Saturday, October 28, 2006
You're in good hands with anybody but the Transportation Security Administration
And the LA Times has the story of how carefully the TSA now checks up on airline cargo employees. If this doesn't make you take the train, nothing will.
The Transportation Security Administration has rolled back the deadlines for criminal-background checks for tens of thousands of airline workers who handle cargo loaded onto passenger airplanes, saying the industry cannot meet the timetables.Now this is more likely to result in stolen valuables than bombs planted but I doubt you will consider the difference if either one happens to you. Still you have to love the many new and exciting ways the Republicans continue to demonstrate their incompetence more than 5 years after the World Trade Center tragedy.
"TSA has concluded that the regulated community will be unable to meet some deadlines in the air cargo final rule because of the large number of employees and agents subject to the requirements," the agency said in a notice published this week.
The rules were originally slated to go into effect from Oct . 23 to Dec. 1. They require background checks and security training for an estimated 50,000 workers employed by the airlines or by airline contractors handling cargo, said TSA spokesman Darrin Kayser.
Under the new timetables, several deadlines have been pushed back as far as mid-2007. The agency also will open the regulation to a new round of public comment, which could lead to more changes.
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