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July 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Kerwin Wilson, the Transportation Security Administration official who
oversees the flight school screening program, said he did not know whether
an American on the no-fly list has actually undergone flight training in the
US in the past 10 years. He added that once someone receives a flight
certificate, he or she is screened against other criminal and terrorism
databases regularly. Wilson also cautioned that putting US citizens through
these additional security checks could cost more money.
This did not allay the concerns of lawmakers.
Rogers, chairman of the subcommittee that held Wednesday’s hearing, said he
plans to raise this with the head of the TSA, and if the agency can’t fix
the problem, he plans to introduce legislation that would.
The TSA said it does not have the authority to do background checks on US
citizens who want to train at flight schools unless the person already has a
certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration.
“In compliance with its statutory authority, TSA conducts background
checks for foreign flight school applicants seeking training at FAA
certified flight instruction schools and vets FAA certified individuals on a
continuous basis,” TSA spokesman David Castelveter said.
As it is, the TSA’s program to screen foreigners has its own security
loopholes, according to the Government Accountability Office, a
congressional watchdog agency.
The TSA screening program does not automatically determine whether a
prospective flight student is in the US legally, said Stephen Lord, who
heads GAO’s homeland security and justice programs. In 2010, law enforcement
investigated a flight school in the Boston area and found that eight people
at the school approved for flight training by TSA were in the country
illegally, and 17 more had stayed in the country longer than they were
allowed, Lord told lawmakers. The owner of the flight school was in the
country illegally as well.
The TSA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have agreed to share more
information with each other, officials from those agencies said.
Source: AP
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