GAO investigators: Some student pilots in U.S. illegally
Source: CNN
Some foreign students who enroll and graduate from U.S. flight schools are in the U.S. illegally, despite extensive post-9/11 efforts to vet student pilots, congressional investigators said Wednesday.
Stephen Lord, an investigative chief with the Government Accountability Office, declined to say how many student pilots he found to be wrongly in the country, saying that the Transportation Security Administration had deemed the number to be "sensitive security information."
But, he said, his study showed "weaknesses" in the TSA's vetting process that need to be fixed.
The holes are "extremely disturbing," House Homeland Security subcommittee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/18/us/gao-illegal-pilots/index.html
In 2008, ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross reported: "9/11 Redux: 'Thousands of Aliens' in U.S. Flight Schools Illegally"
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The FAA issues pilot and student pilot licenses. If Homeland Security is too stupid to connect the FAA database to the Home Land Security database and check it often, then there are some people in Home Land Security who should be fired. Neither database can have that many names for a modern computer to spot a problem in less than a minute, if not a second.
