Report: Airport Screeners Lack Training

WASHINGTON -- A congressional report released Monday criticized the Transportation Security Administration for failing to come up with a standard to measure the quality of its airport screeners and for not providing them the training they were promised.
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The TSA's federal security directors, who are in charge of airport security, say that it's been difficult to give the screeners refresher training because most of it is delivered over the Internet. As of October, only 109 airports out of 450 had high-speed access, leaving 45 percent of TSA's work force unconnected to the agency's online training, the report said.

TSA said in a statement that it has asked Congress for $174 million for high-speed internet connectivity so more airports have access to its online learning center.

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a pot of water to make a cup of tea?

Anyone who has flown since 9/11 know that nothing has changed and the same lousy screeners with the same lousy training are still working. They just have new patches on their shirts.

Cheap, untrained workers -- yep that's making flying safer.

with these yahoos, then they must know when an attack is going to occur or not and who is targeted. Or perhaps they are simply stupid.