TSA: Airport Workers With Alleged Terror Ties Aren’t Security Threats

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 24, 2015, TSA agents work at a security check-point at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says none of the 73 airport workers found to have unspecified ties to terrorism is actually a suspected terrorist or threat to aviation security.

The TSA’s deputy assistant administrator, Stacey Fitzmaurice, says a review concluded that they were not a threat. The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general earlier found that the airport workers had terrorism-related activity codes associated with their names in a government terrorism database, and called them a “potential transportation security threat.”

Fitzmaurice was testifying Tuesday at a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing.

She says her agency is still working on getting full access to the U.S. intelligence database used by Inspector General John Roth’s office to initially associate the workers with security concerns.

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  1. Hmmm…73 people with suspected terrorist ties and 95% of contraband getting through the checkpoints. And there is “no problem here, nothing to see”?

  2. Did they use the same company that vetted Snowden?

  3. Avatar for darcy darcy says:

    Isn’t he (Snowden) up for the Pulitzer Prize this year under the new category American Hero?

  4. What Snowden did was no different than electing to publish the Pentagon Papers.

  5. It’s an honor just to be nominated.

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