Rebecca Ruiz
MSNBC
May 10, 2012
A Congressional report released today accuses the Transportation Security Administration of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on screening technology and equipment that was not efficiently deployed at airports.
The report blasted the TSA for purchasing more explosive trace detectors (ETD) than necessary in order to receive a bulk discount and for warehousing 35 percent of security equipment for more than one year, among other claims.
The total value of equipment in storage is an estimated $184 million. The excessive number of ETD machines, which cost $30,000 each, amounted to nearly $44 million. The delay in deploying stored screening equipment resulted in depreciation estimated at $23 million.
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I saw this article on the Huffington Post. The sheep in the comment section were upset that these were not being used to keep us safe from AL-CIA-DUH. You just cant make this up. Off Topic. Was driving to work this morning and heard a caller call in to the John Gambling show. They were talking about Andrew Bribarts? untimely death. The caller said she had to go to Infowars.com to get the latest news that the( whore) media wont cover. John Gambling was agreeing that Obamas goons could have murdered him.
Michael Chertoff — one tenth of the one per cent. Book ‘ím, Dan-o.
Burn it. It is all worthless. We do not need the TSA.