security Administration has not completed performance standards for its private screeners, the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued Monday.

Only after the agency establishes criteria by which the Homeland Security Department can judge screeners will it be possible to hold individual airports responsible for negligence by a contractor, GAO said. The Homeland Security Department shares some of the burden for not having completed the criteria, the report (GAO-06-166) stated.

As part of its Screening Partnership Program, which allows airports to apply to use private screeners in place of federal ones, TSA developed performance goals for private screeners in the areas of security, customer service, management and cost. But DHS still must approve the draft, GAO said.

GAO called on DHS and TSA to work together to finalize the goals. DHS generally agreed with that recommendation.

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=33972&dcn=todaysnews

Here's a goal:
DO YOUR FREAKING JOB RIGHT :)

[bullimiami]

1. and we will be right back to where we were before sept 11.

this is nothing that should be done 'for profit'. TSA makes sense it just needs to be done right, not the corrupt crony republican way.

[The Straight Story]

2. It is amazing how easily they (* and crew) can screw up things

Scary.

[MadMaddie]

3. So 5-6 years after 9/11 we are back where we started..

I am seriously starting to think...once the Dems get Congress and the Senate in 06 and then the Presidency in 08...the country will basically have come full circle to the starting line again 09/10...and the Dems will have to look at every agency..every so called security measure that the Repugs have implemented and have to start from scratch...it's a damn shame...