This does not inspire confidence in government. The agency created to protect the homeland in the wake of the 9/11 attack has hired people on the watch list. How tough is it for the human resources department at DHS to check applicants against the terrorist watch list? Why didn't the FBI give them a heads up?
FBI: Hey DHS, we were checking out someone on the terrorist watch list and discovered he was working as a screener at TSA. What's up with that?
DHS: What? Again? I'll have a chat with Muhammad down in HR.
FBI: Yeah, about Muhammad in HR...
The Department of Homeland Security comprises Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the US Border Patrol. These agencies are responsible for keeping the wrong people out of the country or off our airplanes. And they have failed to keep the wrong people out of the department! If 72 people on the terrorist watch list infiltrated the department, how many sneaked by Border Patrol, snookered ICE, or slipped past TSA?
Of course, it is possible in a department of 240,000 people that 72 of them shared names with known terrorists. But if it was just mistaken identity, why did the inspector general report it and Representative Stephen Lynch (D. Mass.) make an issue of it?
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